Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1881 — INDIANA LEGISLATURE. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Indianapolis, March 21.—The senate further considered the bill relating to public offices and officers, and referred the sections touching fees and salaries to the fee and salary committee, with instructions to report within five days. In the house, the wife whipping bill was put on its passage. The vote Mood. 85 in favor to 34 against, the Mi failing for want of a constitutional majority. The bill providing $40,000 for a sewerage from the deaf ana dumb asylum also failed for the same reason. Dr. McDowell, a member from Allen county, was injured in a railroad accident last night. His injuries are not considered serious and he will be able to report for duty in a day or two. 'Mr. Berrymore, member from Shelby and Bartholomew counties, is reported to be dying of pneumonia at his home in Shelbyville. Indianapolis, March 22.—1 n the senate this morning joint resolutions were offered proposing an amend ment to the constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of liquors, and to enfranchise women and permit them to practice law. Afterwards the senate further considered the bill relative to public officers.

The bouse passed the following bills: Senator Kramer’s bill relating to the manner of choosing township trustees; Mr. Barnett’s bill, amending section 26 of the fee and salary act; and Mr. McShehey’s bill, authorizing a tax levy by Indianapolis to build a market house. Mr. Burkirk’s bill to legalize the records of county courts failed for Want of a constitutional majority. The bill authorizing railroad companies to construct and operate telegraph lines for commercial purposes was also passed. The report of the conference committee on the tax bill was received and concurred in. The senate recedes from nearly all its important amendments, including that abolishing the publication of delinquent tax lists, and taxing the gross receipts of foreign insurance companies. •

“ Indianapolis, Indiana, March 23. —The report of the investigating committee, deposing the superintendent of the soldiers’ orphans home and asylum for feeble minded children, was concurred in by the senate to-day by a voteof 28 to 14. >

The following bills were passed: Abolishing the superior court of Cass county and amending section 8 of the bank act of 1873, permitting the capital stock of banks to be reducedSenator Heffron’s bill, relating to notes payable in bank, failed to pass In the house the majority report of the committee on the Evansville bridge bill was concurred in, and the bill passed. A provision to made against the charging of exorbitant tolls to other roads by the company ownng the bridge. Senator Wilson’s bill, for a state fish commissioner, was passed, and also the compromise medical bill. The bill makes it unlawful for any one to practice medicine in this state after June 1,1882, without certain prescribed qualifications. Tiie Vawter road bill, which remodels the entire road system of the state, was also passed ; also the bill levying a tax for state house purposes of two per cent, for two years. The commissioners are allowed to draw SIOO,OOO from the general fund. Mr. Hinton’s bill relating to the fees of jurors was re-introduced in an amended form, and passed. The house adopted a resolution that hereafter no more leaves of absence shall lie granted, except in case of sickness, or where the presence of a member is imperatively demanded elsewhere.

Indianapolis, March 24.—The senate passed the following bills to-day: The ouse bill providing but one voting precinct in towns of less than 2,000 population; appropriating $5,000 for the survey or wet lands by an engineer to be appointed by the governor; and providing for the reinvestment of the Purdue University sand in twenty years state bonds bearing five per cent, interest. The house passed bills authorizing countv boards -to raise the bonds of >oor farm superintendents to $5,000; or the protection of wild game; amending the act limiting the indebtedness of counties to 3 per cent.; Mr. Gibbons’ draft law; Mr. Kerr’s mechanic’s lien bill; to provide for the sale of lands forfeited to the state and for the sale of lands purchased on behalf of the state; the bill compelling railroads to fence their lands. The joint fee and salary committee will, it is said, report a new bill, making important reductions in both fees and salaries of officials. Indianapolis. March 25,—A lively debate was precipitated in the senate this morning over the concurrent resolution touching the state house cor-ner-stone, Messrs. Spann, Bell ansl Brown taking part in the discussion. Mr. Spann’s substitute for the committee’s report, instructing the commissioners to remove ana relay the same aftenplacing therein some memorial of the soldiers of Indiana, was jected,—yeas 11, nays 32. The committees report, recommending that some appropriate memorial of the war be placed in the building, was then adopted without dissent.

A resolution was adopted directing the committee on revision to prepare a bill codifying all the election laws conform with the constitutional amendments recently ratified by the people. Senator Langdon introduced a z bill establishing three district appellate courts in the state, each court to have three Judges, who shall serve until the next election. The bill provides for eumulat<ve voting, on the Illinois plan, so that the courts may be nonpartisan, The morning session of the house fras occupied in discussing the joint committees report on the soldiers’ orphans home and asylum for feebleminded children. The report of the committee, recommending the removal oft he superintendent, was concurred in, a resolution-adopted ordering the removal of Superintendent Ibach.

The bill to abolish the superior court of Cass count jr was passed; also the following: Giving to city judges the same jurisdiction as that of mayors; authorizing the appointment of a commission to empanel jurors; authorising the mortgaging of the state fair grounds to pay off the present mortgage, and appropriating $4,000 annually to pay the interest. A Galveston man, J. Hafney by name, who is in the interior of the State, received a letter from his wife the other day. It read: “ Dear husband, I have been very anxious about your personal safety ever since I read of that cattle train being wrecked.” The fenian council of Bal Hnmore, Ireland, has resolved to shoot the landlord who last year shot a man In self-defense during a riot on a farm from which the tenant had been evicted. Two men have been selected to commit the murder. The police are tn possession of all the facta.