The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-16
: THE INDIANA PRESS.

The men whom the people elect to make
their laws waste too much valuable time in
idle talk.-Plainfield Progress.
1t is conceded that sixty-one days is not
sufficient time for the transaction of legis-
lative business in this State every two
years. The sessions ought to last at least
ninety days.-Evansville Journal.
s. The Legislature of Indiana did itself great
honor and the State a great service by
the enactment Of the, Nicholson temperance
BILL The measure IS IN no sense radical
one, but at the same TIME it is long step
in the right INSTRUMENTATION Republican.
OF the total number of bills introduced
in the Fifty-ninth General Assembly only
one in eight became law. The length of
the session should be materially increased
III order to give the necessary time to leg
islate for the people wisely.-Warren Re-
publican.
The late Legislature did some of those
things which it ought not to have done,
and left undone some things which it ought
to have DONE butswhen one considers the
multitude of fool things which might have
been done, but We're not done, the record
is not bad one.-Terre Raute Tribune.
The liquor law of Indiana. as ii stands,
and if permitted to remain on the statute
books holds every retail dealer to strict
accountability, and IL honestly enforced the
State over will largely. reduce the number
of saloons and hold those able to exist
uron a so-called respectable plane.-New
Castle Courier
The prohibiting of druggists to sell liquors
in any quantity except the purchaser is
armed with a physicians prescription will
necessitate saloon patronage and many dol
lars will be dropped into the Golfers of the
saloonist by temperance people that now
go to enrich the dealers in drugs.-Roches-
ter Republican H
One legislator opposed the, drug store
amendment to the Nicholson bill because
he said it would drive the country drug
stores out of existence. Not all of them,
we think, but a man who has been rum
ming a saloon under the guise of drug
store ought to have such business knocked
out.-Greenfield Republican.
The State prisons should not be
verted into manufacturing establishments
for the production of articles to be placed
on the market in competition with the
products of free labor Prison-made arti-
cles should be marked as such and the
prices at which they are sold should be put
little if any below those articles of like
quality made by free labor-Middietown
News.
There is not a man who has kept in
formed on the dongs of the Legislature
but knows that the session which adjourned
Monday has been by far the best which
has assembled in many years. 1t cut down
expenses. lowered appronriat tons, reduced
the State levy and decreased the number
OF officers to be elected or appointed 10
do the public business. This is not all, but
is not this sufficient to commend 1t to pup
lie fayor?-Lebanon Patriot
The Republican Legislature followed the
long recognized doctrine of the party CIV
ing the benevolent institutions to nonpar-
tisan control and the appointing power to
the Governor, but twisted it sadly when
it placed the appointing of the prison di-
rectors in the hands of a board consisting
of the Governor and State officers. 1T may.
however, result in better manaeement
for the prisons than under the directors
heretofore elected by the Legislature
Owen County Journal
Among the bills passed by the Legisla-
ture and signed by tile Governor was one
requiring township trustees to keep and
publish once year in one newspaper of
general circulation a complete record of
the receipts and expenditures Of public
funds in their Office Township money will
be carefully handled and dfSbursed when
complete record of il is required to be
spread before the taxpayers. The law VIII
be worth to the people vastly more than
it will cost them.-Richmond Palladium
There is no doubt but what the late
Legislature contained some members who
knew very little about lawnaking, simply
from the fact that their names We're placed
en- the tickets last fall just to make out
the ticket That was the case in many
great tidal wave, and Of course 1t was too
late then to make any change 1t should
tend as a warning in the future. Never put
up anything but good, competent men for
office at any time. no matter what the condi-
lions may be.-Orleans Examiner.