Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — NOTES OF LEGISLATURE. [ARTICLE]

NOTES OF LEGISLATURE.

B. F. Shively, of South Band, paid tbe senate and house brief calls the other day. He took occasion to say a word now and then against the proposed amendments to the South Bend charter, against which all the members of the South Bend council, with one exception, have paused a resolution. Representative Hopping has withdrawn his bill to provide free text books for school children, tn order to amend IL A section fixing a tax for a fund for the books was left out and as soon as the change is made he will again present it. Mr. Hopping figures that the bill would entail a special tax levy of one-half of 1 per cent. It is expected that there will be a majority report against the bill by the house education committee, but there will also be a minority report. The house committee will report unfavorably on Mr. Maxams bill providing for tbe election of county school superintendents by popular vote. Mr. Carmichael, of Delaware, expects to introduce In the house, in the near future, a bill, prepared by Dr. W. A. Spurgeon, a member of the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination, which prohibits colinty commissioners granting liquor licenses to any person who has pot held such a license and operated thereunder a saloon for a period of one year previous to the application The purpose of the bill, according to tbe author. Is to confine the liquor bust ness to men of experience, who will not commit the social wrongs that a new man to the business might commit in his desire to build up his trade Dr Spurgeon says that he believes that the temperance people will favor this bill when they have become familiar with its provisions. Mr. Scott (Montgomery) also has a temperance measure which he will introduce in the house. This bill was preparted by Eli F. Ritter, of Indianapolis, and embodies the ideas of the Anti-Saloon League as to correct temperance legislation. The bill amends the Nicholson law by providing that a remonstrance of the majority of the legal voters of any township against the granting of a liquor license to any one man shall prohibit the county commissioners from granting a license to any man In that township, for a period of two years from the date of the tiling of the remonstrance. The bills already presented to the legislature show that there are varied and peculiar ideas about the laws of the state.—Muncie Times. In the senate the Kentucky question was brought up again by Senator Stillwell. who introduced his former resolution in a slightly altered form, expressing the sentiment of the senate that Taylor and Finley, Kentucky refugees In Indiana, should be returned to Kentucky on a requisition by Gov. Beckham Stilwell conferred with some of the Republican members, and an agreement was reached by which President Gilbert was to hold the resolution In order, and, oa motion of that Republican member, it was te be made special order for discussion sna day this week