Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1905 — NEW BILLS INTRODUCED. [ARTICLE]

NEW BILLS INTRODUCED.

Legist »tor* Present Many Measures For Paetage. Indianapolis, Jan. 24 - In the house > esterday Representative Springer introduced a bill for the propised southeastern Indiana hospital for the insane without n*miDg a location. Representative Guirl introduced bis bill making it an offense to offer rail ro«d pisses to public officials as well as to receive them The senate passed the Singer bilL making acid throwing a felony and committees favorably reported t*'6 Pars bills repealing the ferret law for hunting rabbits and authorizing the use of launches for duok hunting. Tbe Barons bills asamst spite fenoes and for a prim ry e eot.on law were also favora lv reported New b Its were iotroiuoed by Senator Newhouse for an additional insane hoxptat—the tame as the Spr uwer bill the bou-e—by Bnnat r Wick wire, providing for an inheritance tax, aud by Senator R e nler. res r edng divorces, 1 he a-t is the church div roe bill Repie*rn»a'ive Kean’s bill to plaoe the penalty on the vote bnyer intend of tbe seller was introduced. Mr. Condo’s t ill to abolish capital p iui-h nent w*s intro Hiced The bill wunid tihve lifo sen e ce inBtehd cf tbe death peua ty, and teke av*y the governor’s pirdoniDg power io euch c»ses. Bouse bill No 17, to make the fiehn g s*ason open the year around, start'd a warm discasaio \ re a desire >n ihe part of s mnnv of the representi'ives to investigate tbe bid more closely Ab ll for the taxation >f gifts, JegHcie* and inheri ances has been prep rd bv Seaa or Th >mas S. Wickwire, of DeKtiband S'nulien coni tie*. ‘‘lhe hill,” snid kr Wickwi'e ‘is modeled i-utstan'r ally after’he Llmo s law on inheritance tax lam in r o r med bv t di or of the etate of Ldnois that the Ihw in ihat state br.ngs annua lv in'o its treaenne* be-twe<-u $500,000 and $600,000. I be lieve that a similar law in Indiana would, in a targe measure, relieve the prei-ent embaras** d condition of btate’a fl'>Bi,ce* aud wou'd provide funds for onr ben'vo'ent institutions and our sohoole,”j