Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1901 — Late Legislative News. [ARTICLE]

Late Legislative News.

The senate killed the bill calling upon the county councils to fix the number of days assessors and surveyors are to work. A bill to abolish the poll tax and another to enable cities and towns to establish free circulating libraries was introduced in the house. The house killed the bid providing for the listing of promissory notes and other money obligations with assessors, and making them uncollectable if not so listed. The bill providing pay sou county councils on a per diem basis also was killed. Representative Small, of Porter, yesterday afternoon introduced the most drastic anti-cigarette bill that has been proposed, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, bartering, giving away and importation into the state of cigarettes, cigarette tobacco and cigarette paper under penalty of SSO to SSOO fine and imprisonment. Representative Jakwaye, of South Bend, and Representative Small, of' Valparaiso, who each had a game law that he believed would give universal satisfaction to sportsmen, succeeded in “getting together” yesterday and consolidating their measures into a new bill embodying the best points of each. The new measure contains Mr. Small’s, ideas about having .an open spring season and an annual license fee of SSO for non-resident hunters, but otherwise fallows Mr. Jakway’s bill.