Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1896 — The B. & L. Commission. [ARTICLE]

The B. & L. Commission.

Shortly after of the last Legislature Governor Matthews appointed a committee consisting of John H. Holiday and J. E. McCullough, of Indianapolis, and Bellamy Sutton, o* Shelbyville, to draft a bill for the government of building and loan association. This committee will hold its second meeting within the next week. The committee was created in accordance with an act of the Legislature. The members of the committee say they will have little that cau be made public until after the bill has been prepared. They have until next April to get the bill in readiness and will probably occupy the full time in its preparation. The building and loan system in Indiana is to be investigated, besides the laws regulating these associations in other states. Any one desiring to sell or borrow money on Life Insurance Policies, write to, or call upon, Ferguson, Wilson A Co.

Thecoutity seat papers were very careful to not publish the fact to their ; res£lers that the now conrn house order was made in commisioner Jones’ absence, . leaving their readers to infer that the full hoard was present and that the 6rder was unanimous, and only mentioned the fact after attention was called to the matter iu the Press. —Remington Press. Anything to stir local prejudice and jealousy, is the plan of those whose organ the in the anti-court house campaign, and of wbieh the ebove is a sample. The statement that the county seat papers were trying to suppress the fact of Mr. Jones’ absensfyis ■ ,# entirely without trujb, at least so far as The Republican was concerned. The absolute proof of this fact, is found in the paragraph which we here republish, from The Republican of Dec., 19, and up to which time the only attitude of the Press, in regard to the court house order, had been in commendation of it. Here is the item referred to, just as it appeared on the first page of our issue of Dec., 19. “Hon. D. R. Jones, commissioner from the third district, has not yet recovered from his sickness of a month or two ago, and was unable (o attend the Decemeer term, of the Commissioners’ court, at all.”