The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-26

The Call of Counties Completed and
the SACRED Compact" Is Carried Out.
The House Passes O Bill Continuing the
Etate-Iiouse Tax, and Authorizing an
Additional Loan Of 100000.

The order of business allowing each member
20 designate one bill to be disposed OF, which was
entered upon in the House a week before
the end of the regular session, and was made
the basis of what has come to be known as the
sacred compact" by which majority
made a special session necessary, finally
reached an end Yesterday. 1t had
been the pending order during the whole Of the
time since the beginning of the special session.
The last county was called early in the after
noon, and at 8 o'clock the bill providing funds
for continuing the work on the new State-house
building, which was one of the important meas
ures mentioned in the Governors special session
proclamation, was passed. after brief discussion,
under suspension of the rules There now re-
mains only two bills of essential Importance
the general and specific appropriations--and
these can easily be passed during the present
week, so there is no apparently good reason why
the Legislature should not adjourn sine die
within very few days.
THE NEW sTATE-HoUsE REVENUES.
The bill TO raise funds for completing the new
State-house building, which passed the House
yesterday, provides that in addition to continur
ing the special tax levy of cents the assessed
valuation of 800. there shall be temporary
loan of 5000 to reimburse the State-house
fund for about 5000, 600 which has been diverted
from If, and to give the commissioners sufficient
money to continue work until the revenue from
the tax levy is collected. The bill also appror
pirates $780, 900 to be used in furnishing the
building and impHoying the grounds. and 500
600 is appropriated from the general fund for
completing the building. The tax levy OF 2
cents may continue continue, TOT sar n ssn Years n
hquidating the Indebtedness which will be
incurred by borrowing $500 900 on the temporary
loan bonds which the State officers are author
lied to issue 1t is estimated that the bill con-
templates an increase in the States debt burden
during the next two years, including the special
tax levy, of about 5000, 600.
THE REJECTS OF sTlMULANrs.
The bill requiring that the effects upon the
human system OF alcoholic stimulants and mar
cOtics shall be taught in the public schools has
been kind of ghost to the Senate. The quss-
ton has been brought up in some manner
nearly as often as once week since
the beginning of the regular session, and
petitions for the passage of the bill, bearing
thousands of signatures, have been received
from all parts of the State The matter has run
a course of ups and downs just now it is up
again. The bill was once defeated, but one sim
liar in character was passed by the Houses and it
was brought up for consideration in the Senate
yesterday. 1t passed to engrossment after
prolonged debate, by vote of twentyfour to
twenty-one The members who voted against
the bill, all Democrats, were Senators Benz,
Brown, Bryant, Duncan of Brown. Ernest, Fow-
ler Howard, Johnston, Magee, May,
Mcclure Mccullough, Rahm, Sellers,
Smith Of Jay, Thompson, Smith of
Jennings, Weir, Willard and Zimmerman. The
Democratic members who voted in favor of en-
crossing the bill were Senators Day, Faulkner,
Hill Hilligass, Hoover, Mcintosh, Petersen,
Richardson and Shively