Weekly Republican, Volume 56, Number 11, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 March 1911 — Page 2

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OF LEGISLATURE Ccmo Laws of Vast Importance to PeopJa Placed on Statute Books. (TO HAVE MEW ÖOMSTITUTIOM Important Changaa Affaotlng tuffragt Art PropoedVotor' Registration Law Enacted Corrupt Practloaa Act Employers' LlabMlty Changes In Liquor Laws Important Railroad Legislation. The session of the Indiana general jasaambly just closed passed and Governor Marshall signed 298 bills. This jdoes not mean that 298 new laws were jenacted, howeter. Some of the bills Canied entire new laws on some subjects, but a majority of the bills mere -,ly made amendments In some of the ;xitin- laws. But the general assembly did pass some bills of rait Importance to the people of the state prc'aably twenty fire In all. Th most far-reaching act of the legislature Is found in the bill Introduced in the senate by Senator Stotsenburg of New Albany, carrying with it an entire new state constitution. Some Important changes are proiPocted in the present constitution. In ,the matter of suffrage it makes it necessary for a man to be a citizen of the United States before he can be a roter at any election. Under the present constitution a man can vote if he has filed notice of his Intention to become a citizen of the United States. A voter must have lived in the state for twelve months, in the township sixty days and in the precinct thirty days next preceding an election. A man must also have paid his poll tax before he will be allowed to vote at any election. AIsi he must have been duly registered as a voter. The present constitution does not require .registration or the payment of poll tax as a quallflaction. The new constitution would make .the general assembly consist of not more than fifty senators and not more than one hundred and thirty repre sentatives." Each county would be given one representative, regardless of the size of the county, and the rest of the representatives above the ninety-two would be distributed among 'the larger counties according to popu lation. The present senate consists of fifty members and the house of one hundred. It is provided that the legislature shall not remain in session longer than one hundred days. The present ; constitution fixes th'e limit at sixty days, exclusive of the first day. The supreme court will consist of not more than eleven Judges. This j would mean the consolidation of the supreme and appellate courts. It is provided that any political par ity may declare in favor of the adop tion of the new constitution and have the same become a part of the party ! ballot at the election in 1912. Any 'voter voting a straight party ticket will thus vote for the adoption of the constitution. Voters' Registration Law. Another important bill which affects the voter and his right to vote is the ' Clark-Harlan registration law. It Is the first voters' registration law ever ' enacted in Indiana. Its main provl stons are that there shall be held .three registration periods, the first in May, the second in September and the third in October in each year in which i there is to be a general or state elecjtion. The registration boards will be tn session two days at each sitting. Unless a voter has registered he shall j not be entitled to vote at the election. iTW qualifications of voters are fixed la . Ali Aj . CT Lue consuvuuua. Another bill which passed and be came a law makes It a crime punish able by a fine and Imprisonment for 'aay person to solicit any alien to be come a citizen. It also prohibits any person from paying any part of the expense of an aSsn's naturalisation. This bill is - aimed at the wholesale naturalizing of foreigners In Lake county, Fort Wayne South Bend. Brazil, Terre Haute, and other places where there are a grea many foreigners. Both parties voted 'for the bill, -and it was not a party measure. Taken as a whole, the legislature ap ipeared to be anxious to clean up political aid election conditions in the .state. One of the Important new laws is the corrupt practices act. This act 'deflne3 what are corrupt practices at elections, primaries or conventions and provides punishment for their viola!tions. It provides that each political 'organization in state, county, city, 1 town or township shall appoint a treas!urer, who shall give a bond to the 1 state for the faithful performance of his duty. If the treasurer defaults he 'shall be liable on his bond. . He may i appoint sub-treasurers is smaller dlIrlsions of the territory, and ,shal make complete reports of their -and his collections and disbursements. It will be unlawful for any political committee to solic!t any contribution payment or favor from any candidate 'for any office or from any person de elring to become a candidate. "Bu any candidate- for office or person de siring to become a candidate may ; make such voluntary contributions to I such committee for purposes' named 'in the act. Ott?r persons shall not fee permitted to make any contributCcna to a campaign fund within sli I tenths of an election. No contribujona can be accepted from any Judge f a oourt or any candidate for Jud9 If or any political purpose whatevf sr. rhe treasurer is tss only person pjrp(ltted to pay any expenses of a pp. t. Ucal campaign, exoept that a c&ndit may pay his own expensex Candidates for oflc art limited to Ö following amounts, which they psy pay for campijn czpentra: 23 fpr each thousand up to tO.COO; 10 llpr each thousand ta eaocss of 0,000, Hi f3 tor tzi r-ri 1? aczi ct

