Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 6, Hammond, Lake County, 8 March 1913 — Page 8
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THE TIMES. March 8, 1913.
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PASSAGE OF BILL IS OUTRAGE
of the counties or townships would And their council or advisor boards In ses
sion all the year, but It Is possible un
der this bill. It only shows the lack
of care that Is taken by a legislature
to find out what a bill means before It i
is passed. . -
BUSINESS HEADS AND STATE SENATE COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING "WHY WOMEN G9 WRONG."
TIMES BUREAU AT THE STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind.r March 8. The senate has passed a bill that would make it possible for county councils and townships advisory boards to practic
ally bankrupt every county and town
ship In the state. Under the present ', free to ker-open
law the salaries of members of the .designated for those holidays.
LEGISLATUP-E IS
ON ITS LAST LEGS
(Continued Trom Pw - When it was found that the bill would probably be a dead one, a plan
was started in the Senate to amend the
"Discovery Day" bill pasea by . the House. This bill proposed to mke October 12 a legal holiday in honor of the discovery of America, by Columbus. The scheme in the Senate, fostered by Fleming- and Senator Stotsenburg, was to amend the Discovery Day bill so as to make Discovery Day, Washington's birthday, 'Lincoln's birthday. Labor Day
and all possible legal holidays come on ( Sundays. This would leave the saloons j
on the days now
county council run from $10 to $10 a year, according to population of the county. The average, probably would be ,$15 a year. The Tarling bill. Just passed, proposes to give each member of the county council $3 a day for every day he actually attends the countycouncil sessions. There is no limit on' the number of days that the "county council may remain in session. This would mean 12 a day for the
four members of a county, council,
When this scheme was suggested it
did not take 'long for It to developej that such h thing would not be con-'j siilered or countenanced for one mo-j ment. However, there was 81,111 talk j
that it might be attempted today. " House action on the ' Stotsenburg bill for submitting a set of constitutional amendments to the people was . held up until today, because Representative Miedreich, of Evansvllle, said he wanted to insert an amendment that would
Counting 312 working days in the year, iprovide that, the legislature snouia noia
a double barreled session.- The tirsi thirtv davs, he says, would be devoted
it would mean that the county council i could cost the county a total of $3,6M more ttian it is costing under the pres- ' ent law. Multiply this sum by 92, the number of counties in the state, and yon have a grand total of $338,928 more than the county councils of the state could not cost than what they now cost This is a staggering figure,- but the figures for townships Is .even, worse. There are three members of the towntownship advisory board and they now receive $5 a year each. The Yarling bill proposes to pay them $3 a day for their time. The law makes no limit on tSie number of days that a session may list. Therefore, a township advisory board could remain in session for 312 days In a year, and the three members would receive a total of 9 a day. This would mean $2,793 a year for each township. There are 1.016 townships in . Indiana, and this would make a grand total of $2,837,683 a year that the township advisory boards could cost the taxpayers. It is not expected, of course, that any
exclusivelx to the introduction of bills. Then later another sixty day session would be held for the passage of bills, at which no bills would be Introduced without unanimous consent of the branch in which it was introduced. The House has adopted the Senate bill " authorizing the Governor to appoint a commission to make a thorough study of. the working hours of women
In the stato, and report "a bill to the next sesslo-n for a good law.
The House found that It would have to do something In the direction of legislation on the subject of women's work" days, so it passed , not only this bill but the one to make ten hours the maximum work day and fifty-four hours the maximum work week for women. Labor members fought this latter bill.
One of the Important bills passed by the Senate yesterday was the Biddle. road bill which, permits road taxes to
be worked out only up to $20 and that
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WITH A UAo HiUATlJNU- STUVJU.
in tne morning, or it you have a cold room m the house, you should have a Gas Heating Stove.
