Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1899 — STATE LAW MAKERS. [ARTICLE]

STATE LAW MAKERS.

The sixty-first session of the Legislature J came to an end at 9 o’clock Monday night. The bill for general and specific appropria- 1 tions for State purposes was signed by the Governor at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. > During the day the Governor’s veto of the bill to pay the claim of the Vincennes ■ University, amounting to $120,000, was sustained by the Senate, the body in which the bill originated. A long telegram was received from the Legislature of Texas expressing its appreciation of the action of the Indiana body in directing the return of a flag captured from the “Texas rangers” during the civil war. The Assembly adjourned with the legislators in both houses singing “America” and playing jokes upon each other in the happiest manner possible. The total appropriations for the main institutions are approximately as follows: State reformatory - .$500,000 State prison Boys’ reform school 120,000 Woman’s prison 80,000 Central asylum 520,000 Northern asylum 220,000 Eastern asylum 240,000 Southern asylum 246,000 Blind 54,000 Deaf and dumb • 120,000 Feeble minded 230,000 Soldiers and sailors’ orphans*... 194,000 The expenses of the Legislature are $115,000 and SIOO,OOO additional was appropriated for the completion of the soldiers’ monument in Indianapolis, bringing the total expenses of the monument to date to $600,000.