The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-14

Mr.. Claypool from the same committee
reported a substitute compelling the door
keeper TO contine his force within the
limit provided by the statutes, seven in
all. He said the adoption of the majority
report would stamp the members as law
breakers.
Mr.. Gent favored the minority report.
The statute of 1881 fixed the number of
employees of the house. If the law was
wrong it should be amended. There were
men, he said, ready to give bond to per-
form the duties that are required by law
and to do it with less than one-half the
force that the report provides for. The
country had spoken for reform in no I'M
certain tone, and if the majority OF the
house did not carry out the wishes of
the people, it would sound the death
knell OF the party on every hill of the
state.
The substitute was lost by a vote of
50 to 81.
Mr.. Foulkner then offered an amend
ment reducing the number of doorkeepers
to ten. He said that he had been a door
keeper in the United State senate, and he
spoke from experience when he said that
ten doorkeepers for the Indiana house
were sufficient.
WI hlCOuilOuSu Saul JhdI III lCpOil, IL
adopted without amendment, would save
the state more than $4,000. The force
was to be reduced from twenty-nine, the
number employed in 1889, to fifteen. In
1881, when the law was passed providing
for seven door-keepers, the legislature
met at the courthouse, and there we're
but two doors to the room where the
house held sessions. n house now had
seven doors.
Mr.. Patten said he would prefer to open
the door himself when he entered the
cloak room, for he would not run the risk
OF having the doorkeeper swing the door
into his face.
The last thing the people OF his county
asked him when he left, was how many
~doorkeepers he would vote for.
Mr.. Harrell also favored ten doorkeep-
ers.
Mr.. Beasley said that the members had
not been sent here to make cheap reputa-
ton by cutting off from the pay roll a few
poor men who held doors. The
champion reformers OF the house
would soon have an opportunity to
make some reputation when the ques-
ton of fees and salaries and taxation
comes up. 1t had been suggested that the
members were law-breakers. The law
provided that members should receive no
| other compensation than S. per day. The
law especially provides that members
should supply their own stationery, yet
the gent emen who called the members
law-breakers was at that very moment
writing on paper furnished by the state.
In 1887 the cost of the house was S64.-
212.73. The cost of the officers and en-
ployes was S26, 712.73. The expenses OF
the house in 1889 was SEE, 726, of which
SIS, 726 vent TO employees. The estimated
cost of the per diem and mileage of the
session of 1891 is S4S, $40, of which S11 $50
is for officers and employees, making a
saving over the house OF 1887 of 1892,
and over the house of 1889 of ST., 4O6. IL.
Mr.. Gent also supported the amend
ment, and Mr.. Kelley made an eloquent
| speech in favor of reform and fifteen door
keepers. Mr.. Zoercher called the previous
question, and it was ordered. The amend
ment to reduce the doorkeeper's force
to ten was then defeated by a vote OF 43
to 80.
The counties were then called for the
introduction of bills. Att o'clock, when
the house adjourned, Randolph had been
reached. Tomorrow the speaker will an
nounce the standing committees. and the
call for bills will be resumed.
The following bills were introduced in
tue mouse yesterday DIV MT. helloQeT.
Imposing a fine from so to $500 on any
officer taxing constructive fees or collect
ing fees not clearly and plainly defined by
the statutes.
By Mr.. Guthrie-Providing for free
school books, and authorizing cities. towns
and townships TO levy taxes for the pur-
chase of the same. No county or state
uniformity provided.
BY Mr.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and regu-
lating the liabilities of employers to en-
ployes; making employers responsible
for the negligence of company employees.
BY Mr.. Johnson of Dearborn-Making
the contracts of school teachers null and
void when entered into with trustees
whose terms of office expire during the
term OF school for which the teachers
were hired.
By Mr.. Kelley-To abolish the grand
jury system.
Also, to protect employees from employ
ers, making it unlawful for the latter to
retain any part of the formers earnings
Dol the pretense of investing the same.
BY Mr.. Kelleher--To amend Sec. 4 of
the olaotiop low providinu for tho nm