100.ÖTW. Any excess shall "be' ünlaw-

ful. The law provides against coloniza tion of voters. Within twenty days after the election the treasurer of each political committee shall file ;with the county clerk a complete statement under oath of the moneys expended, together with a complete statement of what it was spent for. Within thirty days of such election Or primary each candidate shall file a similar statement. A false statement will be punishable the same as perjury. Every person will be guilty of cor-. rupt practice, under the act if he offers, gives or receives a bribe of any kind in connection with the election, or to vote or not to vote for or against any candidate; every Judge that makes a campaign contribution; every person that pays out money in support of any candidate except through the treasurer of the committee; every person who agrees to make a contribution In the name of another; every employer who puts on the pay envelopes of his employees any political argument or threat; every person who furnishes food, drink or entertainment before, during or after an election to Influence a voter; every person who attempts to or does vote Illegally. Violations are punishable by a fine of $300 or one year In prison er both. The officers of a corporation may be punished by fine and imprisonment if their corporation contributes to a campaign fund. It Is provided that If upon a hearing In court it is proved that any of the provisions of the act have been violated by any successful candidate his office shall be declared vacant. Campaign Contributions. Another bill 'which became a law provides that each committee and each candidate shall publish befor-s snd after the election a full statement of the campaign contributions received, from whom and how much. These are all new laws in Indiana, and will receive their first try out at the election in 1912. Next in importance, as far as public interest is concerned, is the action of the general assembly on the liquor question. Two new laws were made, one to regulate and restrict the retall liquor traffic and the other a local option law. The main points of the regulation law are these: The new law provides that a license shall be transferable to another person or to another place; a license is renewable; a license may be held by a person, firm or corporation, provided the firm or corporation ownr and operates a hotel of not less than twentyfive rooms. The applicant for a license must be a citizen of the United States. Under the present law it is only required that he be a voter. The process of making application for a license is not changed much from the old method. When a licensee wishes to transfer his license to another p-srson or to another place he is required to file an application with the county commissioners and the application will be heard the same as an application for a new license. The people in the new neighborhood have the right of remonstrance against such a change. Applications for renewals shall also be made the same as for new licenses and the right of remonstrance exists. But if there is no remonstrance and tte applicant proves his right to the renewal, it must be granted. The provision regarding revocation of a. license Is as follows: Grounds for Revocation. Section 19. Hereafter a license, or any renewal thereof, shall be revoked if the board of commissioners find upon notice and hearing as hereinafter provided, that one of the following causes exists: (1) If the licensee, either member of the copartnership holding such license, or the agent of a corporation holding such license, has within the year preceding been convicted of a felony or been in fact guilty of the commission of a felony, or any misdemeanor involving any violation of the law in restraint of lewdness, or is grossly immoral or otherwise unfit to conduct a saloon. (2) If the licensee, either member of the copartnership holding such license, or the agent of a corporation holding such license, baa within the two years preceding been adjudged guilty the third time of violating any of the provisions of this aot, or any law regulating the sale of intoxicating liquor, (8) When an application by a corporation to substitute one agent for another, to have charge of its business is refused by the board of commissioners, or by the circuit or superior court on appeal, and thereafter and before the appointment of a qualified agent as In this act provided, such corporation continues the sale of intoxicating liquors, or permits its agents to do so. (4) If the licensee falls to pay any city or Incorporated town the sum to be paid to it as fixed by this act. If the board of commissioners find, upon notice and hearing, that the licensee, either member of the copartnership holding such license, or the agent of a corporation holding such license, has been found guilty, or has violated any law regulating the sale of in toxica ting liquors, or permitted persons of lewd character to frequent his place of business, or permits obscene pictures or pictores of nude females to be exhibited in bis plaoe of business, or is otherwise guilty of misconduct that renders him an unfit person to conduct a saloon, such license or renewal thereof shall be suspended for a period not exceeding thirty days for the first offense, and for the second offense within any period of two years the license shall be suspended for a period of not exceeding sixty days, or may be revoked by said board, and for the third offense within any period of two years the license shall be revoked. IX the board finds upon notice and hearlug that the licensee has knowingly permitted gambling in hla place of business or in the premises connected therewith said under his control his license shall be revoked and no license shall thereafter be granted to him. If the bird finds upon notice and hearing that such liccsxaa, either member of the copartnership holding such license, or the agent of a corporation holding such lies use has made tnj false statement in the application for such Uoenaa, or renewal thereof, or Lrs.vloltted my tsirasst . & tt'A

