Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1875 — The Changes made in the School Law by the Last Legislature. [ARTICLE]

The Changes made in the School Law by the Last Legislature.

• Spinner, TJ. S. Treasurer, has sent in , hW resignation to take effect on July Ist. John 0. Netr, of Indianapolis, has been appointed to take his place. There are forty-three of the Indiana Senators and Representatives who are accused of running off with statutes loaned to them lor the session, to the amount of $lB each. There is some reform for you. As near as can be ascertained, about | twenty women are making all the fuss throughout the United States about Woman’s rights, cress reform and kindred social topics. This is a remarkable illustration of woman’s power. Between this date and the first of July, says the South Bend Tribune, the ! government will disburse $74,000,000 | gold, the greatest amount for the same i time ever paid out by our government. [ This ought to make times flush. Story, of the Chicago Times, has been : sentenced to ten days imprisonment in the I Cook county jail, for publishing an arti [ cle reflecting on the private clia r aeter of [ some jurymen, tbe judge terming it a I contempt of Court. What are these l United States coming to, anyhow? The recent Legislature has at last found a defender. The Rensselaer Uni i on comes to its defense right nobly. | Well, Horace will defend ulmost anything to be a little different from other people. In his heart lie knows that it done less : for the money received and the time ! employed than any Legislature Indiana j has had for years.— Winamac Rcpubli- [ can Ohio Republicans at Washington en- ! tertain strong hopes that ex-Senator | Wade will yield to what seems to be the | unauimous desire of his party, and sacriI fice his personal feelings fer public reasons I and consent to accept the Republican [ nomination for Governor of Ohio. Hi* 1 main objection to accepting the candidacy j, is that he will have to live in Columbus, t With Mr. Wade as a candidate, the Re- \ publicans believe they can carry the I State by a handsome majority. Mr. P. T. Barnum, the great show- , man, has massed all of his shows into a | chartered corporation known as the ’ C P. I T. Barnum Universal Exposition ComI pany,” with an authorized capital of one I million dollars. Barnum has in his enif ploy 1,800 men women and children, and I uses 750 horses. Has a new tent 500 t feet long and 300 feet broad, with a seatI ing capacity of 15,000. During the coming summer Mr. Barnum will visit, with his Exposition Company, all the larger cities of the Eastern, Middle and Western States. Lnporte had a genuine sensation yesI terday when Mrs. A. P. Andrew Jr., ] wife of a pr o nii»*ent banker of that city | gave birth to triplets. Weight four, ; three and four pounds respectively, with good lungs as the neighbors know, i Mother and children doing finely and a \ grand christening party is next in order. | Mrs. Andrew,nee Miss Helen M. Merrill, I is well known by many of our towns | people, who formerly resided in La Porte; I and will be remembered as being the [ most beautiful and accomplished of all La Porte’s fair daughters. We are sure others join us in giving all concerned our heartiest congratulations.— Elkhart Daily Observer. A little fact in connection with the new fee aud salary law may postpone the time of its taking effect for a considerable period. It contains no emergency clause, and such being the case it will not take effect until the governor has no- , tice of the receipt of the acts of the r~ general assembly by the clerk of every county in the State. That is to say, the acts must first be printed and distributed, a'Dd when the governor has notice of their receipt by the last county in the State, the fee and salary law will take effect and not till then. As the law cuts the fees of connty clerks in a way they despise, it is thought possible some of them may manage to be a long time in acknowledging receipt of the acts. White men are very uncertain.— lndianapolis Journal.

By Senate act 118 the following important changes are made in the school law: 1. The County Superintendent will be appointed by the County Commissioners in June. 2. The compensation of County Superintendents is reduced to three dollars per day. 3. Applicants for license are required to pay alee of one dollar for examination, and no per diem can be charged for time spent in such examination. 4. The number of days allowed County Superintendents for visiting schools is to be determined by the Board of Commissioners, provided the number of days so allowed shall not be more than dhe-half the number of schools in the county. 5. The number of days allowed for office work cannot exceed twenty. The act approved March 11th, 1875, so amends the act approved March Btb, 1873, as to provide that persons living outside the incorporated towns or cities may send their children to the schools of incorporated towua and cities by the payment of tuition, and not have their property subjected to taxation for school purposes in such clues or towns as provided by the old law. The act approved March 9, 1875, so amends the law of 1865 as U> provide • that when a person proceeds to cut and remove, or threatens to cut and remove timber that grow upon any congressional school lauds go as to decrease the value of

the lands, the trustee of the township may have power to commence ami maintain suit to restrain and enjoin the cutting of such timber. Another new act provides for the reorganization of school boards, and election by the common council in June of each year instead of April, as heretofore. The Rensselaer Union commends the late Legislature, and says it was not composed of “Salary grabbers.” Now, Horace, don’t. But will you enlighten an ignorant public and tell them the difference between twedledee and twedledutn. Or in other words, how can you defend the late Legislature for taking their full SB.OO per day and cutting down the pay of everybody else. If it was wrong in a previous Legislature to consider their time worth SB.OO per day, why was it not wrong in this one. — Especially when the latter pledged themselves to take less. If you are honest, hit your friends as well as your enemies when they do wrong.— Winamac Republican. A correspondent from Winamac to the Logansport Daily Star of Tuesday says: Yesterday the ice gorge in the river above town broke loose, and came down with a tremendous rush, carrying the bridge away across the river, and, we understand, it has damaged the railroad bridge some, but not to any serious extent, we think, for the trains are running regularly this morning. The citizens have petitioned the auditor to call the commissioners together to-day and see what cun be done about getting a new bridge. The loss to this town will -be great if something is not done soon, as a greater portion of the business comes over that bridge.