Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1899 — Late Legislature News. [ARTICLE]

Late Legislature News.

Tfie township reform bill has passed both houses and will be approved by tne governor. It was considerably changed from its original form. The Newton county seat bill, as finally adopted will probably not settle anything. It requires a 65 per cent, vote to relocate the county seat, and that no town can get The other provision requiring the commissioners to build a new court house at Kentland is also probably a failure, because it requires a petition signed by 1000 resident freeholders. And Kentland can no more get them than Morocco or