The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-04
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
The Wife-Beater Coming in For
Some Wholesome Legislation.
The House and Senate Adopt q RssO.
luton TO Adjourn April Is.
The Senate, More Liberal Than the
House, Appropriates s24. 900 to
Purdue-Other Notes.

The Senate yesterday passed the bill for
the relief of certain trustees in this county
who lost township funds by the late bank
failures in this county. The bill now only
wants the Governors signature to be effect.
i've in their behalf.
The bill of Mr.. Williams. providing that
but s. per month shall be charged as rental
for telephones where but one Is taken, and
$3.50 per month where two or more are used
by one subscriber, was passed by the House
yesterday. The bill further provides that
but 10 cents shall be charged for every five
minutes conversation over lines extending
TO neighbofiDg towns.
Representative Adams yesterday intro
duced a resolution 20 adjourn sine die on
Friday next Mr.. Williams moved to amend
bJ making the date Monday, A pril I3 The
an endment was adopted, aud unless the
House follows the example OF the Senate
snd reconsidsIs its action, the General As
sembly viii adjourn On that day, rs the
Senate Immediately concurTed 10 the reso-
luton and notified the House of It's action.
The bill providing forty stripes at the
whipping post as punishment for wife-bsst-
ers was eDgrossed yesterday, after bsiug
amended by Mr.. Smith, OF Tippecanoe. so as
Mr. Smith is a humanitarian, and, since the
House cut down the appropriation to Purdue
University, he believes in moderate reduc
tons, even in the punishment of the wife,
beaten. The thirty nine" he claimed, made
the punishment scriptural, and the word
flashes" made it legal.
Prosecutor staff, Hon. r. II. johnson. Hon.
William Neal and several other prominent
citizens of Johnson County, were upon the
floor of the House yesterday IN the interest
of the claim of NJ. r. Slater for 81 ,2i5, the
value of printing office destroyed b. q
regiment OF Pennsylvania soldiers ia 1864
The Claim has been presented to the proper
department at Washington, but has NOT been
Rcteu upon, not because il is not lust but
because the Government has steadily re
fused 10 pay any claims which originate
from Epoliation by the army.
=, The Senate yesterday restored the appro.
priation to Purdue University iby making
the item S24 0O0 as in the bill when first In.
troduced in the House. The latter reduced
the sum, after q heated discussion running
through two or three days to SIS 500, and
this Was finally accepted by the friends of
Purdue as the best that could be gained from
the House. The Senate having restored the
oTlginaI item, conference comnittee will
be appointed. but it is doubtful if the House
will concsde 10 any increase.
Senator MarshalIs bill requiring ballots
at general and special elections 10 be placed
in 8 sealed envelope three and oue.half
inches in length and one inch wide before
handed TO the Inspector, was read second
time in the House yesterday. The act also
requires that the envelope when opened by
the Inspector for the purpose of counting
GhNnl6 ho
tanned more than one ballot, and no bsllot
should be reckoned in the count unless in
closed in an envelope. On motion of Mr..
GoodiDg the enacting clause was stricken
out.
Senator Macy's bill regarding the duties of
the Clerk of the Supreme Court and increas-
ing his bond to $4,000 was read third time
in the House yesterday. It is claimed that,
under the present law, the Clerk is not COM
PEELED to turn over unclaimed fees to his
successor, and the new bill seeks TO provide
against a Clerk going out with these fees in
bis pocket by requiring him to turn them
over TO his successor. 1t also requires that
be Keep record of all fees, and that these
shall be open to public inspection. The bill
failed for want OF constitutional majority
Is TO 81.
Senator Weir's Appellate Court bill was
read second time in the House yesterday.
1t provides for the election of five Judges,
whose decisions shall be final in all cases
within the limits prescribed. The Governor
is 10 appoint the first judges, of whom not
more than three are to he of the same politi-
cal party. Three of them are to hold office
for the full term. four years, and the success.
sors of two are to be elected at the expira-
ton Of two years. The Judge residing in
each OF the districts named in the bill is to
be elected by the voters OF such district. The
court is to hold its sessions in this city in
rooms to be provided by the Auditor of State,
and the Clerk and Sheriff of the Supreme
Court are to act in the same capacity for the
Court of Appeals The bill was referred to
the Committee on Judiciary.