Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1919 — RESOLUTION WINS IN STATE SENATE [ARTICLE]

RESOLUTION WINS IN STATE SENATE

Upper House Votes to Abolish Clerk of Supreme Court. ■ ■ ■ 1 —— # LEGISLATURE TO FILL POST Measure Giving Governor Power to Veto Separate Appropriation Bills Passed—Suffrage Act Up to Goodrich. Indianapolis, Feb. 7.—The senate of the Indiana state legislature passed the resolution to abolish the office of the clerk of the supreme court 31 to 11. The resolution, which is one of the Republican platform measures, originally provided that the government would select the clerk but now places the power In the hand* of the legislature to provide the method of selection. Another of the platform measures giving the governor power to veto separate appropriation bills, was passed by the senators 30 to 12. Senator Allredge introduced a measure providing for a new registration system. The system provides for the registration by precincts to be held on primary dHy and on the twenty-ninth day before election. Registered voters are to be given a card, similar to a draft card, which entitles them to permanent registration providing they do not move from the residence that Is registered. The feature of the morning’s session In the house was the contesting of the majority report of the committee which the memorial day measure, which would prohibit all sports, baseball games and horse races, where an admission is charged on May 30 nnd fixing a fine on violators of the proposed law. The majority report which for passage of the bill and the minority report for indefinite postponement. The majority report was sustained by the representatives by a vote of 75 to 19. The legislature has gone on record in favor of presidential suffrage for women of Indiana. The senate passed. 44 to 3, the Johnson suffrage bill, which was passed, 90 to 3, by the housa January 24. The measure now goes to Governor Goodrich and he is expected to sign it, nnd, If he does, Indiana women will cast ballots for presidential electors at the next national Election. The passage of the measure was preceded by debute for nnd against the bill and there was no chance for the suffrage workers on the sidelines not to know what was going on, as was the case when the bill was passed by the house. Senator Kline, Republican, of Huntington, and Senators Erakine of Vincennes and Haggerty of South Bend, Democrats, voted against the measure. SAeuators Glaser, McCullough and Furnas were absent.

By a vote of 48 to 46 the house adopted the highways commission bill as originally drawn, which would place all money derived from automobile license fees in the hands of the proposed commission. Chapter of Misfortunes. Indianapolis, Feb. 7.—Following the death of her husband and one child, the burning of her home and all her ►worldly possessions, Mrs. Mary Riggins from Oklahoma, lost three of her four surviving children in Indianapolis. and found two of them only to learn one of the three was missing from the other two. The police helped her through her difficulties. The woman’s husband died of influenza. One of the five clyldren died of the same disease. Shortly afterward the family home was burned. Taking her four children Mrs. Riggins sturted for her old home in Kentucky. She arrived in Indianapolis about midnight, aud, unable to get a train until the next day, went to a rooming house. In the morning she took a five-year-old child and left the rooms she had engaged to get something to eat for the family. When she attempted to return she found she was lost and did not know which way to turn. She appeared to the police. An automobile was placed at her disposal and two policemen spent the greater part of a day canvassing the rooming houses of the city. Late in the afternoon the hotel owner called the police .station and said one of the three children was gone. Mrs. Riggins wus taken to the hotel. She found her fourteen-year-old son and nine-months-old baby, I*ut her seven-year-old daughter was the one who had wandered away looking for her mother. The police found the girl and aasigne*?! a man to stay with the family and keep its ''members together until all were on the train headed for Kentucky.