Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1894 — THE FEE AND SALARY LAW. [ARTICLE]

THE FEE AND SALARY LAW.

Supreme Court decides That Xfs All Bight. Thursday the Supreme Court decided that the fee and salary law is constitnal. April 25, last, Jas. W. Stout, sheriff of Vigo county, filed a petition in the Marion circuiteourt to compel State-Au-ditor Henderson to draw a warrant on the State Treasurer in his favor as mileage for conducting prisoners to th 3 penitentiary. The fee and salary law, parsed Mar. 9.1892, prohibited any such payment however, and in his petition the complainant averred that the law conflicted with the constitution and is “utterly void,” A demurrer to the mandamus was overruled by the circuit court and the case was at once appealed to the higher tribunal. The chief ground of the appeal is that the law is local and special oecanss it does not Include persons elected pri >r to the time it took effect, and that it is special because It does notinclude In Us provisions the auditor, treasurer and recorder of Shelby county. The Supreme Court in its decision, however, holds that the law is not special, but that, practically, its framers were possessed of snfliefent Information to know what they were doing. Judge Coffee wrota the opinion. Judge McCabe wrote a dissenting opinion.

The children of the tenements show a remarkable love for plants and flowers. A man was passing along one of the streets near the Nqrth river was blocked in bis progress and almost mobbed by children, from three to a dozen years old, beseeching him for the flowers in his hand. He had very few left when he got to Broadway, but ths little ones were so gleeful over their prizes that he was glad he had bad them to give. —New York Sun. Although French law prohibits womeu from going about dressed in men’s clothes, except when they ha vs obtained special permission from ths prefect of police, curiously enough, there is no legal obstacle to men parading the streets to women’s clothes. This fact has just been brought to light by the Paris courts, which have acquitted a man named Florentin Gosreider, who was charged with wearing an unauthorized disguise with the object of oon< cealing himself from the pursuit of a revengeful wife. Cornelius Vanderbilt has gives SIOO,OOO for an addition to the rail way men’s club bouse that he estab> lished in New York some years ago Among the successful farmers and fruit growers in California are • hundred or more Turks, who cams to this country to be farmers. London has women insuranot agents.