The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-14
THE LATE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

On the whole the House has made very
good record and the Senate a very poor one.
s-Terre Haute Tribune.
Two regrets are tackled upon the wall
the failure of the anti-Roby bill and of the
ant-metropolitan police bli.--Riehmond In
Northumberland.
The Republican Legislature came down
the home stretch with name and tail erect
and passed under the wire at a winning
clip.-Greencastle Banner-Times.
The record made is a fairly good one Its
work has been on the side of economy, land
it has in nearly all respects carried out
the promises made the people.--Connersvill
News.
The Legislature adjourned Monday night
by constitutional limitation. 1t has been, in
many respects, a representative body. There
are some sins of omission and commission,
but, whole, its proceedings have been
in the interest of the people.-Huntington
Herald.
For one, we believe that our Representa-
tives in the lawmaking branch of the State
have performed their duty faithfully and
well. and like the indianapolis Journal, we
believe that this will be the Judgment of
candid and reasonable men. and that they
have made good the pledges made by the
majority party to the people in advance of
their observation-disclosures Times.
The Legislature that adjourned yesterday
is likely to receive less credit than we think
it, That is always disadvantage to begin
with. We believe the final verdict will be
that no Legislature for, perhaps, ten or
IN ime the same ieng Of time espeeay When
so many political measures. were pressing
for Observation-Disclosures Herald.
While those who composed the two houses
may have been quite busy and worked hard
during the session it looks to an outsider
as if the result was rather small for the
Of eli
nificance that should have been enacted not
later than the third week of the session
Of The leadership on lie Republican side
was bad either from wanting of ability or
lack of desire and both houses We're in a
disorganized state most of the time.-Mun-
Gle News.
The act passed by the Legislature requir-
ing township trustees 70 keep record of
all warrants issued and all moneys ex-
pended and hand, and to publish the
same from time TO time causes some Demo
cratic newspapers to criticise the same and
scheme to get money out of the taxpayers.
To set these misguided Democratic journals
right we. will say that James n. Seller, g
Democrat, our Senator from Putnam and
Montgomery, is the author of the bill. The
| bill is all right, ana these published state
ments will cause much more care in the
| handling of township funds.-Greencastle
| Banner-Times.
| It will be long time before the people in
| Lake, Porter and IaPorte counties, who
were directly interested in the Superior
| Court bill becoming a law, forget the
| puerile manner in which the Governor en-
deavored to kill the bill with his veto in
| the eleventh hour, depending upon the for
| midable opposition in the House to prevent
| the bill receiving constitutional majority
| in the effort which would follow to pass
| it over the executive veto That the Gov
/ ernor's evident plan miscarried was due
| wholly to the indomitable energy of The
| friends of the bill, who threw themselves
| into the breech and succeeded in pulling
| the bill through the House with the baresi
| constitutional majorlty.-Hamnond Tribune
| The Legislature which expires by consti-
| tutional limitation at midnight tonight was
| the first one in which the Republican party
| had the power to legs1ate since 1873. Much
] was expected of it and those who are fail
| and candid must admit that it has accom-
/ piished much. To begin with, the majority
was large and unwieiuy, the landslide d
| 1894 having thrown up some thirty or forty
| members who had accepted forlorn hope
nomination only to be surprised with
| triumphant election. Some of these. doubt
/ less, would have been improved upon coulc
| the people have foreseen the political cy
| clone of last November. But there were
/ many capable and worthy men in the Leg
| islature and they were strong enough II
j the main to lead it wisely and safely ant
| the result is a very creditable and meri
| torious record.-Kokomo Tribune.