The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
wAsa1ssvos AND CONGRESSIONAL

| wAszIEsvoN AND CONGRESSIONAL.
| The House Committee on Indian Affairs Win re-
| port against a railway right Of way through the
lands of the Cboctaws and ChickasawE.
| The Housee Representatives has decided TO
/ hold night sessions on the tarif bill. The metal
/ schedule was considered Wednesday for nearly
| FIVE hours. Nr. Bingham introduced bill for a
| Commission of seven members 20 report upon the
| condition aud value OF the plant OF the various
telegraph companies, aud what can be done TO re-
| duce the'c cost OF communicates,
Houses OF Congress. The Senate refused to place
| lutte on the free list The House fixed the DUTY
on steel rails at SIS per ton
General Hazen opposes the transfer of the Sig
/ nal service 20 the Interior Department. for the
| reasons that the Chief Of the Service must have
power to punish neglect the work is done more
SECS must be 6eld by Enlistment i'm ORDER 70
repay their instructor for the lime spent in edu-
| eating them.
In the Star Route trial at Washington. the sub
contractor on the route from Nermillion to Sioux
T ais testified that MS mail sometimes consisted
OF a postal card but il was the time he was forced
10 make which kept his horses thin.
General sherman was banqueted on his sixty
| third birthday, and took occasion 70 express his
approval of the law for the compulsory retirement
| of Army officers at sixty-tour.
In the United States Senate Friday, Mr. Ed
munds made favorable report on joint resolu
ton to give notice of the termination of the
| fisheries articles of the Washington treaty, and
| Nr Hale reported the naval bill, appropriatiDg
1 So. IN .&A. In the houk6 MI.
resolutions against disseminating the silver coin
age and in favor of additional vault room at
some point in the Mississippi Valley. A pension
of $50 per month was granted 10 the widow Of
Representative Hawk of Illinois and eight bronze
cannon were donated for a monument 10 General
Lyle at Cincinnati
A bill before Congress to extend the period for
Withdrawing whisky from bond Il construed by
Commissioner Rsum to include all manufacturer
up to the date OF passage.
The Senate and House Monday aud Tuesday
continued the discussion OF the tariH bill In the
matter of trace chains every Repu blicen Con
gresham from Indiana voted against taxing the
tax of.
The Senate, Saturday, passed the pension bill.
The tariff bill was taken up. The proposition 10
reduce the internal revenue on snuff and tobacco
TO eight cents a pound was agreed 70. An eddi-
tional section was adopted regarding goods in
bond when that bill goes into effect. Considsrs-
ton OF the bill in Committee was completed and
the committee reported 10 the Senate, which sd-
journed without taking final action. In the House
the pending motion to fix the tariff on cotton ties
at IS per cent. was defeated. Discussion arose
over motion to reduce the rate on cut nails. The
motion was lost
THE STATE LEGIsLATURE.
We continue our resume of the proceedings of
the Legislature since our last issue: In the State
Senate Mr.. Spaun has introduced bill providing
for d Constitutional Convention to consider and
pass upon various proposed amendments TO the
State Constitution. 1t is 10 be composed of fifty
delegates elected as State Senators are, and from
the same Districts. and when these shall have
agreed 70 any changes In the Constitution,
people for ratification or rejection.
The bill provides that the election OF
delegates TO the Convention shall take place the
first Mondsy in April. The Convention shall meet
the first Monday in June, and the vote on the
amendments shall be taken one month later.
his bill providing for the purchase of toilrOsds
upon petition instead of by a vote of the tsxpsy
efB interested. 1t was discussed at length and
failed for lack Of Constitutional majority-yeas
81; nays, IS Senator Fletcher's bill authorizing
cas- and water companies 10 lowest their surplus
capital in city or Township bonds was passed,
ing the SOLDIERS, Orphans Home and
the Institute for Feeble Minded Children, and in
creRsing the pay of Trustees from 500 10 $500 |
This will give the Democrats control of the Insti
tuition. The claim of Neal & Co., of Louisville.
contractors for the iron work on the new Insane |
Hospital. was trsmped on in the House. A ma
recommending that the bill providing for judi |
cial construction of the contract be had for the
information aud guidance OF future Legislatures
be passed. The majority report recommended Q.
the minority report was approved.
