The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-23
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
The Bill Concerning Prosecutors Fees
In Pleas Of Guilty Defeated.
The Appropriation Bill Finally Taken
Up-The BREWER Reports
Other Notes

The bill OF Representative Klaus provid-
ing that in all suits by laborers for the re-
'covery of wages the Judgment shall include
n reasonable attorneys fee. and that no
change Of venue shall be allowed the defend
ant except upon an affidavit showing fully
the defenss and that the came was meri.
forious, was reported adversely from the
committee Saturday. The report was laid
on the table snd the bill ordered to second
reading to-day.
The bill psssed by the House some ten
Gays ago and afterward recalled from the
Senate, providing thst no prosecutors fee
shall be charged In cases where the defend
ant enters plea OF guilty, was called up by
its author, Mr.. Robinson, and a motion
made to fecommit with certain instructions,
enc of which was that the provisions of the
bill should not apply to cases where the fine
would exceed SIS. The motion to recon-
nit was defeated by vote OF 81 TO 81, the
result being the defeat OF the bill.
A resolution by Mr.. Butt authorizing the
CLERK of the House to purchase 500 Of the
maps of the State showing the districts as
provided for in the new Congressional aud
Legislative Apportionment bills and the
vote OF the respective parties therein, and
distribute the same among the members
provoked lively discussion. The argument
cations to provide members with political
msps of the State, and IL the members wished
10 supply their constituents they should do
so out Of their own private means The res
Clution was rejected by vote of AZ to 80,
At IL o'clock yesterday morning the
House went into Committee OF the Whole
on the General Appropriation bill, Mr.. Pat
ten abandoning his own bill and calling up
the measure evidently in the interest of an
early adjournment Mr.. Adams was called
to the chair, and the committee took up the
bill where 1t was left of some four weeks
agO. Mr.. Gordon moved 10 reject the item
appropTiating S24 600 to Purdue University,
and this question was discussed during the
entire sitting Of the committee, some dozen
or more members speaking for and against
it. When -the COMMITTEES rose yesterday
afternoon the motion was still under con-
sideration.
The Senate resolution adopting the Brewer
Reports, and fixing the compensation of w.
II. Draper for the same at twothirds of q
cent per page per copy q $50 copies to be
printed) was reported by the House yester-
day, after q discussion. in which several
members participated. Speaker Jewett took
the floor and spoke against the resolution,
declaring that the members bad bsen mis-
quoted in the reports and the House had
Dccu uirCLln1uhtcI dSdlust III lhNOf VI tue
Senate, the speeches in the latter body being
fully and correctly reported, while those in
the House had been but partially, aud even
then not correctly reported. Others fol-
lowed in the same strain, and the rejection
OF the resolution was almost unanimous,
To the Editor OF the Sentinel:
The following paragraph appears in your
report of Legislative proceedings in Satur.
day mornings Sentinel
Mr.. Staley made an attempt to get an early con
sderation OF the Appropriation bill by moving
t0at the House meet at O'Clock last night for the
consideration OF the bill in Committee OF the
whole. AS might have been expected. the over
worked statesmen refused 10 meet at an hour SO
unseen y for men who working out their bes
days for a per diem OF sc.
Believing that the Sentinel desires to do
Justice IN its legislative reports. include
that the fact is forgotten that Mr.. Staley is
one Of those few Democrats VINO voted psr-
sists ntly and on ell occasions With the Re
publicsns) in the closing days of the regular
session against taking up the appropriation
bills else the above paragraph would have
appeared under some suca caption as "a
Death-bed Repentance" | would render
INTO Cesar the things that are Ce ,ar's, etc.
SMITH, of Perry.