Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1881 — INDIANA LEGISLATURE. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Indianapolis, March 15.—The legislature reconvened this afternoon. The senate spent the session upon the tax bill. The present vote for publishing delinquent tai lists was agreed In the house amendment* to the constitution were proposed providing for woman suffrage and prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors, except for medical purposes. Indianapolis, March 16.—1 n the senate, to-day, the tax bill was amended so as to require the treasurer to give ten day’s notice of sales of personal property for delinquent taxes, and providing that if the tax deed proves to.be invalied,the holder can recover only the lawful chaigee with eight per cent, interest, ana abolishing the publication of delinquent tax lists. The latter amendment was afterwards reconsidered and further discussed, but no vote was reached before adjournment. In the house the Ryan election bill was passed by a vote of 52 to 88, party lines not being closely drawn; also the Gibson bill, concerning landlords and tenants, and giving the former a lien on one-naif the tenants’ crop for his rent. The bill lor reorganizing the state prisons was ordered engrossed. Indianapolis, Marcn 17.—A concurrent resolution was adopted by the senate and house to-day instructing the committee on fees and salaries of both houses to draft and report a bill fixing the fees and saleries of all puplic officers in the state. The senate refused to change its action in abolishing the publication of delinquent tax lists, the final vote being 28 for and 22 against the abolition. The house passed the Fuller bill to prevent unjust discrimination in charges by rail roads. It prohibits discrimination among shippers, provides that competing points shall not receive advantage over other points, and fixes the rates for carriage according to the distance. The Cotton bill, for the protection of sheep husbandry, was also passed. Owners of dogs are required to pay a tax on and register them by the Ist of April next. The school bill was further considered, but no important change was made in it. Owing to the large amount of unfinished work still before both houses, there is talk of another textra session being rendered necessary. Indianapolis, March 18.—The senate finally completed and passed the voluminous tax bill to-day, and spent the rest of the day in considering the public officers bill. jA resolution was adopted instructing the finance committee to inquire Into the expediency of making an appropriation for the state for the World’s fair, to be held in New York in 1888. The house spent the entire day on the school bill. Amendments were adopted allowing half an hour each day in the schools for instruction in German and fixing the rate of interest on school fund loans at six per cent. The bill was then passed by a vote of 55 to 26. Indianapolis, March 19.—The legislature was slimly attended to-day, and the session was spent in routine work. The senate nas indefinitely postponed the house bill abolishing the offices of city and town assessors.