Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A HOT at ‘the Pike County Pair wat made aick by drinking festive lemonade, and died the next day. Ex-Secretary of State Axthon was stric ken with paralysis on the 28th. Onehalf of his body is helpless. He will recover, but will be permanently injured. Some time ago, at Richmond, a white woman married a negro, and her white children by a former marriage were removed to the Home of the Friendless by the authorities. She 6ued for a writ ol hahfca corpus, and Judge Kibbe allowed her to take the youngest children from the , Home. About fifty gentlemen met in Indianapolis a few days ago and organized a State society', the object of which is to secure legislation that will foster the improvement of county roads and protsde means whereby money raised for road purposes will be expended to the best insults. Hon J. J. Irwin, of Columbusjwas elected President; Alfred Moore, of J Huntington Secretary, and Fielding Beeler, of Marion, Treasurer. Another meeting will beheld Oct. 14 in Indianapolis.

Thk Attorney-General has rendered another opinion on the Fee and Salary act. He says: “ In addition to the" fees prescribed in Hie Fee and Salary act of 1875 in behalf o< Sheriffs for the taking of in sane persons to the hospital for the insane I hold that such assistants as are appoint ed by Circuit Clerks, under Sec. 81— (Ist G. and H., page 385)—are entitled to eight cents mileage. Sec. 31 and the Fee and Salary act are to be con stated in sari materia. See Dumm vs The State, 4th Indiana, page 280.” The following opinion, having special reference to the Fee and Salary bill passed by the last Legislature, was recently delivered by the Attorney-General in response to a communication from the Auditor<of the State, and will particularly in terest County Commissioners and officers. The construction put on the act by the Attorney-General will t-e carried out by the officers unless the Supreme Court rules to the contrary. The written opinion reads as follows:

Hon. E. Bindkrson. Auditor of State—l hare the honor to acknowledge the receipt of yout communication of the 17th inst.. in which you request my opinion as to the construction of the acta of the regular session of 1875, p. 31, and of Sec. to of the Fee and Salary act, approved March 12,1875. The bill on paga 31 aforesaid was passed by the House and Senate, respectively, during the regular session of the Legislature, but it was not presented to the Governor for his signature until the 15th day of March. 1875, the regular session having finally adjourned or the 7th previous, and a special session having convened on the Bth, which was still in session on the 15th aforesaid. The Gor- „ ernor did not sign the hill, his private secretary ■writing upon it the following note: “ This bill was delivered to the Governor on Monday, March 15, 1675. and not before.” No further action was taken upon the bill, either by the House or Senate. In my opinion., the bill nevet became a law. The Constitution of Indiana provides that no bill shall be presented to the Governor within two dayanext previous to the final adjournment of the General Assembly; also, if any bill shall not be returned .by the Governor within three days, Sundays excepted. after it shall have been presented to him, it shall be n law without his signature, unless the general adjournment shall prevent its return, jn which case it shall be a law unless the Governor, within five days next after such adjournment, shall file such bill, with his objections thereto, in the office of the Secretary of State. Although my opinion upon this subject Is advisory only, I eannot undertake a discussion of the questions involved within the space of any opinion, hut I respectfully refer to the following cases, viz.: Tarlton re. Peggs, 18 Ind., -24; Van Dorn rt. Bodley. 38 Ind., 422; Kvans, etc.. »«. Brown, 30 Ind., 514; Colleman vs. Dobbins. 8 Ind., 156; Cooley's Cons. Lim.. 153: et seq. It follows from my views upon the bill above that Sec. 50 of the Fee and Salary act of 1875 is not a law, and my reasons are so plain ah to require no interpretation. I will add that, in my opinion, the act approved Dec. 6, 1872, act* of 1872, page 31, does not affect the question. Respectfully, C. A. Buskirk, Attorney-General of Indiana. Sec. to, above referred to, provides as follows; In ne case shall money be paid out of any county treasury for any printed blanks for the use of any county officer except printed heads and rulings in receipts given by Treasurers and other receipts given by Auditors, for which no fee is allowed by law. nor shall any Board of County Commissioners make any allowance to any county officer for any printed blanks used by such officers except for the use of the county; nor shall auy Board of County Commissioners make any order for the payment of any money out of the county treasury for stationery for the use of any county officer except for the use of the couuty.