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the duty of said board to suspend 6ald license for a determinate period, or to revoke the same.. If a license is revoked for any cause, the licensee shall not be s entitled to another license in the state of Indiana for .a period of two years: Provided, That no license or renewal thereof shall be revoked or suspended until the board of commissioners shall have made and entered an order specifying the grounds therefor, and until the licensee shall have been given at least ten days' notice thereof and of the time the beard will hear the same; and, Provided further. That the board of commissioners shall not proceed against such licensee during the pendency of any appeal t may be taken therefrom to the circuit or superior court. No license shall be granted to any person who shall have been convicted of a felony within fifteen years prior to such hearing, nor shall any license be granted to any new applicant who, prior to the passage of this act, has been convicted of any vlo?atlon of the' liquor laws twice in any period of four years; nor In case of an application for renewal shall such renewal be granted to any person who has been convicted twice in any period of two years after this act takes effect for any offense against the liquor laws since the passage of this act Provided, further. That the number of retail licenses which may be granted in any city or township under this act shall not be more than one for each five hundred Inhabitants thereef, which number may be further limited by the board of county commissioners of any . county .to any number not less than one to each one thousand inhabitants of such city or township. As to Limiting Number. Any limitation by the board of commissioners shall be made at its first session after this act takes effect: Provided, That no new license shall be granted to conduct a saloon in any room situate within a distance of four hundred feet of any public school building, which school building is not within the corporate limits of any city or town: Provided, further, That all licenses heretofore granted and in force at the time of the passage of this act shall not be affected by the provisions herein contained, and the holders thereof upon the expiration of such license shall be permitted to renew or transfer the same subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth, in the same manner as licenses issued in conformity with the provision of this act. In case there are more licenses in foree at the time of any hearing upon any application for license In the city or township in which liquors are to be sold thereunder than are authorized by the foregoing provisions, no new licenses shall be granted until either by the increase in population, failure to renew, revocation of licenses, or in some other manner the number thereof shall have fallen below the limit herein fixed. The opening and closing time of saloons remains the same as under the old law, except in cities of the first and seconC classes they may remain cpen until midnight instead of 11 o'clock as now. The license fees are fixed as follows:. In cities of the first and second classes or within two miles thereof. 300; In all other cities or within two miles thereof, 2200; in any Incorporated town or within two miles thereof. 2150; outside of cities and towns, 250. To these shall be added the state license fee of $200. City councils and towns shall have the right to increase these fees tc the following figures: Cities to $500. incorporated towns to $300. provided the increase Is made within thirty days of the time the act takes effect. The new local option law repeals the county option law which was en acted in 1908, and establishes option by cities, towns and townships and territory in townships outside of cities and towns. The process of call ing and holding a local option election is the same as it was under the county option law. Employers' Liability. The legislature passed two employers' liability laws, one of a general character and the other applying to employes on the construction of buildings. Both of these laws remove the defense of fellow servant, contributory negligence,' or assumed risk. A scale of compensation for death and injuries Is set cut Another law that win have a direct bearing on this class of oases is the one known as the Jackson law. It provides that when a demurrer Is filed to a complaint there shall be filed with it a memorandum stating exactly the around on which the demurer is filed and the facts on which it is baaed. If the demurrer is based on the reason that the complaint does not state facts sufficient to ' constitute a cause of action the memorandum must state wherein it fails to do so. This, it is pointed out, will break up the practice of attorneys of raising in the supreme or appellate court for the first time the real issues in a case. In other words, a lawyer will be compelled to show his hand and to make his entire defense In the trial court, and unless he does he will not be allowed to present aiiy new