The House devoted an afternoon 10 the discus
sion of Mr.. JEWELS bin repeating the law which
as bills of exchange. and IL was finally ordered
engrossed by vote OF g. to ~ If similar action
is taken in the Senate the bill will serve pro-
lection to the farmers of the State who hiih
erto been the victims of hayrake ana wind pump
swindlers who By false pretenses secured promis-
sorry notes from them under the existing law, as
In this State such notes are collectable.
In both the Senate and the House there a
call OF the Counties for the introduction OF bills,
before % NEW P1 tSe %sTe Drousa
sion. Most of them had reference TO subjects as
to which similar bills are already pending. and
contained no features Of special interest Senator
Graham and Representative Rowland introduced
In their respective Houses bills providing
as to the care Of abandoned and orphan children
Their intent Is that when q father abandons
01S child Tor one year the mother
shall have full authority and control of her child
thereafter in the case Of boy until the age of
twenty one years. and in the case of girl until
the age of eighteen. Senator Willard has bin
providing that Railroad Companies shall liable
for al damages sustained by their employees, even
though the same may be the result of careeSsness
or negligence of other ployes of the same Com
pany. The bill amending the decedents' estates
act has been ordered engr0ssed by the House.
The principal changes In the present law made
by the pending bill are the abo ition OF the office
OF Master Commissioned; the Probate Court dock.
et allows an administrator to pay all claims of
sl00 ana under; gives him the power 70 distrib-
ute the money among the heirs: removes admin.
istrators aud executors who leave the State;
leaves IL to the discretion of the Court to remove
an administrator who has left the County in
which the decedent was situated, and reduces the
allowance OF Clerks to twenty five cents for filing
q claim. Representative Mccormick has intro
duced bill TO restrict the term for which War
den Of either OF the State Prisons can be elected
TO four years, and render the officials ineligible
for reelection. He thinks that the perpetuaton
of Prison Warden in office is an evil, and seeks
70 remedy It.
The bill recognizing the management Of the
Plain field House of Refuge changing its name to
the Indiana Reform School for BOYS. and electing
a new Board of Trustees by which one of the
hold-over Trustees Is legislated out OF Office was
passed I'm the Senate on Friday by vote of "a TO
81 The bill for the reorganization of the North
ern Prison was also passed by "a to 20:
In the'House the metropolitan police bill was
reported by the Committee en- Cities and Towns,
the majority recommending its passage with the
amendments. the effect of which has been nub.
lished. The minority recommended its indefinite
Dostr onement. The general appropriation bill
came 10 a third reading in the Houie and it was
passed by a vote Of Sc to 0. The
of the State u,254.i2o. and that Of
1851 appropriated the SUM Of sl,2ll,3s Repre-
sentative Antriem has introduced q bill provid-
ing that all companies and corporations shall
make settlement and payment in money to their
employees at least once in every thirty days under
penalty OF si00 per day for noncompliance. The
State University endowment bill, after being
amended upon the recommendation of the Com
mittee on Education so as 10 make the special tax
l cent per annum, wss engrossed and ordered to
| a third reading.
Some CONSERVATION was caused In the Senate
Saturday morning over the mysterious disappear
ance OF the general appropriation bill, which had
Just been received from the House. Il was al
layed at the opening of the afternoon session,
however. by the announcement that the bill had
been found.
bin making the Thirty-seyenth Judicial Cir
cult out of Fsyette, Franklin and Union Counties,
and the Eighth Circuit Of Decatur and Rush,
and giving the latter County one more week of
Court was passed by the Senate Saturday.
The Tariff swfndle.