The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-13
Through with Practically No
Opposition.
FEE AND SALARY WRANGLE
SENATE AND HOUSE COMMITTEES
ON DIFFERENT TACKS.
Joint Caucus Committee on Benevo-
lent Institutions Fails to Agree on
an Appointing Plan.

The bill taking the Indianapolis Public Lii
brary out of the hands of the School Board
and placing it under the control OF board
of directors was rushed through the House
yesterday under suspension of the conStl-
tutionaI rules seventy-nine of the members
voting for it's passage and only three voting
against it. The bill has been before the
Legislature scarcely week, but 1t is quite
probable that it will become a law before
another week. The board of directors is to
consist of six members, three to be appoint
ed by the judge of the Circuit Court Cnow
a Democracy and three by the county clerk
(now a Republican, 1t is the intention to
thus take the library entirely out of poll
ties as it is supposed the Circuit Court
Judge is freer from political influences than
any other public official in the county After
the expiration of the terms of the first set
of officers, the appointing power Will rest
with this official alone. Civil service is pro-
vided for the employees of the library, and
the bill contains a section whereby the city
will get the benefit of the interest OF any
moneys on deposit.
When the bill was called up from COM
mittee and it was proposed to suspend the
constitutional rules, a few members object
ed, but when the nature of the Dill was
more fully explained the opposition dwin-
is as follows:
Section /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Indiana, That
in every city in the State OF Indiana, Where
q board of school commissioners has been
established by law, and is managing une
school affairs of the city under the act OF
the General Assembly of the State OF lndt-
ana, entitled an act providing for general
system Of common schools in all critics or
thirty thousand or more inhabitants, etc,
approved March 3, 1871, there IS hereby es-
tablished library board, which shall De
and is a body polite and corporate under
and by the name ana deslgn naid OIL 'i is
constituted, followed by the words LII
brary Board"
members, of whom three shall be appointed
by the judge of the Circuit Court or the
county in which such city is located, and
three by the clerk of said Circuit Court
such appointments to be made within ten
days from the taking effect of this act All
the members shall be residents of the city
in which such board is established. The
said judge and clerk, in their respective
certificates of appointment shall each oes
ignate one of said members to serve two
years. one for three and the other for four
years from and after the date OF their ap-
pointment.
which the members of such board rave
been appointed two members shall be am
nually appointed by the judge of the Circuit
Court of the county in which said city is
located, to hold office for a period Of three
years, and until their successors have been
ring in the board, otherwise than by the
expiration of the terms of office of the mem
bers, shall be filled by an election by the
remaining members of the board. No MEM
Der shall receive any compensation for SER
vices SUCH
Sec A. Such board within one week from
its appointment shall elect from its members
a pre- sident, and shall also elect a secretary
treasurer librarian an assistant nx IL
deemed necessary. The president and treas
urer shall be elected for a term Of one year,
and such other officers as may be elected
shall hold for terms to be fixed by the Ii
brary board
Sec. 5. All appointments of employees by
said board, other than those of librarian
assistant librarian and secretary, shall be
determined by competitive examinations I'M
der such reasonable restrictions as may be
established by said board; but this provision
shall not be construed to limit said board S
power of dismissal, or to affect appoint
ments of those who may now be serving In
such library.
Sec s. The treasurer need not be a men,
'ber of the board. but may be amy person or
qualified corporation elected by such board
The treasurer shall give bond in sum to
be fixed by the board to faithfully account
for all moneys of the board which shall
come into his hands, to pay out the same
upon order of the board, and to account to
the board for all interest which may be
received by him treasurer; provided, that
such board may contract with any trust
company, banking association, corporation
or partnership to serve as treasurer upon
an agreement to pay interest on all moneys
of the board in the treasurer's hands at
an agreed rate
Sec. T. Immediately upon the organiza-
ton of such board it shall become the owner
of and entitled to the possession of all prop
erty, real and personal, and all rights and
chooses in action heretofore vested in said
Board of School Commissioners of such city
for the of a public library, and shall
session of all land and buildings thereon
situated, and of all furniture, books, maps,
scription now used for library purposes by
said Board of School Commissioners; and
all buildings which shall have been paid
for out of the library fund of said Board
of School Commissioners, or which have
been erected in whole or in part for library
said library ' fund or Sorrowed by i said
Board of School Commissioners for the con-
rr OF 4b Of sna and be IN
belong to said library board; but such por-
ton of said building or buildings as may be
ers for school purposes may be retained by
such board for such purposes until the first
ment of rent, but any my such Portion shall
be on that day vacated by said Board of
school Commissioners, and turned over to
said library board.
Sec. 5. Immediately upon the organiza-
ton of such board and the election of
the treasurer OF the Board of School Com
missioners of such city to account for and
turn over to the treasurer of such library
board, and to said library board, all funds
IN his hands belonging to the library fund
of said board, and all claims bils. NOTES;
which may be in the hands of said Board of
School Commissioners.
Sec. 9. 1t shall be the duty of the treas
urer Of such city, whether he be city treas
drer or county treasurer serving as city
treasurer, on and after making his settle
ment with the proper auditing officer on
the third Monday in April, 1895, to make
payment to the library board of the amounts
by such settlement found to be due to it.
And such treasurer shall. at the close of
each calendar month, make report veri-.
fled by his oath to said library board, of
all taxes and delinquent taxes collected
within such month upon the levy made
as provided hereafter in this act and there
after, upon demand of the treasurer of such
library board, shall pay to him as such
treasurer the full amount of such taxes.
and delinquent taxes shown by such report
to have been collected. Upon such pay
ment being made the treasurer of the Ii
brary board shall execute to said city or
county treasurer. as the case may be- his
receipt for the amount of money so paid
which receipts the latter shall deliver to the
secretary OF the library board, who shall
give him quietus therefor, and credit
said city county treasurer with the
amount thereof and charge said amount
to the treasurer of such library board.
Sec. TO- Said city or county treasurer
as the case may be, shall thereafter, in
his settlement with the county auditor,
make. required by law, the third