The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-27
IN THE SENATE.
Action Taken on an Immense Number OF
Bills.

Bills.
In the senate Wednesday bills were intro
duced:
BY Barrett Is. SS7l, to prohibit petroleum
oil companies from carrying product out OF the
state.
By Burke 1857, to fix salaries of warden and
other officers of southern prison.
The bill to amend the act for the relocation
OF county seats passed; also, the bill making
/ Hancock county the eighteenth and Henry the
/ Fifty-third judicial circuit; also, the supreme
court commission bill: also, the bill to estab-
/ lish state department of geology.
The finance committee reported fayorably
bill to appropriate 500 600 for the state univer-
\ sty. Other bills were reported favorably:
/ For a custodian of the state house; TO prevent
I the deliberations of vinegar; TO regulate the
! sale OF drugs; 10 fix the compensation OF the
/ attorney general; TO amend the metropolitan
| police bill by including the fire department. TO
/ establish board OF public works in cities of
/ $1,000.
| The bill for state board of charities passed.
The bill 10 prohibit the obstruction OF bitches
/ passed to the third reading.
Nlr. Ewing was sworn IN as a member from
/ Shelby and Decatur.
! In the senate Thursday Mr. Shockney's bill
I 70 regulate insanity inquests passed; also, Mr..
/ TaylOrs city sinking fund bill; also, Mr.. Al
/ fords Beaver lake land bill also, Mr.. Dressers
( Dill 10 authorize corporations TO cOuQucI nedll0
resorts and manufacture medicines; also. the
! bill 10 appropriate 100000 10 the state uni
versity also, Mr. kennedy's g 905 0OOlOan bill,
/ the bonds 10 be redeemable after fifteen years;
/ also, Senator Francis Michigan City legalizing
/ bill: also, Mr. JOhnson's bill exempting GER
/ tain teachers from examination; also, Mr..
/ kerth's bill appropriating $lSJ,O0O for the adj
/ ditiOnal insane hospitals; also, the bill appro-
priating 81, 600 for the boys reformatOry; also,
| Mr.. Hudson's bill requiring the registration OF
| MIN 1l,arc salca Afr
ton court bills also, Mr. Hoy's bill to prohibit
! the use OF stoves in baggage and passenger
| cars; also, Mr.. Byrd's anti-pluck-me store bill.
! Mr.. Andrews bill authorizing county COM
/ missiOners to regulate charges on toll roads was
| ordered engrOssed.
The bill 10 change the manner of enumerat-
| ing school children was indefinitely postponed.
NJ. NJ. Morrison's appointment as reading
| clerk confirmed
| MeSsrs. Burke and Howard were named as
democratic members OF the insane asylum IN
| vesugating COMMITTEES. and Hays and Shockney
| the republican members.
The house school.boOk bill was read second
time and ordered printed.
! The bill Tor the burial Of pauper soldiers and
/ sailors WAS ordered to third reading.
/ The committee on corporations reported
/ favOrabiy the bill for the incorporation of fair
/ associations, etc. and the bill 20 permit bridge
/ companies to run street ears. The majority
| favored and minority opposed the telephone
/ repeal bill.
The first business of the senate Friday was
/ the hearing of reports of committees which
recommended the passage OF the following
I bills: II. r. IS, TO create q new judicial dis
/ trict: II. r. 2i9. to provide for the election OF
1 three trustees each for the insane, the
/ blind and the deaf institutions; II.
/ r. y, TO encourage the construction
/ of levees; II. H. 63, for the examina-
! ton of common school teachers IN cities OF
| 1000 or over III; K 800, to regulate the hours
| OF labor for mechanics, etc; ;. $50, for street
/ through Military park; 5. 1856. to prohibit the
/ sale of tobacco to persons under sixteen years
\ o. age; ). 365, to maintain township libraries;
/ $. 26S, 10 amend the act authorizing the levy OF
! school tax.
/ Majority and minority reports were made on
/ the liquor bills unfayoTable and lavorble, re-
/ spectively.
/ The following bills were indefinitely post
/ pOned: = 49, 20 authorize the sale OF the
vacant square north of the blind asylum. $.
! 2SS, to provide for the examination OF special
\ teachers in the public schools.
I The bill 70 aid gas pipe lines was laid on the
| table.
The finance committee reported substitute
\ for Momence rock removal bill.
The following bills passed:
s p. TO amend the act regulate the practice Of
medicine. surgery and Obstetrics.
/ ) lSO, q enable county commissioners TO pur-
chase tOll-rOsds and to declare them free to the
public.
: 2s, to pay and reimburse Simon P Thompson
5 l2s, TO make accessories to criminal act charge
able principals.
/ county, the nth, and to leave Clark county in
/ circuit by itself the fourth.
| ; 80, to regulate the manufacture and sale Of
S ~, TO prescribe the manner in which telephone
/ companies may be allowed 10 occupy highways,
H. r. S2s, to prohibit the obstruction of bitches.
! The supreme court commission bill passed
/ over the governors veto.
! A large number of bills which had passed
/ the house were read the first time.
J a resolution requesting Indiana senators and
\ representatives TO vote for the areas of PEN
| sions bill passed.
The bill to exempt ex-sOldiers and sailors
/ from work on the roads failed 10 pass for lack
/ OF a constitutional majority.
! In the senate Saturday, reports from com.
mittees recommend the passage OF the following
/ described bills:
H. R. 2S4, TO fix the salary OF certain county
and township officers; Ii. K. 542. concerning
\ the building of railroads to coal mines; III. r.
Ito, 20 amend 1,463 X. $ of the justices act;
/ II. L. LIZ, for the relief of an ex-trustee OF
! Dearborn county; II. r 81, to amend sec. 2O9
/ of the crimes act OF April a. 1887; s. 49, to
amend sec. 2l7 OF the public Otfense act of
| April IL, 1881, also with an amendment to the
bill H. r. 422) for the organization OF an inter
! state fair; II. X. 34S, amending taxation.
ii. r. 470 TO authorize the governor, auditor
| and treasurer Of state 10 borrow money; :. 90
70 provide q revision OF the municipal OF cities
| and towns; :. 359, to define the duties of town.
ship trustees; II. K. i5l, TO authorize cities TO
condemn and appropriate for public use the
| shares OF any company owning a bridge over
! streams forming a state line; s. 347, 10
provide for public printing in counties by
public officers; :. 294 TO amend sec.
6,45o OF act concerning taxation;
! s 3SS, authorizing streets and alleys
through grounds belonging to the state board
! OF agriculture.
The following bills were indefinitely post
poned: H. X. 225, TO prevent the spread of hog
] cholera. II. X. AL, TO authorize cities and
! towns TO construct and operate natural gas
/ works. ii. Il. AZ, 10 authorize county commits
sioners 10 appropriate money for the erection
! of soldiers monuments.
A large number of house bills were read and
/ referred.
The Peasants school book bill passed; also
! the bill to prohibit the use of dynamite within
1900 yards of any ledge of building rock; the
bill appropriating $4,000 for the removal of
I Momence rock.
The following bills we're passed 10 the third
reading: III. X. 167, concerning the purchase Of
toll roads; II. r. SO, to define the Nineteenth
| and Fiftieth judicial districts; Ii. r 332 for
the regulation of the state library; 8. So to
encourage the erection and operation of water
works in towns by Incorporated associations;
/ =. 34S concerning the official terms of the d.
| rectOrs Of the northern state prison-a substi-
tute presented by Senator Francis was adopted.
The judiciary committee recommended the
| indefinite pOstponement of the bill III. r 900 to
testamentary beQuests: and the passage of the