IT IS THE ONLY HEATER WHICH WILL RESPOND THE INSTANT THE BURNERS ARE LIGHTED. X i "111
it win Keep the bath room, bedroom or it- t
ting room comfortable at all times and will be useful for the cool davs of snrin? and summer
after the regular heating system has been closed I
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cash. This will put an. end to the road tax graft that has been "o common in
Indiana for many years. - The llouso passed the bill first, and it was expected that the House would today concur In a few amendments made by', the Senate., . :, Representative Keegan. the labor member from this city, made a bitter speech in which he denounced Bernard Korbly. Democratic state chairman for his activity as a lobbyist during the session. He charged that Korbly had worked against the woman labor bills
and that he had been pal dfor his work.
all In excess of $20 must be pal din He charged that the Democratic party
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was being ruined by such work. Korb- j make the race for police magistrate, ly denied afterward, that anything of i for the reason that the candidacy of the kind was tru. Keegan's speech j Adam Staehowitz Is satisfactory to her.
. Miss Brooks could not now have her name printed . on the ballots if: she
, was a sensation, because Keegan announced that he will be a candidate fQr the nomination for mayor at the com
ing city primaries.
Governor Ralston will receive bills
i passed . by the legislature up to mid
night tonight. Then he will close his j didates for the office of magistrate.
oglce and accept" only such bill therej after as he wishes to accept.' It Is likely that about all he will take after
wished, but she could become a candl-' the., railroad and-air line bridges are j
uate and those who wanted to voto for. also in danger from the threatening
Fear .is entertained that the Broad- . him he wouldn't have caught the mink, way sidewalks and road foundation Following the capture of the little may be destroyed by the waters. The fellow Strubel took ' the mink ' to the East I Gary-Miller road bridge, the Morris fur store, where " the furrier Hessville and Black Oak bridges and gave him $7.60 for if.,
ner could write in her name on the cltl- i waters, zen'.s ticket on which there are no can- i . . .
Miss Brooks Out of . It. j . But MIss Brooks does not desite this.
She wants the forces of reform to com-
tonight will be the appropriations bills , bine on Adam Staehowitz so that there
.and one or two others. Including the ; will be no question as to his election. I registration bill and the blue sky bill. J She wants to be eliminated from the I Already the members of the legisja- i cominsr election In every wav.
ture are busy packing up their books ' and other effects which tiey have (gathered - up during the session preparatory to shipping th stuff home
after -the session. Each man has a wooden box for .this purpose.
PLAN MAY MEET WITH APPROVAL fContlnvad from Par L)
rectors of the Indiana Society, is count-
led on to advance the plan to accept the Hammond invitation. The fact- should be bourn In mind that the Hammond proposal is a tentative one. ... The people of Hammond realize that
it would be a great honor for the city to entertain the Indiana Society of -Chicago but the also appreciate the monumental task that would be before them to make a success of the project with the many other delightrul summer outings of the society in the past in mind But Hammond hopes to have the chance to prove that it can do things up right and if the entertainment committee of the Indiana Society indicates that it is willing to consider the Hammond proposition the plan will be submitted In greater detail. TUESDAY PRIMARY DAY THERE (Continued from Para Lt
. "There are not many new developments in the' political situation except that the gang is being watched for tricks and the election boards in the various wards are going to be very strict in the observation of all of the election laws.
the members of the gang In. urging their candidacy was to divide the forces of reform. j , People - Decide. The coming prlmay election will either decide that Wst Hammond is to lead a quiet decent existence for four years or that It is to be In the public eye again as the most wicked city of its size in the whole world. West Hammond is going to decide whether or not it will remain clean and decent or whether lt will be the dumping ground for Hammond toughs. Miss Virginia Brooks is too busy with her suffrage agitation to pay much attention to West Hammond now. She has . announced that she will not
