Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1915 — Legislative Notes. [ARTICLE]

Legislative Notes.

Senator Neal’s eugenics bill, which would have required Dan Cupid to become a licensed physician in Indiana. was defeated in the lower house of the legislature Tuesday afternoon by a vote of 52 to 36. It was the second test in the lower branch for the measure. Ten days before it had failed to pass for lack of a constitutional majority, but the fact that the ayes exceeded the noes on the first vote permitted a reconsideration. Representative W. L. Wood’s bill relating to subsidy elections was passed in the house Monday by a vote of 73 to 3, and is now pending in the senate. Only a little more than one week remains of the 1915 session of the Indiana legislature. Up to yesterday morning there had been 412 bills introduced in the senate and 573 in the house. Only a very small number of bills. have as yet 'passed both houses and been signed by the governor. ‘

By a vote of U 1 to 2, the house killed the Bell finance bill Wednesday afternoon. This bill applied to Indianapolis only' and was intended to help Mayor Bell out of a hole he had gotten into through his own shortsightedness: Governor Ralston, T o;n Taggart, and the entire democratic machine was legging for the passage of the bill, arid -had very easily gotten it through the senate, v hich seems to be but a tool of this machine. The house is apparently the safety-valve of this session of the •legislature and to it will be due, for most part, whatever beneficial legislation, is enacted. Senator 0. A. .McCormick of North Judson. chairman of the legislative reapportionment 'committee, introduced a new senatorial reappor-tion-nient bill in the senate Thursday v-hic'h places Jasper county with Bake, Newton and Porter, and also gives Lake two senators of its own, Starke county, now with Jasper. Newton and White, is placed with Laporte county, while White is placed with Carroll and Pulaski.

The American merchant vessel Carib, was sunk by a mine off the coast of Germany Tuesday. It. was loaded/ with -1.0(30. bales of cotton and left Charleston January 22 for Bremen, Germany. It is claimed in a dispatch from Berlin that the Carib was not using the route laid down in German marine instructions. The crew of thirty men were saved.