The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-13
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
The Vote Defeating the Appellate Court
Bill RecOnsidered.
The Bill Concerning Prosecutors
Fees Recalled From the Senat,.
The Rivers Abandonment of Q ice
Measure Provokes a Lengthy
Discussion.

The Senate W ID meet again this afternoon,
having been adjourned for the past two days.
The House having ordered an extra clerk,
1t is understood that Miss Emma Henrik, of
New Albany, who served as folding clerk
during the regular session, will be given the
position.
A resolution was adopted in the House
yesterday afternoon instructing the Clerk of
the Supreme Court to report the number of
cases on the docket and the total number
decided during the past year.
The colored citizens will meet in the Su-
preme Court room on Monday night for the
purpose OF ratifyipg the action OF the Legis-
lature in passing the Civil Rights bill. Sem
ator Thompson, the author of the bill, aud
Representative Gooding. who was its special
champion in the House, will make speeches
on the occasion.
1t is understood that the friends Of DR..
Edenharter, Councilman from the Eigth
Ward, will urge him for a position in the
Pension Office here. 1t is generally con-
coded that Mayor Zollinger. of Fort Wayne,
will be appointed and the position desired
for the Doctor by his friends, is the next in
rank in the office.
The House adjourned yesterday afternoon
till o'clock Saturday, bat an arrangement
has been made for adjourning again ct that
time till Monday. 1t is not expected that
a quorum will be present on Saturday and
for this reason another adjournment will be
necessary. Very few of the members who
left yesterday will return till Manday.
By vote of 40 to 81 the HoDse yesterday
reconsidered its action in defeating the APP.
pellste Court BILL and 500 copies of the same
was ordered printed. The Judges of the So
preme Court are unanimous in the opinion
that some relief is necessary, and il may be
that the bill will yet get through. The OPP
position in the House has been very de-
termined, but the fact that the vote defe At
ing the bill has been reconsldered gives
some gleam Of hope that ii may J ct pass.
Ia his explanation of his vote on House
bin l59 concerning the teaching of German
in the schools, Mr.. Browning was yesterday
incorrectly quoted as saying: 1T the time
comes to discriminate against either the Ger
mans or the coored race, / shall discrimin-
ate against the Germans" What he did say
was exactly the reverse: at the time comes
10 discriminate against either the Germans
or the colored race, | shall discriminate
against the colored race; but there is no need
CT any discrimination against either"
The opposition of the prosecuting saor.
neYs 10 the passage OF House bill 377, which
cuts off their fees in cases where pleas of
guilty are entered, seems to have had salu
tary effect and the House yesterday adopted
a motion to call the bill back from The .n-
ate. The author oSthe bill protested agai est
such action, asserting that there was a stro z
lobby influence at work to1iefeat the bill, q I'd
that the proposition to call it back was only
another way of defeating it. He was opposed
to the delay, which he asserted endangered
Tfc Tho 1afv oh 30 1,eh
which seems not to have been we'll under
stood when it passed the House, is the pr)
vision that if a defendant, on arraignment
pleads guilty, the Jnstice shall not MOTTO
the prosecutor or his deputy, and in no case
shall a fee be allowed prosecuting attorney
unless oe or his deputy is present"
The Gill introduced by Mr.. Rivers, of John.
SOD, providing that county offices shall be
declared vacant when the holders thereof
shall have been absent from them,
without good cause, for sixty days,
came no yesterday on q third read
ing and the entire afternoon was con-
SUM- ed in he discussion of It's provisio 4.
and the causes which gave rise to it's intro
d ctiop. Mr.. Reeves, of Bsrtholoma =,
moved to refer the b II to the Judiciary Com
mlttee, and explained that u wRs meant 10
affect only one person, Jefferson Glenn ner.
the Recorder OF JOHNSON County, who hsd
abandoned his Office, which was now filled
by his brother who bad paid off his debts.
He wanted the bill amended so as to exempt
this case from its provisions, because he be-
Ieved that the office was now competently
filled by a man who had sacrificed his
private fortune to paw the debts of aA erring
brother. a dozen or more members spoke
upon the bill. among them Mr.. Rivers, its
auihor, who claimed that the Tassage of the
bill was demanded by the people of his
county; that the present status OF affairs
left the records in doubt, and might be the
cause of endless litigation If some steps were
DOT taken to I'LL the Office properly. De de-
MED that there was any effort TO throw
Clemmer's brother out of the Office. but said
hat he had promised aud would use his in
huepce to have the present incumbent ap.
pointed by the Commissioners should the
bill pass. Considerable interest and nc
email amount OF feeling have been worked
up by the introduction OF the bill. and ~
10 adjournment yesterday no vote was taken
The matter will come up again on Monday
as unfinished business.