Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1885 — INDIANA LEGISLATURE. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

13th in reoefrlhg and hearing Mr Mb, the more important of which were, one for a ey rings la the ro«d ( law and another for holding an aleotidJfSOT tot CiMlfttfflfliffll f|t COBfflfltMWL his seat. He was very cordially received, bnt appeared a little nervous at first, and was not well acquainted with the personnel of the Senate, many of the members having faces with which be was not familiar. He is a master of routine, however, and promlam to make an efficient President. The last bill Introduced was one abolishing the office of Fish Com miahioner. Gov. ToraHarma retired from the Presidency of the Senate, indorsed by a unanimous vote as an able and Impartial parliamentarian. The session two years ago was a stormy one, and the five days of the nst week were models of decorum and good feeling. The principal portion of the forenoon session of the House was spent in listening to the report of the committee on rales, and in discussing the same. The rules adopted are substantially the same as those used by former legislative bodies. The most important change made Is In the amendment of the rule requiring all bills introduced to be read by sections en three several occasions before being referred to the committee. Under the rale adopted Mile may be inferred Immediately after the first reading. It was stated by the committee that the purpose of this departure from old-time naqge was to expedite business by disposing of worthless measures In the shortest order possible. Martin Morrison, of Clinton, we* eubstituted for P. J. Kelly, as reading Men of the House. The Senate standing committees were announced by Lieut Gov. Hanson on the 14th. The Chairmen are as follows: Elect tons. Duncan, of Brown: Finance, Wllllard; Judiciary, McCullough; Courts. Smith, of Jay: Education, Johnson, of Tippecanoe: Corporations, Null; Roads, Johnson, of Dearborn; -Benevolent institution, MeClnre; Agriculture, HtU: Banks. Schosa; Printing, HilUgass; Public Buildings. Rahm; State Prisons, Hoover; Canals and Internal Improvements, Ernest; Fees and Salaries, Richardson; Claims, Wler; Military Affairs, Howard; Bills, Sellers; Federal Relations and Rights of Inhabitants of State, Faulkner; Temperance. Thompson; County and Township Bnatoeas. Mclntosh; Public Health, Bryant; Insurance, May; Railroads, Magee; Mines and Mining. Benz; Suycrvtmon and Inspection of Senate Journal, Brown; Executive Appointments. Shively; Coneressionsl Apportionment, Dav; Legislative Apportionment. Zimmerman. Senator Faulkner, as a railroad attorney, asked to be excused from serrioe on the Railroad Committee. The request was granted. Bills were Introduced In the House, read the first time, and referred to appropriate committees: To create an Appellate Court; to regulate foreign fire insurance companies doing business in this State; to amend section 8 of the act relating to the powers and duties of coroners, being section 18 of the Revised Statutes of 1881; to define the righto and liabilities of hotel and Innkeepers; to provide for the appointment of a commissioner of railroads, defining his powers and duties, fixing his compensation, etc. ; to amend an amendatory act concerning highways and the Supervisors thereof; for the better protection of quails and pheasants; to amend section 12 of the act concerning highways and the supervisors thereof; to repeal section 4847 of the Revised Statutes of 1881 ; to regulate the practice of medicine In Indiana: anthorizlng county commissioners to construct free turnpikes In certain eases; ter therepeal of the drainage act of April, 18*1; to amend section 2009 of an act concerning crimes and the punishment thereof, approved April 14. 1881, being section 2117 of the Revised Statutes of 1881 ; to provide for the purchase of stationery for the county officers by the commissioners. ; • - ■- ;

