The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-22
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
Representative McHenry Introduces a
High License Liquor Bill.
Senator voorhees, FORMALLY Declared
Elected TO the Senste-Other
Legislative Matters.

George ". Ham, of Hancock County, is q
candidate for Director Of the Southern
Prison.
Owing to the continued illness OF Chair
man Johnson, Senator Duncan, of Blown.
was Yesterday made Chairman of the Com
1nittee on Education.
Senators Drake. Day, Lindley and Smith,
of Jay, Yesterday presented petitions for in
SiFucfi0n in the public schools on the effects
OF alcohol on the human system.
bill has been introduced to make the
termEof County Treasursrs uniform, their
terms to expire on the 31st of December In
the year in which they expire by law.
The report of the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee that the bill making al ettorney fee
clauses in notes illegal lie on The table has
been made the special order for Friday at
, O'Clock.
The President OF the Senate announced
yesterday that he had caused copies of the
joint resolution, regarding pensioning of
sIoiers 70 be forwarded to our Senators and
REPRESENTATIVES in Congress.
The House Committee reported favorably
yesterday on the Kruger bill, amending the
Constitution so as to increase the terms of
o. county officers to four years, and pre-
1sBtiDg ths holding Of the same Office twice
n succession.
Sr. McHenry has introduced bill in the
House fixing the licence fee for Sc ling vlnous.
malt and other Intoxicating liquors in any
county IN the State at $500. For license to
sell vinous and malt liquors only, the fee is
placed at $500
Senators Bailey, Hilligass, Duncan, of
Brown; Thompson, Sellers, EmsIey and
Moon have been appointed Com mites on
Labor ana Labor Statistics, and Thompson,
Rahm, Null. Bailey, Schloss, Day and Faux.
Ter Committee on Cities.
Senator Faulkner received a telegram yes
terdsy from Hon. Will Z. English, stating
that he had rendered to Senator VOORHEES,
the use of the Opera House on Monday,
Tuesday or Wednesday next, for the pur-
pose OF addressing the Legislature.
With salary OF s.. 500, chief clerk aud
m assistant, with salaries of 81 200 end $500,
respectively, and AZ expense fuud of S4G0,
rs fixed by Representative Smiths bill. il
looks As II the superintendent of Poblic In
struction ought 70 jerk through almost any
kind Of weather.
Representative Reeves, Of Bartholomew,
has introduced bill which provides that in
trial of civil causes in Superior and Circuit
Courts, the sheriff shall place eighteen mem.
oers OF tbs regular panel In the iury. box
The plaintiff and tbs defendant shall each
have the right - reject three members OF
me jury no selected and the remaining
twelve shall constitute the jury TO try the
cause.
bill changing tho school law in some
I'm portant respects has been introduced by
Representative Dittemore, of Owen. 1t pro-
vides that the Superintendent shall be elect
cd by the Board Of County Commissioners,
Am That his Per diem shat be 81 so The
weTd SUPPLEMENTARY has been changed
20 School Examiner" the old title On
motion 200 copies CT the bill were ordered
printed.
The sum of $4,000, appropriated for the
State University, will be expended in the
following manner: Steam heating, $500;
gas fitting. 50 600; furniture, g. 600; show
cases for specimens, $4,000; grading and
beautifyiDg the campus, $1,000; chemical
laboratory 5000; physical laboratory,
$500; library, S15, 600; museum, s. 900;
botanical department, 81, 600. Before the
hre the college library contained 5000
books; now there are 800: its museum was
isrge and excellent and Was wholly de.
stloyed. The appropriation ID asked for on
the ground of necessity.
At II o'clock yesterday the Senate aud
House met in joint convent1on a, Lieutenant
Governor Manson presiding. After calling
the body to order, the chairman stated that
the object for which the two bodies had met
was to compare the votes as cost in the SEN
ate and House the day before for United
States Senator. The journals were then
read, and showed that Hon Daniel W. Voor-
heee had received 4 majority of fourteen
votes in the Senate and majority OF
twenty-nine votes in the House. He was
then formally declared elected United States
Senator for Indiana for term Of SIX years
rom the 4th Of March next.
''Colored Voter writes the Sentinel thus:
"The action of the Democratic party in the
legislative body assembled, through the
agency of Senator w. c. Thompson, Of Ma
rion County, in the introduction of State
Civil Rights bill. aud the simultaneous OTTER
ing of bill in the House BY Hon. X. g. ].
Pendleton, also OF this county, to repeal
sections 2 l36 and 2 49, of the Revised Sat
,utes of 1881, on the subject OF smaigamation,
II order TO rid the statute books OF the State
OF Indiana of ali obnoxious laws which dis
eliminate against the coored people IS
race, put 10 silence the oft-repeatsd
s.sseIt ton that the Democratic party is
1nisisudly to the cosored man. As colored
~mtn We are daily tainted with this base
1mPutetion, Notwithstanding the tradition
- the IaEty, IS promulgated by its founder,
Ihonlas Jefferson, THAT AL men are created
free and equal, end endowed By our creator
With. certain inalienable rights, among
WREN. are lie and liberty and the pursuit
Of happiness"
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