Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1869 — LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.

XLVI GENERAL ASSEMBLY. ! | M«CHlar Seaeleß. I. , J Tuesday, March 2. Senate—The following Senate bills were passed: ’ No. to save pending suits at the time of the taking effect of an act to repeal sections 43 and 44 of an act declaring who may make a a will, etc., approved December 31, 1854. No. 64, authorizing voluntary organisations to acquire lands for cemetery purposes, which have been used for five years for such purposes. No. 217, to regulate the salaries of county officers. No. 54, to allow cities to acquire lands for public parks. No. 223, appropriating $15,000 to complete tbe State bhildiug, corner ofl Washington and Tennessee streets, Indianapolis. » No. 239, authorizing the classification of the Boards of Directors of railroad companies. No. 211, to fix the times of holding courts in the Btli Judicial Circuit. No. 60, to provide for the organization and control of savings banks. No. 238, amending section 200 of the practice act. No. 150, for revising and codifying the laws of the State. House.—Bills that failed—House bill No. 82, to amend section 2 of an act to provide for the protection of wild came, so as to allow of the netting of quail from the first of October to the first of February. House bill No. 93, to amend - section 15 of the act of December 20, 1865, to create a Normal School. Resolutions and House bills passed —No. 178, to so amend the Sth section of the Township Trustee Election act as to make it correspond with the enrolled act of the absent session for bi-enhial elections; Joint resolution No. 7, for Congressional instructions for granting land warrants to soldiers and sailors of the Union army. No. 165, establishing a Geological Bureau, and to combine the office ot State Geologist with the Slate Board of Agriculture—the Geologist to report to the State Board of Agriculture —and making an appropriation of $5,000 for .the support of said Bureau. No. 100, to amend tbe 10th section of an act providing for the election nnd qualification of Justices of the Peace, and defining their jurisdiction, powers and duties in civil cases, was read a third time. The bill increases the jurisdiction to S3OO in trial, and to SSOO where judgment is confessed. No. 179, repealing section 1 of the act prescribing the number and defining tho powers and duties of constables, and prescribing the time of electing the same. The bill makes constables elected— -m—October to serve two years. No. 114, to amend the sth section of an act approved March 6, 1867, entitled “An act to provide for a general system of Common Schools, the officers thereof, and their respective powers and duties, and matters properly connected therewith, and prescribing the fees for certain officers therein named, and for the establishment of libraries,” etc. No. 42, to amend the 21st section of an act authorizing,®, company to construct the Aurora and Laughery Turnpike, fixing toll, etc., approved February 15, 1848. •- No. 149, requiring Township Trustees to examine the dockets ot Justices of the Peace as to their delinquencies in passing over fines, etc., to the proper officers. No. 147, to provide for the care of v i i I H - * * lUvlio No. 103, declaring certain contracts, by note, to pay attorney’s collection fees void, was taken up and read the third time. No. 150, to repeal certain sections of the Registry law of March 11th, 1867. The feature ot this bill is the section requiring that all ballots hereafter shall be numbered. The afternoon session was taken up in discussing the General Appropriation bill, House bill No. 210. Wednesday, March 3. Senate.—The following bills were passed: House bill'No. 273, to raise revenue for the years 1869 and 1870. House bill No. 251, to legalize the assessment of taxes for the Statedebt Sinking Fund heretofore made, and to fix the assessments for the years 1809 and 1870. House bill No. 165, to create the office of State Geologist, and providing for a geological survey of the State. Senate bill No. 292, to transfer Brown county from the First to the Second Judicial Circuit. Senate bill No. 290, creating the Twenty-sixth Judicial Circuit, and fixing times for holding courts in the Fourth Circuit. Senate bill No. 286, supplemental to an act to incorporate the Franklin Insurance Company. House bill No. 60, for the incorporation of Life Insurance Companies. Senate bill No. 89, to amend tho act to enable the owners of wet lands to drain and reelaim the same. The General Appropriation bill was received from the House and referred to the Committee on Finance. ; r • Hovsß.—Bills passed. House bill No- 310, the General Appropriation bill. The House appropriated for the completion of tho State Normal School building at Terre Haute, $79,999. Joint Resolution No. ’B, for Congressional instructions for the passage of an act by Congrats*. yvliet-

ing from disabilities and forfeitures soldiers who left their commands after April 15, 1868. Tha Constitutional amendment proposed by Congress to the Legislatures of the States, in relation to universal suffrage, was made the special order fur two o'clock P. M. to-morrow. Thursday, March, 6. Sknatk.—No quorum. Seventeen Democratic Senators resigned their seats. Housk.—No quorum—owing to ; the fact - that thirty-seven DemoI cratic members resigned their seats, ■ the Governor accepting their resignations. This move was made 'by the Democratic members to prevent the adoption of the constitutional amendment, on the subject of universal suffrage, submitted by Congress. From the Cincinnati Commercial of February 15th. Value of Advertising in Cincinnati The Cincinnati newspapers have a national reputation, and circulate largely over half a dozen States.— We desire it understood that we do not attempt to appropriate for the Commercial exclusively this extended and excellent reputation. A share of it belongs to us, and we are not anxious as to the public appreciation of the portion that is ours. But we may speak more particularly of the Commercial because we know whereof we speak lin that connection. The Commercial circulates largely in Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Southern Illinois, and at all important points on the Mississippi River, and considerably in Southern Michigan and Missouri. Other Cincinnati papers are also circulated throughout this vast region. The territory of the-Cincinnati papers extends a day's railroad ride in every direction from the city. Tjie trade of the city can be restored throughout this territory by the aid of the press. Too many of our manufacturers have a feeling that advertising in the newspapers is not exactly the thing. They would be willing to pay for “reading matter,’’ but do not like to be palpable advertisers. When they educate themselves out of these delusions they will see their advantage in the knowledge that a business man's advertisement, for which he is plainly responsible, ts of the nature of an official document, and receives more considerate attention than a puff in the reading matter, and is both more valuable and respectable. 1