The Indianapolis journal., 1883-02-02

tends to commit an unlawful act, whether such
person has permit or not-providing penalties.
Sec. 10. Any person furnishing a deadly
weapon with full knowledge that II is to be used
for an unlawful purpose to he charged as an ae-
eessory TO the crime or misdemeaner commit
ted
Sec. IL. Weapons fonnd persons arrested
for crime or misdemeaneF who have no permits,
conhscated and sold to persous having permits.
sec. II PROVISIONS OF the act made 60 apply
TO the sale, eartering or lending OF toy pistols.
THE sTATE-HeUsE INVESTIGATION.
A brief session of the State-house investi-
eating committee was held last night, and
Henry F. Perry, of Bloomington; Peter Mat
thews, OF Monroe county, and Captain A. C.
Vorhis, of Bedford proprietors of stone
quarries, were examined relative to the
prices of stone. This testimony showed that
prices in 1878, when the contract for build
ing the State-house was given, were higher
than now. The cost of labor in the Elliotts-
vile quarry was about the same as now
while at Bedford it is some higher. They
were of the opinion that considerable could
have been saved by contracting for the stone
at the time the work upon the building was
begun. Mr.. Matthews testified that he Of
fered 10 take all the contracts for all the
stone work at per cent less than it is being
done for.
lsfs1ioi~AIlNE NOIf9.
Has the railroad committee of the Senate
yet had meeting, or is there any proba-
bility of one in the near future?
Mrs. Edwin May has filed claim for $751;
600, which she alleges was due her late hus-
band, as architect of the new State-heuse.
Senator Bell yesterday introduced the bill,
drawn up by General Carnahan, for the
h
militia.
Representative Akin, of Sullivan county
will return horue to-day on weeks leave of
absence on account of ill-health He is
threatened with typhoid fever.
Mr.. Jewett's bill giving to grand iuries,
jurisdiction only over felonies yesterday
came up in the House on second reading, and
was indefinitely postponed by vote OF "a to
30
adopted new scheme for the preservation
of the House journals, and under his super
vision the records are kept in better shape
than ever before.
Senate bill 1874, introduced by Mr.. Camp
bell, provides that applicants for teachers
license shall pay the county superintendent
| fifty cents, the fund thus raised to be used
for defrayiug the expenses OF county insti-
! tutes.
Senator Benz yesterday introduced bill
providing that townships or corporations
may vote appropriations for the construc-
ton OF gravel roads under certain circnm-
stances, when such vote is petitioned by
twenty-five property owners
| Senator Van Vorhis yesterday introduced
a bill limiting the number of justices of
the peace which provides that there shall
not be more than three for each township,
with one additional for each incorporated
! It would hn raliaf IN is oit ~
if the bill should become a law.
Representative Aiken yesterday intro
duced bill providing for fee and salary
! commission to be appointed by the Cover
nor, Lieutenant-governor Audi tor and Secre-
| retary OF State, and to consist OF one member
! from each congressional district, and one
from the State at large, equally divided be-
| tween the leading political parties. The
commission IS TO get all the availab intOrma-
| ton on the subject of fees and salaries and
report it to the next General Assembly in
the form of bill.
The bill before the House to-day to ex-
empt farmers artisans, tradesmen, common
carriers, BARRIERS, bootblacks, druggists, etc,
| from the penalties of the sabbath law did
not find smooth sailing Mr.. Smith, OF Tip
| pecanoe, called attention to the other side of
the subject. His conundrum was: when
! you break down or destroy the civil sabbath
| mot the Christian Sabbath) what will be the
tate of the laboring man? When will he get
his day of rest? VIII not the avarice of mo-
nopoly and the greed of soulless corpor-
ations, step by step, wrest from labor its
rights, till seven days labor will be purchased
with six days wages? Surely the poor Ia
| borer has an interest in this matter above
any other class in the country, Whoever
trenches on his day of rest is an enemy to
the laboring man, because the civil sabbath
is his day OF necessary recuperation."