Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1900 — STATE CAPITAL INDAINAPOLIS CHAT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STATE CAPITAL INDAINAPOLIS CHAT.

The bulletin of the State' Board of Charities, for the year ending Oct. 31, 1891), shows that the cost to the State of maintaining the 13 charitable and correctional institutions was $1,213;213.50, with $144,879.52 for improvements and new buildings. The earnings Of the institutions were $112,402.91, leaving the net cost $1,245,630.17, an increase over 1898 of $127,884.43. The nine charitable institutions had an enrollment of 5,013, an : nerease of 347. The correctional institutions show a decrease of 100. There was a daily average attendance of 3,215 in the four insane hospitals, an increase of 127; State prison, Michigan City, 708, a decrease of 00; reformatory. Jeffersonville, 940, increase of 41. There were 769 prisoners in the State prison. Oct. 31, and 819 in the reformatory. The average number in the women’s prison was 51, an increase of seven, and in the boys’ reformatory, 512. a decrease of 38. The per capita cost of subsistence for the different institutions for 1899 was: Central hospital for the insane, $53.90; Northern hos-pital, $43.72; Eastern hospital,-$50.25; Southern hospital, $59.97; Soldiers’ home, $00.59; Soldiers and sailors’ orphans’' home, $54.42; institution for the deaf, $37.85; institute for the blind, $54.05; school for feeble minded, $32.00; industrial school for girls and women’s prison, $38.02; reform school for boys, $25.94; reformatory, $35.09; State prison, $39.09.

According to the report of the State superintendent of public instruction, Frank L. Jones, for Jan. 1 there was a deficit of $353,145.90 In school funds during 1899—The Governor and Attorney General have made an investigation and find the State has not been receiving the lull amount for liquor license fees. The United States Government issued 7,170 retail liquor licenses In Indiana during the last year and from these figures it is shown that the State should have received $717,000, or SIOO for each license. Only $377,000 was received, leaving $340,000 unaccounted for. This sum, together with the 000 malt liquor licenses, which also show a shortage, is sufficient to make good the deficit- in the school fund. It is said t hat rigid of all violators will follow. The next Legislature will asked to so amend the liquor laws of Jjidiana that a repetition of present conditions caniiot again occur.

F. A. Cotton, assistant superintendent of public instruction, has made up the January apportionment of school funds. It shows that there are in Indiana 755,727 children of school age, and that total amount of school funds collected was $1,008,015.71, making $1.32T0r each child. The January apportionment is from the December collection of taxes. The per capita one year ago was $1.30, and in .Tune, 1890, $1.45. The June per ■Capita is~ always heavieh -tban v that- for January. Marion County paid in $83,584.14, and will get back $61,626.84. Indianapolis will get $51,099.12. Marion County, outside of Indianapolis, will get $9,922.72. The amount to be received by any school corporation can be found by multiplying the number of children of school age by $1.32. There is a net balanceof $10,414.02 in the treasury. Judge Baker, In the Federal Court, granted a temporary injunction-* forbidding the Indianapolis Union Railway Company and- other railroads which run ; nto Indianapolis to discriminate against the Interstate Stock'Yards Company in the delivery of freight consigned from other stations than Indiana. A restraining order, granted when the suit begun, has been in force since that time and the temporary injunction granted now is ordered to continue in force until the final hearing. The court declared that the owners of the new stock yards have an undeniable right to have any kind of freight delivered on their side tracks and switches and said that the courts would not assist in enforcing a monopoly such as the old stock yards company was claiming, unless clearly compelled to do so- by positive law. The Supreme Court recently decided a habeas corpus case front Knox County in ten days. J. M. Pritchett was fined for having a “trammel” net in his possession under the fish law. His attorney construed the law as invalid and appealed the case. The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the lower court.