question on appeal This also will do away with the law's delays. An effort was mvie to amend the publlo accounting law In important particulars, but it finally simmered down to a few changes. The salary of the chief examiner was reduced to $3500 and the pay of the field examiners was Teduced from $10 to $8 a day. It was provided, also, that whenever an officer is found shoit In his accounts there is to be no publicity of the case until after the officer has been given 30 days in which to come in and make a settlement or an explanation. If he does this there will be no publicity. If he c'oes, the state accounting board may authorize publicity In the case. It provides further that prosecuting attorneys of the counties shall conduct litlgaf.on In ceses where men' are charged with shortages, but if a prosecutor fails to do his duty the governor and the 'attorney general are authorized to step in and take charge of the case. A new law provides for the inspection of all building and loan associations In the state at least once a year and as often In addition as the state auditor may feel it necessary to do

The auditor Is authorized to appoint three building and loan Inspectors for this purpose, the salaries to be $2,000 a year. This will place the building and loan business of the state on the same basis as state banks. There are 327 building and loan associations in the state, with 120,000 members and assets aggregating $36,000,000, and yet there has not been any law requiring examination of the concerns. The law also codifies all of the building and

loan laws of the state. It is copied after the Ohio law on the subject. By a new law the state bureau of inspection and the state labor com' mission are thrown into one bureau to be ci died the bureau of inspection and labor. A bill was rassed which gave the auditor of state the right to appolpt eight state bank examiners and to discharge bank examiners at his pleasure. The state statistician was authorized by a new law to open branches of the state free employment bureau In cities of the second class, which Includes Fort Wayne, South Bend, Terre Haute and Evansville. He Is to appoint the superintendents of the branches, but their salaries of $1,200 a year are to be paid by the county in which the branch Is situated. The agencies are not allowed to make any charge for its services in employees or employment. Another bill requires private employment agencies to pay an annual tax of $25 to the state, through the state statistician. Under the old law they were required to pav a $25 fee only once. Railroad Legislation. The railroad commission got about all the legislation It asked for at the hands of the legislature. The legislation on railroads was the most important ever enacted in the state. One new law gives the railroad commission power to order any steam or lnterurban railroad o install a block signal system of a kind to be ap proved by the commission. This is regarded as the most important of all of the railroad laws. The commission favored this law becruse it wished to prevent repetition of the disastrous wrecks on the interurbns at Kingsland and Tipton. Another raw requires air railroads, steam and lnterurban, to file with the commission all of their rules for the running and handling of trains, and cars. It is the purpose of the commission to seek to raakc all of the train rules In the state uniform. Under another law no man can be a motorman on an lnterurban car unless he has had at least one year's experience In some branch of the railroad service. Another law gives interurbans the right to condemn land and cut away timber where such tlm ber obstructs the view of tracks at curves. Another law regulates the method of stringing trolley and other wires over lnterurban and steam roads. The commission Is given power to make freight rates within the state on its own initiative. This Is a power it has never had. The new law also removes the two-year limitation on the life of an order issued by the railroad commission. Heretofore when the commission issued an order a railroad could start litigation to set it aside, and by delaying the trial In the courts could run It past the two years' time and thus wear out the order. A bill was passed requiring all railroads to use cabooses not less than 24 feet in length. Another bill requires a switching crew to consist of not less than five men. A bill favored by railroad employes and passed provides that no claims can be sent outside the state for collection when the debtor is employed in Indiana by an interstate corporation. The railroad men also had passed a bill which prohibits any person from making a false statement regarding the honesty of any employee. This Is known as the "anti-spotter bill. There is a new law winch says tnat when an employee of a corporation is discharged the employer shall, on demand, give him a letter stating the true cause of such discharge. Board-of Health Fares Well. The state board of health fared well at the hands of the legislature, it got everything It asked for, even getting Increased appropriations for its work in all departments. Here is what it received: A law to require the sanitary con struction of school houses. A law to give counties power to order the radical inspection Qf school children. A law to require each county to appoint a weights and measures inspector to test the scales and measures of every dealer in foodstuffs. The salaries of the inspectors are paid by the county, but the work is done under the direction of the food and drug department A law to require attention