At the recent session of the Southeastern M. E. Conference, recently held at Inclikflapolis, Bishop Janes made the fol. lowing appointments to the various charges .for the following year: Indianapolis District, F. C. Holliday, Presiding -Elder. Roberts Park. Gilbert De La Matyr; Fletcher Place, G. L. Curtiss;'Grace, Samson Tiucher; Trinity, J. H. Bayli«s; Third Street, A. A. Johnson; Massachusetts Avenue, B. F. Morgan: Pattisou, Frost Craft: Woodlawn, S. C. Noble; Southside, John W. Sullivan; Brightwood. to be supplied by Levi Wright; Sugar Grove and Northwood, to be supplied; Shelbyville. It. Roberts; Waldron. J. W. Dashiell; St. Paul, Landy Havens; Caßtletqn.i v T. W. Jones; Lawrence, F. S. Turk; Frankliu. E. L. Doiph; Southport. J. B. Sparks; Acton, E. T. Spencer; Sugar Creek, James McCaw; Greenwood, A. 11, Rest; Fairland. M. Black. Pattison McN utt, professor in Indiana Asbury University and member of Sugar Grove and Northwood Quarterly Conference. Conuersville District, J. S. Tevis, Presiding Elder. ConnersTille. John !£. Pye; Connersviiie Mission. John Machlin: Milton. M. H. Mullin; Carthage. George Cochran: Burlington. G. E. Neville; Morristown. Wm. Nichols; Rushviile. T. B. McClain; Glenwood, Jesse Miller; Laurel. W. S. Jordan: Brookville, A. N. Malott; New Trenton, Sans.el T. Hoeffer; Mt. Carmel. E. A. Campbell; Fairfield. Alonzo Murphy: Metamora, G. L. Alder; Liberty and College Corner, J. W. Mel lender; Liberty Mission. F. M. Sisson; Abington. G. S. Conner; .Clarksburg. J. D. Pierce; Guilford. A. M. Lowdeu: Bellevue. W- H. Wydman; Andersonville. to be supplied by S. R. Steward. R. F. Bru-ington.-Chaplain of Soldiers' and Orphans' Hume and member of Carthage Quarterly Conference. Moorels Bill District,’ £. G. Wood, Presiding Elder.

Moore's Hill, William Harrison; Aurora. R. -R. Baldwin; Rising Sun. J. F. McClain: Hartford, C. W. Lee: Xawrciicebunr. S. S McMahan; Manchester. T S. Hunt: Wilmington, J. S. Barnes; Mt. Sterling, Isaac Turner; Veray. R. D. Black; Mooredeld. K. L. tennear-; New Pennington. to be supplied by-Charlel "Mapea; Delaware. Peter De Clark; Versailles aud Osgood, Asbury Wilkinson; Cross Plains, supplied by J. B. Br.uer; Butlerville. J. W. Mendall; tlillsboro, William Evans; Patriot, D. A Robert squ. t F. A Hester. President: ,T. C. >. John. J. A. Maxwell, professors Moore's HiF College aud members Moore's Hill quarterly Conference. Madison and Jeffersonville* District, J. G. Chaffee. Presidin': Elder. Jeffersonville—XVal! Street. W. W. .Snyder: Port Fulton, to be supplied: Charleston. F S. Woodcock: Utica. W. M. Grubb*. Madison—Trinity Church. Charles Tinsley; Wesley ChapeL Jatnea S. Reager; Seymour. E. It. Wood; North Vernon. T. C. Crawford: Kent. W R. Lathrop; Henrvville. \V. H. Burton; Paris. B. W. Cooper; Canaaa. Z. A. Wade: New Washington. J. S. Alley: Vienna. J. W. Allen: Woo-ter. Henry Morrow; Sellers Van:, supplied by M. Y. Bovard; Vernon. E. B. Caidwell; Crothersville. supplied by —rrrr. —, Hew Providence. to be supplied. Green-burg and Colnmbns District. T. H. Lynch. Presiding Elder: P. 0.. Indianapolis. Columbus. Joseph Cotton; Taylorsville. J. C. White; Edinburg. F. S. Potts; Greons'ourg. First Church. L. G. Atkinson; Greensbnrg. Centenary, G. P. Jenkins: Milford, G. W. Winchester; Marietta. J. G. Hood: Hope. J. P. Pell; Meriora. Alexander Jamison; Browustown. W. S. Falkeuhurg; Georgetown. George Young; Houston. T. A. Bright; Jones vilie. Sidney Tinker; Elizabethtown. D. M. Reeves; Hartsvilie. D. C. Benjamin: Westport, T. S. Brooks; Milroy. Harvey Harris; J. B. Lathrop, Superintendent: Trafalgar. A M. Thornton. ft S. Winchester, agent of Preachers' Aid Society and member of First Church quarterly ConferISC* 9t Ureeniburg.