Ligonier Banner., Volume 54, Number 20B, Ligonier, Noble County, 23 July 1920 — Page 2
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It _is the understanding at Alblon that Dr.Jd. W. Morr has purchased the Demecrat of that town. and is soen o tuke possession. The doctor ought to make u good editor. . The Blue Sky bill passed by the Indiana house -of Trepresentatives wems to Have been lost in the senate but it may eémerge lin -~ a slightly mutilated form. : : Senator Hitchcok of Nebraska will open the national. campaign in Indiana for the democrats with a speech ‘lt Winona Chautauqua August 17. His subject will be the league of nations, A.bill has passed the lower house of the Indiana legislature which should became a law. It provides a 30 per cent increase in the pay of teachers ind. fixes a minimum of salary at $BOO a year. o | George H. White, former congressman from Marfetta, Ohio, has been chosen chairman of the national democratic committee, Homer Cumimnings, the old chairman asking to be rélieved from the responsibilities. S August Tth Gév. Cox will be official1y notified that he has been nominated {or president. Senator Harding received ~the surpriging information Thursday that he is the republican choice, Both will make thé customary speeches. T - - .
In a joint resolution inroduced by Senator -Beardsley, of Elkhart, President Wilson is asked to resore federal fuel control in Indiana o protect the people during the coming winter. Senator Beardsley evidently has little faith in the Goodrich administration to accomplish anything along the fuel control lines. - v ‘i e , William Jennings Bryan for the fourth ‘time is a candidate for president, having been named by the prohibitionists for that high office. It is understood he wil accpet. Just what excuse in advanced for a prohibitioy party is not made clear. We have constitutional prohibition secured through the old parties and 2 stringent enforcement law -has been held valid -by ghe highest court in the nation. The! party will net poll a very big vote at the commin election. -is s | Senator Harding has decided’ to stand on the general interpretation ol the Chicago platform and will not sanction the -peace treaty with the league of nations if it should come t 9 him es president after ratification by the senate. In other words he is opposed to the league of flations with o 1 without reservations and will make his campaign on this issue. Senator Harding was smpked- out "after the declaration of Gov.. Cox that he is for the treaty. of peace and the league of nations. Now that the issue is raised it can be fought out along this line in the campaign. .
Senator Cravens, democrat of Mad:son, has turned his data over to Federal District: Attorney VanNuys bearing on the relations of Gov. Goodrich with Indiana coal mines. Goodrich was charged with receiving favors from the Big Four railway compa#fy in securing cars to haul coal from a mine in which he is interested. Gov. Goodrich made a reply in the senate Monday in which he said he turned over his coal, mine stock to his son Pierre as a wedding present last Saturday. The questions arose when the coal regulation bill came up in the sepate for consideration. Answers to some of the questions propounded by. Senator Cravens were evaded by the governor. . Reduction in Assessments.
The State Tax Commission has reduced the assessment .of 218 corporations of millions of dollars. A million dollars was taken from the Merchants Heat and Light Co. and nearly a million from the Citizens Gas Co. both of Indianapolis. The Indiana & Michigan Electric company is' reduced from six to four million in round numbers. The Gary heat and Light company, the Indiana Power & \Wa‘er commany and the Central Indiana Gas company .were reduced a million each. The Indiana Pipe Line company is another big coporation favored with over a million reduction.
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Watson and McCray Assist Governor in Forcing Through Legalization .of Horizontal Tax Increases. : JOKER IS FOUND IN THE BILL Indianapolls, ‘lnd, July 20--The first week of the specizl gession of the Indlana legisiature dispelled all doubts that Governor Goodrich had ‘lost control of the Republican state machine. From the lUme the lawmakers took ‘their seats Monday afternoon, until the week's work was ended, there was no time that the hand of Goodrichism was not evident and one of the anomalies presented was the manner in which Republican leaders from Senctor Watson: on down played the governor's game la stemming anything that indicated a revolt against the “rubber-stamp” program : ' S
Governor Goodrich, in his message, was obliged to confess that the “best legislature in fifty years” had made numerous mistakes and he made tacit admission that he had summoned the &Xtra session in order to patch up the deficient administrative record. He admitted that the tax law, which he and the Republican organization had praised, was a fail ure and he asked the assembly to legalize the horizontal - " increases that had been declared invalid by the supreme court. - -Probably. no other feature of the tax law had been as unpopular as the arbitrary elevation of assessments by the state board of tax commissioners and it looked for a time as if the governor,would have trouble in pushing through his measure. The Indiana Federation of Farmers took .a decided stand agminst it and things looked dark, for many of the legislators: bailed from the agricultural districts. . .