to the eyes of new-born babies to prevent blindness. A law to require a label bearing the date that food stuff is placed in cold storage and to prevent the sale of such articles after they have been in coid storage more than nine months. A law making it a crime for any person to sell bad eggs. An amendment to the pure food law so as to make the dealer as well as his employees liabio to prosecution for the sale of Dad m!lk. This law also makes the presence cf visible dirt in inllk positive evidence that the milk Is adulterated. An appropriation of $5,000 to fight the spread of iniantile paralysis. The child labor bill which was passed seems to be a satisfactory one. If forbids chil-en under 1 4 v years of age from working at any gainful occupation except household and farm work, and excepting that 'children over 12 years of age may work in canning factories during the fruit and vegetable canning season. A bill was passed which provides that when a person is convicted of a felony and takes an appeal to the su-. preme court he may be released on ball pending a decision of the appeal. If the decision Is in his favor he Is released. If the decision is against him, his sentence begins to run from the date of the decision on his appeal. Under the old law a convicted person had to begin serving his time when the verdict was rendered in the lower court. "Third degree" methods for forcing

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All state institutions are required under a new law to purchase from the Indiana reformatory all supplies which they need and which are manufactured there, Instead of going into the open market for them. Thus the state will be its own customer and will save money on the supplies. County treasurers fie required, under a new law, to deduct from any money due to any person such sums as he rsay owe for delinquent taxes. Of Lesser Importance. Other new laws of lesser import ance enacted at this r-ession are the following: Providing that in cities of tie fifth class where a grade has been established no changes can he ordered until all damages are settled. Placing all county superintendents on straight salaries rr. rising from $800 in small counties to $1,408 a year in otV;r counties. Making a few changes In congressional districts. Legalizing the formation of corporations to perpetuate the memory of soldiers and sailors. Providing for the use by cities of lands for park purposes where such lands are owned by cruatles and are within a radius of one and one-half miles of the city limits. Providing for the repair of free gravel roads by the county commissioners. Requiring wire across railroad tracks to be not less than 21 feet above the tracks. Giving organizations formed to maintain historic spots at public parks the right of eminent domain. Giving railroads the right to condemn such additional land as they may need to construct additional tracks or make other Improvements to their lines. This is Intended to permit the Lake Shore road to build a four-track line across northern Indiana. Providing quired to pay one jdollar for a license. Empowering county commissioners to build tunnels under navigable streams instead of bridges over them when they wish to do so. Creating a miners' examination board In every county in which there are coal mines, and requiring all persons to pass an examination before being permitted to work in a mine. The board shall consist of one miner and one operator. Providing for the payment of teachers attending institutes. Accepting from Dr. Robert W. Long and wife real estate worth $200,000 in Indianapolis to be used in the erection of a state hospital in connection with the Indiana University School of Medicine. Appropriating $25,000 a year for maintenance of the hospital. To establish levees for the reclamation of swamp lands. To prevent misrepresentation concerning the honesty of employees. To authorize the maintenance of night schols in cities of the second class. Gettysburg Anniversary. To provide for Indiana to participate in the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg. Making grandchildren of Civil war veterans and children of SpanishAmerican war veterans the right to enter the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home at Knlghtstown. Requiring the appointment of probate commissioners in counties of more than 70,000 population. Requiring Justice of the peace to notify the prosecuting attorney of the time set for the trial of any criminal case. Providing that all superior, probate and Juvenile court Judges shall hold office until January 1, 1915, their successors to be elected in 1914. ; Giving to townships the delinquent tax funds collected in the township. Providing that all life prisoners ahall be sent to the state prison at Michigan City. To relieve county auditors from criminal liability for issuing- illegal warrants when signed In good faith on orders from county con migsioners. Requiring railways to make immediate reports to the railroad commission of accidents. Requiring railroads to equip all locomotives with automatic bell ringers and also wifli storm windows. Requiring Interurbans to maintain waiting rooms in cities of 4,800 population or ever. Authorizing a township trustee to conduct a school within the limits of an incorporated town when property has boen given to the township. . ' Requiring three viewers, in road cases. Extending the terms of township trustees and assessors and making their elections fall In off years. Requiring railroads operating1 mlx-

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