Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1891 — INDIANA LEGISLATURE. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

The Senate, on the 27th, discussed the bill to prohibit the use of natural gas for flambeau lights. It was engrossed. Boyd’s bill concerning .highways was also engrossed as was several other bills of more or less Importance. By a strict party vote the resolution refusing ah appropriation furthe Worid’sFair was adopted. The House considered bills from committees, engrossing many and indefinately postponing others.- —™—~—— The Senate on the 25th passed bills as follows: Making the Mine Inspector an ap pointee of the State Geologist; requiring him to pass an examination, to have been a practical miner at least ten years, and fix ing his salary at 81,500 per annum; the bill also provides for an assistant inspector, whose salary shall bq <I,OOO per year; also the bill fixing the terms of township road supervisors at four years, but limiting the time of their paid service to fifteen days each year; the pay, 81.50 per day, is the same as under the old law. and for the use of a team the supervisor is to receive 81 per day; also, the bill to prevent the waste of natural gas in flambeau lights, permitting the useof out of door lights in jumbo or similar burners, compelling their extinction between the hours of 8 o’clock a. m. and 5 o’clock p. m.; to legalize conveyances by attorneys; repealing the law which authorizes officers of insane hospitals to collect the support of patients from their estates; requiring payment of miners every two weeks; concerning legal process in courts; authorizing constables of horse thief detective associations to arrest suspected persons without warrant and hold them until a warrant can be procured. Several bills were introduced. Others read a second time and engrossed. Mt- Byrd introduced a reapportionment bill in the Senate on the 28th. It proposes to give the Democrats 30 majority in the House, 10 in the Senate and 11 of the 13 Congressmen: The apportionment is as follows:

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. First—Gibson, Perry, Posey, Spencer, Vauderburg and Warrick.: Second Crawford. Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Knox,-Lawrence, Martin, Orange and Pike. 2 bird—Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington. Fourth —Dearbon, Decatur, Franklin, Ohio, llipley, Kush, Shelby, Switzerland and Union. Fifth—Bartholomew, Brown,Hendricks, Johnson, Monroe, Morgan, Owen and Putnaui. Sixth—Delaware, Fayette, Grant, Henry, Randolph uud Wayne. Seventh—Hancock, Madison and Marion. . Eighth—Clay, Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo. Ninth—Denton, Boope, Clinton, Hamilton, Howard, Tippecanoe, Tipton and Warren. " Tenth—Carroll, Cass, Fulton, Jasper, Miami, Newton, Pulaski and White. Eleventh—Adams, Blackford, Huntington, Jay, Kosciusko, Wabash, Wells and Whitley. 2__; Twelfth—Noble, Steuben, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart and Lagrange. Thirteenth— Lake, LaPorte, Marshall, Porter, Starke and St. Joseph. SENATORIAL DISTRICTS. Adams, Blackford and Jay. Alien. Allen and Whitley. Bartholomew ana Johnson. Bartholomew, Jackson and Lawrenoe. Benton, Jasper, Newton aud Warren. Boone, Hamilton and Hendricks. Boone, Marion and Shelby. Brown, Monroe and Morgan. - Carroll ana Cass. Cass and Miami, Clark, Jennings and Scott. Clark, Floyd and Jefferson. Clay and Owen. Clinton and Tipton. Crawford, Harrison and Orange. Daviess and Martin. Dearborn, Ohio aud Switzerland. Decatur and Shelby. Delaware and Randolph. DeKalb and Noble. Dubois and Perry. Elkhart and Marshall, Fayette and Henry. Floyd and Washington. Fountain, Parke and Vermillion. Fountain and Tippecanoe. Franklin. Ripley and Union, Fulton aud Marshall. Gibson and Posey. Grant and Howard. Greene and Sullivan. Knox and Pike. Kosciusko and Wabash. Lagrange and Steuben. Lake and Porter. Laporte. Madison and Tipton. Marion, 3. Pulaski, Starke and White. Montgomery and Putnam. Randolph and Wayne. Spencer and Warrick. St. Joseph. Vanderburg. Vigo. REPRESENTATIVES,

