The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-02-02
LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP.

The bill OF Senator Brown, which pro-
vides for Constitutional Convention. was
amended, making the number composing
the Convention the menumber as are now
in the Senate. The original bill provided
for the same number as now compose the
House. 1t was made the special order for
the Senate on next Wednesday.
Senator Chapman's bill relating to the re-
organization of Water Works Companies
passed the Senate. Ii permits such Com
panieS to be reorganized by the purchasers
with the same privileges enjoyed by the
original Company. The bill is designed to
meet the question of recognizing the
Water Works Company OF this city.
In the House there was considerable
funny business got away with in the dis
custom of Mitchell's marriage bill Teter,
Gibson and Cole proved beyond reasonable
doubt to the House that they are humorists
of the first water. Colonel Teter has the
happy faculty of making fun out of the
most serious subject when he so desires
Senator Bundy IS getting the reputation
OF being the great Investigator. His prn-
ciplcs arc: LET no guilty man escape" He
offered a resolution asking for the inyesti-
CATION of the charges of inhuman treatment
to the inmates of the Soldiers and Sailors
Orphans Home and the Asylum for the
Feeble Minded, at knightstown. The reso-
luton passed, and the Senate Committee APP
pointed were Senators Bundy, Spann and
NoyleS The resolution was a concurrent
one, in which the House concurred.
Assistant Secretary of the Senate Sears is
the "happy recipient of considerable I'M
merited abuse from some of his acquaint-
ances III Vermillion County, for not having
appointed all of then.to positions. Whether
they were appointed or not, Mr.. Sears did
the best he could for his friends, and is him
self serving the Senate and the people both
well and faithfully.
One of the ambitions Of Senator Benz is
to never miss vote, and he never does.
The Senator is always in his seat, faithful
and watchful over the interests of his con-
stituents. So vigilant Senator should be
very highly valued, both at home and in
the halls of legislation, and We have every
reason to believe that Senator Benz is so
appreciated by his people and by his fellow
members.
Mr.. Messick, of vanderburg County, made
quite an able speech in reference TO the
Upton County swamp land claims:
Mr.. Spann was called to the Chair
in the Senate yesterday, while His
Excellency was taking a rest to
get acquainted with the Senators. Mr..
Spann possesses abilities that would make
him an excellent presiding officer. Mr..
Spann may be honored, four years hence,
with the second place on the ticket
Senator Spann is tackling the pool sell
ers. The horse-racing fraternity will find in
the Senator man that means business
when he starts out
The hatchet is buried. The Edwins, Nc
Dowell and Mcintosh medical bills COM
promised, as it were, they having been
revised, and the three ground down into
one. The bill was ordered engrossed yester-
day. and 200 copies ordered printed. DIR.
Edwins has taken a judicious course In con-
sulting with all the medical men
promised on bill. 1t is in part
the old Edwins and Mcdowell bills, en-
grated into the Mcintosh bill, and will
have to be known as the Edwins-McDowell-
Mcintosh bill. The bill is said to possess
merit The name of the three members
whose name it bears, ought to be sufficient
to make it take well with the medical pro-
fession throughout the State. The bill, as
now submitted, is far more liable TO pass
than any of the Others would have been.
| Senator Van Vorhis' bill, providing for
the election of Justices of the Peace, passed
by the Senate, provides that the Board oil
County Commissioners may fix the number
of Justices of the Peace in each Township,
not to exceed three in each Township, and
one additional fer each incorporate city oil
&c, 600 inhabitants in any Township.
Hon. c. ID. Teter says that at an early day
an effort should be made in this State tor the
erection of an astronomical observatory al
Bloomington; that our State University i
| incomplete without it. The State has the
astronomer for the place in the person o.
/ Daniel Kirkwood, of the University a.
4 Bloomington. a man of great learning ano
worth-tbc Proctor of America. And In
vast learning, talents and great worth TO tn
State of Indiana should not be lost for thu
want of an observatory and the instrument
to be used in taking astronomical observa
| tons Ought not the great State of Indiana
! furnish the means OF obtaining original OBJ
servations as well as giving particular in
structiou in astronomical science at her owl
| University?
No More Gossip.
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