1908 THAW MAY HPEATEO Little Calumet Valley Is in Fear and Trembling at Approach of Warmth.
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HAV
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BEEN
DROWNED
LAST ACT
WAS
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HARBOR
What has become of Frank Sinklow-
r Indiana Harbor has the distinction of having been identified with the last official act of Tresident Taft before he stepped down and out to make room
ski, of 491S Northcote avenue, Eaft .for his successor President Woodrw Chicago, who has been missing since Wilson. This last act on ex-President yesterday morning. Taft's part was his signature to the The police have been asked to assist .Rivers and Harbors' appropriation, in the search for hrm which is being .which included Indiana Harbor to. the made by friends all over the region.'. texent' ..of $225,000. Two hundred There seems to be an idea that thousand of the appropriation was for SinKlowski may "have been drowned in break. water in the outer, harbor and the Calumet, river. Yesterday not long the balance for maintenance of the after. the man left" his home, the police canal as far as it has been completed, received a call - from the Chemical Whether the amendment went through Works to notifying them that a man,."'hich provided for the letting of the who- had been noticed a short while- contract for the entire Improvement before-beside the-river, near the One recommended by the board of enHundred and Fiftieth street bridge, had glneers,.to the :alue of over a mllljo.n suddenly disappeared. The man np- dollars. In one" lump contract, instead pcared to have, been fishing for frogs ot contracting for it at various - time and. some one who saw him one minute as the money was available, does not and a few minutes later looking again seem to be known to Indiana Harbor fa41el-to-se any sign of him, fancied persons who would be. naturally the
he. jnlght have been drowned. Thlsi"rst to learn of the doings of congress
morning w-hen" the police heard of the disappearance of Sinklowski they- remembered the incident of yesterday and thought Sinklowski and the frog fisher might have been one and the lanio . No trace of a body has been discovered near the spot where the man was seen fishing, but as the; river has Ice in it it is thought possible the man may have fallen through and his body bidden under .the ice. Sergeant Mike Gorman hjas been detailed on the case and is Investigating. Sinklowski was a man rajther advanced in years, and had a faijlly. - CATCHES MINK NEAR
GARY CITY HALL
regarding the harbor bill.
) The arrival of the thaw that began with today's warm weather is watched anxiously in the Little Calumet valley, and there are grave fears that it means a flood that' will be as disastrous as the famous overflow of 1908 when the river and marsh waters adjacent-to it attained a helghth- of more than 20 feet above Lake Michigan. May niite Dam. -A. P. Melton, city engineer of Gary and a member of the Burns' ditch commission, Is closely watching the thaw in and around Gary. Should the weathit become warmer Mr. Melton will instruct the police to blow up the Tolleston'Gun club dam and to dynamite any ice gorges between Hessville and Miller. Last March the flood waters submerged several square miles of land and caused many householders in South Gary to be driven from their homes. In the famous flood of 1908 many houses were washed! away. , Today Is Flood Anniversary. Today is the fifth anniversary of the high water mark of the 1908 flood. At that time the Gary police were called out to rescue men, women and chil
dren, when the waters rose suddenly Strubel, one of the city teamsters. If Try a La Vendor cigar. It's good.
While timber wolves may be at
largejln Porter county a real live mink was caugjht in the Pear of the Gary
city hall 'yesterday afternoon by Ted
E. GARY CEMETERY ; IS 75 YEARS OLD Just 75 years ago last Friday the first person was buried in the Blake cemetery a Mrs. Taylor, who lived where now is the Henry. Foreman farm. Jacob Blake, and a man named Watklns dug th3 ' grave. Valparaiso Vidette.
MVRDERKR DIES IN JAIL.' Dallas Bower, 25 years old, is dead In the Clark County Jail of dropsy and heart disease. Xov. 10, last, Bower killed his tsepmother at their home near New .Washington following her Into the kitchen and chopping her head with an ax. He Was weak mentally and had formed an aversion to the woman, who was his father's fourth wife. His trial had been set for March 14. -.'
over night.
Strubel didn't have his trusty dog with Advt