Adams 1, Allen 8, Allen, DeKalb and Steuben 1, Bartholomew 1, Bartholomew. Jackson and Jennings 1, Benton, Cass ana White 1, Blackford, Huntington and Wells 1, Boone 1, Brown and Monroe..l, Brown and Morgan 1, Carroll 1. Cass 1, Clark 1, Clark, Floyd and Washington 1, Clay 1, Clay, Montgomery and Putnam 1. Clinton, Crawford and Perry 1, Crawford, Orange and Perry 1, Daviess 1, Dearborn 1, Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland 1, Decatur 1, Delaware 1, Delaware, Randolph ana Wayne 1, Dubois and Martin 1, Dubois, Lawrence and Marlin 1, Elkhart 1, Elkhart, Marshall and Noble 1 F Fayette and Franklin 1, Floyd 1, Fountain 1, Franklin and Union I, Fulton and Miami 1, Gibson 1, Gibson, Posey and Vanderburg 1, Grant 1, Greene 1, Hamilton 1, Hancock 1, Hancock. Madison, and Suelby 1, Harrison 1, Hendricks 1. Henry 1, Howard 1, Huntington 1. Jackson 1, Jasper and Newton 1, Jay 1, Jefferson 1, Johnson 1, Knox 1, Knox and Pinkl, Kosciusko 1, Lagrange 1, Lake 1, Laporte 1, LaPorte and Starke 1, Madison 1, Marion 7, Marsha’l 1, Miami 1, Montgomery 1, Monroe and Owen 1, aNoble I, Parke 1, Porter 1, Posey 1, Pulaski and White 1, Putnam 1, Randolph 1, Ripley 1, Rush 1, Scott and Washington 1. Shelby 1, Spencer 1, St. Joseph 2, Sullivan 1, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo 1, Tippecanoe 1. Tippecanoe and Warren 1, Tipton 1, Vanderburg 2,Vigo2, Wubash 1, Warriok 1, Wayne I, Wells 1, Whitley 1. The House passed bills as follows: Fixingtime of holding court In the tenth circuit; to legalize acts of incorporation of Westport, Committee reports were con aidered. Additional bills passed: Regulating the holding of courts in fifty-second judicial circuit; prescribing six months’ imprisonment or <OO fine for removing mortgaged property from the county; authorizing cities to fill vacancies in the offices of mayor clerk or councilman by appointment; legalising the acts of notaries public whose commissions have expired; authorizing boards of county commissioners, on petition of two-thirds of the trustees of incon>orated towns, to appoint justices of the peace where there are no such officials

within the corporate limits of the towns; ceding to the United States jurisdiction over the lands of the National Cemetery at New Albany; legalizing tfieincorporation of the town of Clifford. The Senate on the 2?th passed the following bills: To legalize the acts of deputy county officers who are minors ; making I’ne penalty for criminal assault two to twenty-one years; raising the age of c-n----sent of girls from twelve to Iqurteefr years; making certified reports of the decisions of ths Supreme Court permissible legal evidence in certain cases. The House also passed bills as follows: Allowing but fifteen days to record mort--gages ; abolishing office of State Inspector of Oils and creating office of State Super visor of Oil Inspection (intended to legislate present incumbent out of office*; enabling cities to license junk dealers: amend ing the act relating to Plainfield Reformatory by providing that boys must be convicted of crime before being sent there. Defining rape and providing penalties, making decisions of the Supreme Court evidence in certain cases, making more specific the provisions of the Barret law for the improvement of streets and alleys proviaingfor the organization of a State Board of Health of five members, four of them to be elected by the Governor, Secretary and Auditor of State, for the relief of Stewart Porter, giving town trustees the same authority in the matter of making street improvements as that possessed by township trustees and road supervisors legalizing the incorporation of Leavenworth.

The Senate on the 30th passed a resolution deploring the death of Secretary Windom. The following bills passed: Defining fifty-second and seventh judicial circuits; legalizing the incorporation of Fisher Station; requiring county clerks to turn over to the treasurer all unclaimed fees; legalizing conveyances mortgages, etc., not properly acknowledged; prohibiting the obstruction of drains. ———22-: The House also adopted a resolution deploring the death of Secretary Windom The report of the committee to investigate the Northern Prison management exonerating Warden Murdock was adopted. Bills were introduced. Adjourned until Monday. LEGSILATIVE NOTES. If the Democratic program is carried out. Dr. Yancy, the State inspector ofioils, will soon be an ex-inspector; He is one of the Governor’s appointees and cannot be removed outright by the Assembly, but they can legislate him out of office, and this is what they propose to do, bypassing a bill giving over the duties of his office to the State Geologist. New apportionment bills were in trod uoed in the Senat-e Wednesday m orn in g. They are arranged to give the De nocrats a majority of ten in the Seriate, and thirty in the House, and eleven out of the thirteen Congressmen. The bills are drawn with the vote of 1888 as a basis, and a number of changes are made in the legislative and congressional districts, counties being taken from some districts and added to others.