People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — SENATE CAUCUS. [ARTICLE]

SENATE CAUCUS.

The Following Committees Were Selected at a Caucus of Indiana Senators. Indianapolis, Dec. 5. —Twenty-eight of the thirty republican senators who will participate in the deliberations of the next general assembly were present Tuesday at the senatorial caucus. The caucus was an adjourned meeting, and the principle object of it was to hear the report of the committee appointed two weeks ago to select the senate committees. The sentiment was general in favor of bi-partisan boards for the control of penal and benevolent institutions. By bi-partisan boards, as one senator put it, is not meant two democrats and one republican, but that the party that . east the most votes at the recent elec- ' tion shall have two members, and the ; party casting the next highest vote one ! member. This matter will be placed 1 squarely before Governor Mathews, ' and if he agrees to it, he will have the I appointing of the boards, all appointments to be confirmed by the senate. If the governor shows a disposition io rebel the appointing power will be taken out of the governor’s hands. The further sentiment of the caucus, as reflected in the several addresses made, is in favor of an equitable fee and salary law. based on population; a congressional and legislative apportionment law that is absolutely fair; a tax levy and appropriations pared down to the lowest possible limit consistent with the proper conduct of the state government and the maintenance of its institutions. and in favor of the erection of a state soldiers’ home at Lafayette. No action was taken relative to the selection of senate employes, but it was agreed that the senatorial caucus should meet at the state house on the evening of January 8, the day before the meeting of the general assembly, for the purpose of selecting officers. Senator Newby has already been chosen as president pro tern., and R. B. Oglesby, of Portsmouth, thus far appears to have no opposition for secretary. THE COMMITTEES. Senators Wishard, Collett, Self, Haggard and Cranor, appointed at the caucus two weeks ago, to make up the committees for the coining session of the legislature, reported the following, and the report was adopted: Finance—Haggard. Bozeman, Holler, Gostlin, Wishard, Alexander and McKelvey. Judiciary—Newby. Cranor, Vail, LaFollett, Shiveley, Parker and Kern. Education—Duncan. McCutcheon, Thayer, Mull. Haggard, McLean and Gifford. Organization of Courts—Shiveley, Phares, Houghton. Boord. Newby, Ellison and Stuart. Corporations—Boord. Duncan, Schneck, Kerns. McCord, Humphreys and Binear. Roads—Kerns. Houghton, Holler, White, O'Brien. Rinear and Bird. Benevo'ent Institutions- Boyd. White, Collett, Newby. Wishard, Parker and McLean. Agriculture—Holler, Herns, Schneck, Bethel, Mull. Bird and Beck. Banks—Bozeman. Mull. Phares, Thayer,Watson, McHugh and Johnson. Public Printing—Self. Phares, Vail, Haggard. Boord, McDonald and Sellers. Public Buildings and State Library—McCord, Phares, Duncan, McManus.Thayer. Barnes and Beck. Elections Houghton, LaFollett, McCord, Watson. Gostlin. Wray and Stuart. Federal Relations and Rights and Privileges of the Inhabitants of the State —Gostlin,O’Brien. Bethel. Crumpacker, Bozeman, Humphries and McHugh. Temperance -Messrs. McManus, f rumpacker. Bethel. Watson, McCutcheon, Leyden and Bird. County and Township Business—Messrs. Collett, McCord, Bethel. Boyd, Holler, McHugh and Sweeney. Public Health, Vital and Other Statistics— Messrs. Bethel, White. Holler, McManus, , Schneck, McKelvey and Rlnear. Claims and Expenditures—Messrs. Watson, 1 Boyd, White, Thayer, Duncan, Sellers and Barnes. Military Affairs—Messrs. McCutcheon. Collett, Haggard, Mull, McManus, McLean and Bird. Phraseology and Arrangemeut of Bills and Unfinished Business Messrs. LaFollett, Shively. Newby, Houghton, Boord, Alexander and Gifford. State Prisons—Messrs. Thayer. Watson, Schneck, Boord, Gostlin, McDonald and Leyden. Swamp Lands and Drains—Messrs. Phares, Gostlin, Holler, Kerns, Bozeman, Sellers and Ellison. Fees and Salaries—Messrs. Cranor, Bozeman Self, Duncan, Boord, Haggard, Collett, LaFollett. Baker, Humphries Alexander, Kern and Parker. Insurance—Messrs. Baker, Self, McCord, Boyd. White. Sellers and Wray. Railreads—Messrs. Crumpacker, Boord, Mull. Collett. Baker, Wray and McDonald. City of Indianapolis—Messrs. Wishard, Cra" nor, Self, Crumpacker, McHugh, Kern and Stuart. Natural Gas—Messrs. LaFollett, O’Brien, Cranor. Baker, Shiveley, Rinear and McHugh. Revision of the Constitution—Baker, O’Brien. Vail, Crumpacker, Houghton, Baines and Bird. World's Fair—McCutcheon, Sweeney. Leyden, Johnson, Dunean, Newby, McHugh, Kern. Phares, Goslin, Baker, McManus and Holler. Mines, Mining and Manufactures—Schneck, McCutcheon, Thayer, Boyd, Kern, McKelvey and Ellison. Congressional Apportionment—Vail, White, Sweeney. Leyden, Mull, McCord. Cranor, Wishard, Kern, Phares, Beck, LaFollett, McDonald. Legislative Apportionment—Wishard. Bethel. Houghten, Leyden. Johnson, McKelvey, Shiveley, McLean, O’Brien,Gostlin, Baker, McManus and Crumpacker. Supervision and Inspection of Journal of Senate -Newby, Self, Boyd, Vail, Thayer, Gifford and Barnes. Executive Appointments—White, Schneck, Bozeman, McCutcheon, Wishard, Ellison and Stuart. Cities and Towns—O’Brien. Schneck, Cranor, Haggard. Vail, Gifford and Sweeney. Labor and Labor Statistics—Mull, O'Brien, Wishard, Houghton, Bethel, Parker and Beck. Rules of Senate—Lieutenant Governor, exofficio: Cranor. Newby, La Follett, Shiveley, Watson, Kern and Alexander. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument—Boyd, Duncan, Self, McCutcheon, Bozeman, Alexander and Johnson. JOINT COMMITTEES. Enrolled Bills—Vail, Self and Humphries. Public Buildings—Haggard,Collett and Wray. State Library McCord, McManus and Barnes.

Frank Jones, proprietor of the Red Onion saloon, at Yorktown, has made an assignment of his stock, and his place of business has been closed since Thanksgiving day. Francis Xavier Anterreitmeier, late of Germany, was ordained at Vincennes recently into the priesthood by Right Rev. Bishop Chatard. Young Anterreitmeier is a recent graduate of St Yeinrad college. About two weeks .ago Ed Foulkrod and Bruce Earle, tVi o young men of Anderson, left on a pleasure trip, and word was received the other day that they were drowned in the Ohio, near Louisville by a canoe capsizing.