Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1905 — INDIANA LAWMAKERS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA LAWMAKERS.

As a special order of business. Senator Purviance's bill to establish an Indiana Tillage of Epileptics was handed down in the Indiana House on Monday.It was the signal for a long discussion. When the question came to a vote the minority report to kill the*bill was rejected by a vote of 53 to 27. The majority report was concurred in by a vote of 62 to 22. After the general appropriation bill had been introduced th«' House got down to work on the Senate amendments to the criminal code. With few exceptions the amendments were concurred in by the House upon the motion of Mr. Sayre. Mr. Agar’s bill to repeal the law creating the codification commission passed by a vote of 66 to 8. The effect of this bill, if it becomes n law, would be to end the work of the commission with this session of the Legislature.. The House on Tuesday took up the general appropriation bill in committee of the whole and adopted an amendment appropriating $5,000 to catch O. A. Baker and any others that are accused of attempting to bribe members of the Gem oral Assembly. In the Senate a bill to regulate private banks was passed by a vote of 27 to 22. The substitute tax ferret bill was passed by a vote of 27 to 15. Moore (of Putnam and Montgomery) bill to place Gen. Lew Wallace statue in National Statuary Hall was passed. A resolution to appoint a mission to investigate tuberculosis and re-, port to next' General Assembly was passed. The codification commission bill on private corporations was killed beyond all possibility of revival by the Senate Wednesday after a discussion that consumed nearly all the forenoon session. The roll call on final passage of the bill showed eighteen voting for the bill, thirty against it. Senator Hendee, who fathered th<> bill in the Senate, changed his vote from aye to no when he saw that the bill had been killed, with the evident purpose of moving to reconsider the vote. He was prevented from doing this by Senator Moore of Putnam, who immediately upon the announcement of the vote made the motion himself. Senator Milburn at once moved to Jay the Jiloore motion on tbe table. On the Milburn motion the “ayes” and “noes” were demanded and . the,. “clinching” motion, thus put to the test, was carried by a vote of 24 to 22. This effectually stops all further consideration of the bill by the Senate. The Senate concurred in a favorable report of the public morals committee on Senate bill No. 281, a “high license bill.” providing for a county license fee of SI,OOO for saloons and that an additional fee of between SSOO and SI,OOO may be charged by town or city authorities. The present county license fee is SIOO, while citio, and towns may .charge not more than $250. By a viva voce vote which appeared to be overwhelming the House defeated the Senate's provision in the codification bill on cities and towns pinking a general extension of the terms of present city officers. In its stead the House adopted an amendment of its own, providing forJa uniform time of election in all citiesrqind towns in the coming fall and every four years thereafter. Officers elected next fall are not to t ike office until the"terms of present city officers have expired and are to serve till 1910.

In the Senate Thursday the House bill for elevated tracks in Indianapolis WHS passed in order to prevent controversy as to constitutionality. The Senate concurred in report of conference committee on the Crnm'packer aiitom - Hile bill. Many bills were rapidly passel. In the House the Gninard bill on private banks was advanced to engrossment as it came from the Senate. Speaker Cantwell excoriated the lobby and forbade doorkeepers and pages from carrying messages to members from lobbyists. An attempt to correct the House journal on th ' 1 vote which postponed the bill to increase judges’ salaries failed. Bills Signed by the Governor. 11. B. 125. ftuick. Exempting the property of Greek-letter fraternities from taxation. 11. B. 15C>. Sayre. Authorizing cointies to lease lands to hospital associations. 11. B. 1!)!*. Branch. To add one week to the term of court in the fifteenth judicial circuit. 11. B. 221. Cravens. Renewing the act of ISyt), protecting pheasants for six years more. H. B. IDS. Robinson'. Providing fur the issuance of bonds by the township trustee for the payment of township indebtedness. Emergency. 11. B. I<M). Rock. To legalize the incorporation of Shirley, in Hancock and Hendricks counties. H. B. 191. Wade. To legalize the incorporation of Grillin. Posey county. H. B. 218. Mctionagle. To legalize the incorporation of Riverside City, Delaware county. 8. B. 87. Murray. Providing that action in replevin for recovery of persomtl property may be maintained before a justice of the peace or mayor without tiling a replevin bond. 8. B. 115. Hogg. To exempt the bonds issued by the State Board of Agriculture from taxation. 8. B. 7. Coats. Empowering mon Councils to transfer deeds to cemeteries to private corporations on the petition of the majority of the lot owners. 8. B. 124. Ganiard. Allowing county commissioners to pay the expenses of making school fund loans. Emergency. 8. B. 147. Newhouse. Providing for n new hospital for the insane, to he erected in a city to be chosen by the com-’ mission. 8. B. 209. Stricter. To change the time of holding court in the Twetityeighth judicial circuit, composed of Blackfonl and Wells counties. H. B. 3. Kean. To levy throe-fifths of a cent on each SHM). the proceeds to go to those poorer townships in the Btnlo which, with a local levy of 40 cents on the SIOO, cannot maintain n school of 120 days. Hille on Third Reading Senate. H. B. 170. Beekman. To legalize the conveyances acknowledged before Justlcea of the peace and defectively certified. Paaaed, 30 to 0.