The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-10
County Assessors, County superin-
tcndents and Lake Superior Court
Bills Passed over yetoes.
THE APPROPRIATION BILL
AN INCREASE OF ABOUT $4,000 IN
THE ORIGINAL MEASURE.
Conference Committees Report
ON the Last Day Of the Session.

The work of the Fifty ninth General As
sembly is practically closed and on Mon
day both houses will adjourn, after wait
ing to act on any vetoes the Governor
may send to them. The Governor has but
one distinctively political measure in his
hands and that is the one busting Custodian
Tim Griffin of the Statehouse. 1t is claimed
by some of the Democratic officials at the
Statehouse that the Governor can hold this
bill until five minutes of IL Monday night
and then return it to the House. allowing
no time for the branches to pass it over
his objections. 1t has been further claimed
that engineer Mike Cain, the official bar
tender at the Statehouse, whom seven
Republican Senator's determined to retain,
will refuse to turn back the hands of the
electric clocks On the other hand, friends
of the Governor say he will not resort to
such picayunish methods.
The benevolent institutions bill is still
in the hands of the Governor and there
is some speculation as to what action he
Will take with it. Some Republicans have
been sanguine that he would sign it, but
this belief is not generally shared. If he
Vetoes It, it will be passed by both houses
Monday.
The apr opriation bill was finally agreed
TO last night at o'clock, after a joint
conference committee had worked on it
several hours and only in a few instances
did the House recede from it's bill. When
the bill came into the House from the
senate with amendments, Mr.. Allen, chair
man OF the committee ways and means,
moved to reject all amendments and the
Chair immediately appointed Mr.. Allen
and Mr.. Robinson members of a joint
conference committee. Messrs. Haggard,
and Newby were chosen for a like service
from the Senate by President Nye
AS result of the conference the ap-
preparation for the Central Hospital for
the Insane was raised from 1884 900 to $24O
600. compromise. and the State Prison
North appropriation was made 900 in
stead of $4,000. The Knightstown Soldiers
and Sailors Orphans Home was allowed
5000 for the purchase of farm lands, s., 900
was given to the Industrial department
of the State Institution for the
Blind. and Reporter Moon of the
Supreme Court was allowed 5000 ex-
Penses in making up Supreme Court reports.
old claim for furnishing supplies to the
Prison South: Altogether, about So, 600 for
the two fiscal years is added to the House
appropriation BILL In both houses the re-
port of the conference committee was ac-
cepted by unanimous votes.
The Governor sent four vetoes to the
Assembly during the day, and the four
accompanying bills were promptly passed
over the veto. One of these bills related to
the limiting of services of county assessors,
the other to the creation of the Lake,
Porter and LaPorte counties Superior
Court and the others to the election of
county superintendent by township trus-
tees in September instead of June and the
Jackson county seat removal The Senate
also passed the congressional apportionment
bill over the executive objections, the House
having taken like action before.
Several important bills that were expected
to pass have died, some having passed one
or the other of the branches. The Board
man bill, taxing the street railroads of In
danapolis for the benefit of a park fund,
was consigned to oblivion in the Senate.
act of 1891 did not get through the Senate,
and several of the Senators who voted
against 1t are the same men who voted to
retain Mike Cain and who were absent when
the metropolitan police bill failed to get
over the veto.