Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — THE INDIAYA LEGISLATURE [ARTICLE]

THE INDIAYA LEGISLATURE

Reports of Proceedings and Bills Introduced. MEASURES IN BOTH HOUSES. ladieatloaa Are That the Agnew AaUTrnst Bill Will Not Pass la JU Present For at—Bill May Be Greatly Changed. Tuesday. February 8. The joint republican committee on congressional apportionment united on a bill and will submit It to a joint republican caucus Friday. It makes four changes. Johnson county. 800 democratic. Is taken from the seventh to the fourth district; Blackford, 200 democratic, goes -from the eighth to the eleventh; Howard, 1,600 republican, is moved from the eleventh to the ninth, and Decatur, 400 republican. 1* taken from the fourth and put In the sixth. The measure leaves nine republican and four democratic district* by th* last vote Congressman I-andls is greatly strengthened, as Is Congressman Watson, Overstreet and Cromer, while the fourth Is made still heavier democratic. Wednesday, February 6. Th* Republican* of the Senate will have a caucus on the Agnew anti-trust bill today, and it Is expected that the Republican representatives will be called in for consultation. Every Republican senator has been deluged with telegrams and letters, urging him to vote against the bill In its present form. Senator Burns alone received thirty telegrams from South Bend against, the bill. A number of party leaders from different parts of the State ar* demanding that the bill be not passed because, they say. to pass It would be "bad polltlca.” The Indications now are that the bill will not be passed In Its present form, and that if It becomes a caucus measure it will be so amended that little of the original will be left.