Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1915 — Legislative Notes. [ARTICLE]

Legislative Notes.

Governor Ralston has, signed Representative W. L. Wood’s subsidy election measure and railroad promoters will find it more difficult hereafter to get such subsidy voted. Good. - Indiana will soon have a new printing law. About the only change was the addition of classes, there now being nine, and a contract can be made for any one of those classes. ' • " Under the new apportionment law, as we understand it was passed, Jasper county is placed with Benton for represetnative, and White county, with which we are now joined, goes to Tippecanoe. Benton was formerly with Tippecanoe. Woman's suffrage was marked off the slate by the action of the house on Thursday afternoon. A test of strength came when a resolution was offered instructing the committee to report out this much discussed measure, and. when the vote was counted the resolution was lost. Woman’s suffrage is still sleeping in committee and there will likely remain until long after the session ends.

The house Friday turned down the bill to appropriate $50,000 to purchase the, old, capitol building and groundsat Corydon, by a vote of 48 to 42, The bill had passed the senate with little opposition. Representative Benz, of Perry and Crawford counties, who led the opposition to the bill in the house, used almost the same words as The Dem-, ocrat previously used in opposition to the measure, characterizing it as a “graft” to give the people of Harrison county a new court house free of cost. The 1915 session of the Indiana legislature closed Monday night. The record of the legislature as a whole has been very good indeed, and the house especially is deserv-

ing of much credit for • killing most of the vicious measures which passed the senate, and for its record of economy. Except where emergency clauses were carried, the measures passed will not become laws until they are published and declared in force by proclamation. This will probably be some time next month, as not a great number of laws were passed and none of them are very lengthy. Hotel keepers w’ant to keep a weather eye upon the laundry department of their hostelrys hereafter. The legislature has passed a law, which was signed by the 'governor Monday, requiring that bed sheets in hotels be 99 inches long and 81 inches wide. Should they be made the legal size and the goods would shrink a trifle, the landlords could be haled into court and fined for\ failure to comply with the law. If this regulation business keeps on it will soon be so that the size of a pocket handkerchief one carries will be regulated by statute, also the quality and color of the socks one wears.