Tub following Mils were introduced in the Senate on the 15th, read the first time, and severally referred to appropriate committees: To amend section 12 of the act of April 8. 1881, concerning drainage; to amend the act of Maxob 2. 1881, concerning highways and npemun thereof; to provide for the speedy publication, distribution and sale of the Indiana reports by the reporter of the Supreme Court, and repealing ail laws except the section of the act of March 19, 1875, to fix the number of Senators and Bepresentatives to the Gen ral Assembly; to amend section 2 of th > general incorporation act, being section 3258 of the Revised Statutes; to legalize the Incorporation of the Union i can and Savings Company of Marion County; supplemental to the act of May 11,1881, for the orga lzation and regulation of the State Militia; to amend sections 1 and 7 of the act of May 13, 1852, prescribing the duties of the Clerk pf the Supreme Court; to amend the act of April 14, 1881, regulating Insanity inquests and the commital of insane persons to hcsji’als for the ins ae. In the House the following bills were Introduced: To create the Twenty-first, Twenty-second and Forty-seventh judicial circuits; supplemental to the drainago act approved April 8, 1831; to repeal sections 1 and iof an act of April 10,1881, authorising aliens to bold real estate; for an act for the incorporation of towns; providing for the election of officers, etc.; relating to live stock, importing, breeding, and herding companies, authorizing and prescribing the manner in which they may be incorporated, etc.; to require railroad companies to fence their tracks, etc.; to amend section 4830 of the Bovised Statutes of 1881; to provide a safe deposit for county and township funds; to legalize the Incorporation of the Union Loan and Trust Association of Marion Conntv; to amend an act to allow the charters of turnpike and gravel road companies to be extended in ceita n cases, approved March a, 1885; to amend section lof aa amendatory Justices of the Peace act; to regulate the running of passenger and accommodation trains; concerning notes given for attorneys' fees: to fix the time for bedding courts ltfthe Thirty-filth Jnd cial Circuit; to empower Township Trustees to purchase and keep in repair public eemeteri s; to amend section 8 of an act of March 8, 1873, amendatory of section 24 of the common school law; to amend section 1 of the act to stnrhorize County Commissioners to provide suitable asylums for children who are a charge upon the counties; to amend the act crefling the Forty-tbird Judicial Circuit: to provide for the incorporation of an asylum for indigent females and authorizing the grant of aid thereto. Several petitions were presented in the Senate on the 16th, for scientific temperance instruction in the common schools. A report from the Judiciary Committee recommending the indefinite postponement of Mr.' Poulke’s bill for cslling a constitutional convention being presented, ft was made the special ordeg for the 2lst. Mr. Bailey otiered a resolution to create a standing committee on cities. Mr. Maty offered a reeo ution for the appointment of a committee of three to ascertain from Gierks of the Circuit Coarts in the several counties the whole number of civil, criminal, and probate causes begun, the number of centre settled and in process of settlement, and the number of guardianships settled and p-riding In each of said courts from Jan. 1,1881. to Jan. 1. 1886, inclusive. Mr. Bailey introduced aMU for the appointment of a State boiler Inspector. Senator Atkinson brought up a resolution concerning the consolidation of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home with tne Asylum for Feeble-Mind-ed Children, and calling for a joint a mmittee to prepa r e a bill for henceforth conducting the two institutions under different managements. There was nothing of an especially interesting nature n the proceedings of the House. Immediately after the opening of the eeesion Representative Lloyd, of Ripley County, offered a concurrent resolution Instructing the United States Senators of the State of lodiana and requesting the members of Congress to vote for the immediate repeal of the clause of the pension aw recalling an applicant tor pen-ion to prove himself to have been of sound physical health at the date of his enlistment. As the resolution was first read it called for the repeal of the entire law, but Mr. Sm th. of Tippecanoe, saw Hie error, and moved aa amendment so as to refer only to the objectionable clause. The resolution passed unanimously as amended- Later on a joint resolution, offered by Representative Robertson, was passed, favoring the pensioning of soldiers of the Mexican and civil w.rs without discrimination or grade, and asking for the rereal of tha limitation act, Mr. Sayre wanted to except JeJ Davis in the list of soldiers of the Mexican war, but was too slow in offering such an amendment. The re; ort* of the standing committees were received, and favorable recommendations were made nrou several measures. The Committee on Rlvhtc and Prtvileg s made a f vor ibis report on the Moody MU In the interest of hotel - keepers. ' • ■,■■■ 1 1