Powerful aid, however, came at the beckon of Goodrich in the person of Warren T. McCray, Republican nom}nee for governor. McCray coincided with the governor's views and was instrumental in lining up the lawmakers for the measure. Two of his campaign managers, Lawrence Lyons of Brook and Fred B. Robinson of Indianapolis, worked openly about the state house in behalf of the legalization measure and many important conferences are said to have been held in the candidate’s headquarters in the Claypool hotel, :
As a result the bill went through the House with a Republican majority, the Democrats refusing to sanction the all too apparent attempt to override the opinion of the high court. : Goodrich’'s economy plea, which he uttered over the state during his campaign, was badly shattered by the introduction of administration bills calling for appropriations of nearly $2,000,000. In fact the session is being referred to as the two-mil-lion assembly and it has become evident that the finamces demanded will all but deplete the treasury before the year is out. L The Democrats came to the rescue of the session when.it was struggling with- eight different administration bills designed to zmend the slection and registration laws in order to provide for women voting and & more simplified form of registration. Evan B. Stotsenburg, formerly Democratic state attorney-general, revised the various bills into one comprehensible measurgy and it was adopted. :
. Joint bills - introduced by Senator Edward P. Elsner and J. L Axby, Democrats, designed to make women voters eligible to public ofite and jury service, were killed - without mercy by the Republicans “because they lacked merit at this time.” s An innocent-looking clause in the administration tax bill provides that bonds held on sewage disposal plants shall be non-taxable. It is now re called that the governor and some of his trusted lieutenants were stockkolders of a company which saddled a disposal plant on the city of Indianapolis for $170,000 shortly after one of the stockholders, Jet Moorman, had testified that it was not worth more than $15,000. Lot
Persons familiar with that deal, whi¢h has been the subject of much adverse comment here ever since it was consummated, are charging now that the proviso .exempting those bonds from taxation was inserted for the benefit of the administration clique who are holding the securities. Inasmuch as the bill was one of those printed by the governor before the session convened, it is thought that it was carefully planned and was inserted among a number of other items in order to camouflage it from the eyes of the legislators.
The Democratic members of the committee that considered the bill detected the ruse and refused to sign the report, but even after the Republicans had been warned they insisted on reporting the measure out without modification. :
The oufstanding development of the week shows all too clearly that Governor Goodrich has manipulated %he session according to his. ownideas and that the Republican leaders have been brought to a realization that in the campaign this fall they must make their races on & plaform defending Goodrichism. Kodak finishing Hieber Studio. l Sale == W DWW s coms » - I= =~ o/ ’gf ——
~ JOHNSON MUST BE SHOWN 1 Awalts Semator Harding’s Interpretatation of Chicage Platform with . : Interest : . i —— Gl ] ~ lln a letter to a political friend Senator Johnson says: = e If Senator Harding in his speech of acceptance of the Republican nomiostion for the presidency should “honestly frankly and courageousiy take his position in favor of the Americanism that is ours” he could “cheerfully and enthusiastically go forward with: the Republican party.” ‘lf, in his speech of acceptance “he should evade the issue,” Senator Johuson added, “a most difficult situation will be presented to men like myself.’ ."The Republican platform plank on the league of nations,” Senator Johison said, “was not such as | wouid have written, but nevertheless its language scemed 1o me capable of but one construction: ;
~“The big issue, which has engrossed me for so long, and which has become a part of my life, seems 10 have been met by “both platforms, the Republicans assuming the position I have taken from the first and the Democrats the contrary position in faver of the league. N ~ “Under these circumstances, it seems to me that men who viewed this overshadowing issue as 1 did could, consistently follow but one course, and thiat was the acceptance of the party opposing the ieague and opposition to the party approving it -~ *1 do not wish you to think for one instant that I am unmindful of the conditions which obtained at Chicago, or thé system which we saw, in its ugly nakedness, exemplified therw; nor do I forget the men whi répresenged that system. P ~ “Because of the big thing 1 am willing for a period to declare a truce upon these men, but you may be certaion that in the short time I shall remain in public life my work henceforth- will be to attack the system and to hold up to public obloquy the men who have founded such a cynical and contemptuous disregard for the expressed will of the people.” .
~ Bogus Poultry Dope. Farmers Federation warns the people of Noble county to not be taken in by a band of agents exchanging an alleged poultry tonic for chickens, The agents leave the inference that they are connected with Purdue university and qualified to sort non laying from laying hens. They take the non laying hens and leave their nostrum in payment, The .tonic has been analyzed and found to be largely water. : o Hold Important Meeting. ‘ Chairman John Pancake of the Elkkart Township Farmers' Federation announces a very important meeting of that organization Thursday night, July 22, at Cosperville. President W. H. Favinger was present with a most important message. _ : : - Notiee to Land Tenants. All persons operating farm lands in Perry township are hereby notified that all Canada thistles and other noxious weeds must be cut down and destroyed in compliance with the state laws. Failure to obey the statutes in this particular subjects the delinquents to prosecution and fine. The mere matter of caling atention to duties under the law should be sufficient. ' i : ‘Harry B. Schlotterback, 19b4t Trustee Perry Township
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