Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1899 — The Geo. L. Bruce Music House Lafayette, Ind, [ARTICLE]

The Geo. L. Bruce Music House Lafayette, Ind,

The law putting county commissioners on salaries instead of days’ wages, had the emergency clause, and is now in effect. Our commissioners, as before stated, will get $225 per year. The county reform law, which, among other things, requires monthly sessions of the commissioners, is without the emergency clause, and will not go into effect until the laws are published in book form, and distributed. And that will be two months or more.

All of the laws which were still in the governor’s hands when the legislature adjourned, except one, have been disposed of by him. Most of them he signed, and some he allowed to become laws without signing. The one still in his hands is Mr. Knotts’ bill for expending certain alleged money from swamp lands in reclaiming the Kankakee lands. This bill the governor is holding up until he investigates it. He has until Friday to consider it, and if he decides to veto it, his veto at this time will be final.

Some individual who does not sign his name writes that he has jread a “piece of a piece” in The Republican which states that a feature of the new county reform law takes away from the county government all power to spend money for tbe poor except they are in county institutions. He then proceeds to denounce the “inferneld” law, and the men who * made, his understanding evidently being that because the commissioners have no right to assist the poor, outside of the poor houses, that no one else has. Yet if this inpn had read the whole artiole he refers to, he would have found that the power of caring for the poor is simply taken from the commissioners and lodged exclusively in the township trustees, where it rightly belongs. Deserving poor can get public assistance just as easily now as they ever could.

We cany the largest and most complete stock of musical goods in northern Ind. We are wholesale and retail dealers in the celebrated Behr Bros. Pianos, manufactured in New York; Everett Pianos, manufactured in Boston; Packard Pianos, manufactured in Fort Wayne and we also handle a number of other well known and popular makes. Everything we handle comes to us direot from the manufacturer. For full information address

GEO. L. BRUCE.

Lafayette, Ind.