The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-02
LEGIsLATIVE GOSSIP.
TUESDAY, MARCH 25.

TUESDAY, MARCH %.
The attorney general business seems TO nave
been paying one.
The Senate, for some reason not altogether
apparent refuses to consider the bill for the
government of the State prisons
The extra session VIII be good investment
if any more $4,000 deficits are discovered.
The doorkeeper sof the House says that Rep
resentative Cunningham will positively not
accept their nomination for lieutenant gov
ernor AS the next most popular man among
them is DR.. Drake, they intend substituting
him. = stas
Senator Benz has a constitutional objection
to outsiders taking maps in the Senate aisles'
and noticing spectator yesterday enjoying
himself IN this way, he promptly sent page
to poke him up. The right to nap in the Sen
ate is a constitutional right-reserved by
senators for themselves. Benz is too wide
awake to take advantage of it, however, 1or
himself and he will not let any body else do
1t.
Schweitzer's bill to allow notaries public to
marry-not themselves. however, but other
folks. passed the House yesterday. He said
they had no preachers down where he lived,
and therefore he wanted notaries to "Solo-
monr maria ages. When the bill was intro
duced to the Senate, 1t was greeted with good
ratured laugh all around the chamber. There
will be some music over it if the Senate ever
reaches it.
The specific appropriation bill, which has
been the subject of a conference committee OF
both Houses, passed the Senate yesterday, and
afterward the House. The passage of this i'm
portant measure removes one of the great
objections to an early adjournment.
The News: By the way, when the Republic
cans get to bowling about the extra session,
will h..
well to remember that If Republican senators
had been half so anxious to adjourn as they
pretended to be, if they had voted as they
shot, there would have been no extra session.
At all times there were enough Democrats
ready to push business along had the Repub-
ncans wanted to do so.
LAS we predicted yesterday, the House re-
fused to pass the Senate Homestead substt-
tute for their exemption bill. The drift OF
the House debate is in favor of an 'eXemp-
tion," and not a Homestead" law As Mr.
Saint said: :. The recording clause was an in
suit to the class of people you were trying to
protect. Give them $1,000, without any re-
straint whatever"
The .sworkhouse" bill passed the House yes
terday II it goes through the Senate, a long
felt want in the direction of such needed leg
Islation will be filed.
The committee to investigate the matters
onnecied with the attorney generals Office
during the time filled by Messrs. Denny and
Buskirk made unanimous report to the House
yesterday. The House has not been so atten
tive or so interested IN the reading of any
paper as they were dur ng the time that Bern
hamer was reading the report. The CLERK
knew that he had something
that would Interest everybody
and he read it as he would thrilling TO
stu as q
reading something of the kind There was
too much truth for a romance however. As the
big items kept ROLLING out, pliing III
one on top of the other unit
the total amounts grew rapidly ava,
up into thousands, the astonishmen
grew and increased, and the interest was no
satisfied when the end was reached and tbs
information was given that 1.-The hall had no
been told, !" in the words of Mr.. Sleeth-