Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-02-22
INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

lis TccOmmltlnent 10 the committee on
Railroads. After a heated debate it was so
rec0mmitted, by a vote of IS to IS.
The House passed the following bills:
Providing that railroad companies and
street car companies shall not run their
lines through cemeteries. Lcgalizing the
incorporation of Grand View. Spencer
County. and Alton. Crawford County. The
bill creating Board of Park Commissions
crS for the city of Indianapolis was passed
under suspension of rules. The military
reorganization bill appropriating $4,000,
was passed, and Dinwiddie'S prize-iight
bill was ordered engroSsed.
The Senate killed couple Of insurance
bills bearing on what are known as valued
policies.
The senate heard and adopted Commit
tee reports and then adjourned until Mon
day morning. Among the bills recon-
mendcd fer Pas age were lie following:
Senator Barnes bill to establish perma-
nent meridian lines.
The hill to reimburse certain persons for
diseased stock, killed by order OF tie State
Beard OF llcalta.
Senator Crulnl'acker's bill providing fer
aSySlem of public parks in the city Of In
dianapolis
The bill Of Senator Kern. providing for
the abolition Of the general term of Sd
perioT Courts.
II The House Monday the regular order
OF business WAS balls on second reading.
There Vas some discussion over House bill
No. 3iS. for an act regulating The doc tax.
The bill Was passed to third reading.
Among the other bills passed 10 third read
ing were the following:
Touching the duties of t0Wnship trustees:
reCrganizing the board of trustees Of Pur-
due [ University: relating 10 the running at
large of all kinds of animals: concerning
the dimensions of gravel roads on which
tolls are collected, providing that stch
roads shall be twelve feet wide and stall
have gravel twelve inches deep. to author
ize common councils TO license vehicles: TO
regulate teaming and hauling over turn
pixies: relating to the employment OF teach
ers by township trustees.
The Miller Bowers contest from the
Joint representative district of Dearborn.
Ohio and Switzerland counties was decided
in favor of Miller.
The following bills were introduced in
the Senate:
To prohibit the sale of pernci0uS litcra-
ture: fee and salary bill: to provide for
waterway from Lake Michigan TO the Wa
bash River. and To drain the Kankakee
swamp lands: To protect persons who have
been njured and have recovered iudg-
ment therefor: To amend the laws concern
ing civil eases.
The Senate passed the following bills
Tuesday:
Providing that fencing and drain tile shall
be a lien on property: authorizing trustees
of religious and charitable institutions TO
receive donations: providing that auditors
of counties from which cases are sent on
change of venue may make inquiry into
bill of expenses charged; providing fcT the
appointment of a food and dairy commits
sioner: declaring a road that has been used
five years public highway: requiring
railroads TO build their tracks to grade
with the streets: placing the keys of the
jury box in the hands OF the jury commits
siGner of opposite politics to the clerk:
providing that the salaries of county COM
misSi0nerS in counties of G0,000 or over,
shall be 81 ,20U year: appropriation $4,000
annually to enable the State Board of Ag-
riculture 10 pay premiums.
The House adjourned at 800 O'Clock to
porlunity to attend the Lincoln League
meeting. The bill prohibiting football and
baseball OH Sunday was engrossed.
The bill requiring farmers to take out
license before selling produce in cities and
towns WAS referred 10 the Committee on
Rights and privileges. and thereby killed.
The bill prepared by the Ways and Means
Committee providing for the exemption of
mortgage indebtedness from taxation to the
amount of $500 was amended 10 read 81 900.
and was ordered 10 engrossment. The bill
eXempting 500 Indebtedness on personal
property was also engr0ssed.
The House was engaged all day VI ednes-
day on committee reports. The ant-rail
read pass bill of Representative Robinson
was before the House f9r an hour and an
effort was made 10 refer the bill 10 the Com
mittee on Railroads. which would have
meant lis burial. The motion to refer was
defeated by a close vote. and the bill was
ordered TO Il second reading.
The senate was engaged all day with
bills Oh third reading. The most impor-
tant bill passed was the bin creating a fire.
mems pension fund. The following bills
were passed: Providing for an attorneys
fee of not less than So. to be paid by the de
PENDANT, where any citizen. mechanic. Ia
bOrer. servant or other employee has TO sue
for wages: Requiring township trustees 10
keep record of all persons TO whom aid is
granted from public funds: providing that
prosecuting attorneys may administer oaths
in certain eases: providing that upon the
petition of fifty-three holders the question
OF the construction of gravel or macadam
lied roads shall be left 10 vote of the lo-
cality interested: authorizing county COM
missioners To purchase and hold for fair
purposes fair grounds that have become
encountered with debt: providing for the
issue of bonds for the purchase of lands
and the erection thereon of school-houscs.
TIE Nicholson temperance bill was favor
ably reported from the House Temperance
Committee, Thursday. Representative
Nicholson wanted the constitutional rules
suspended and the bill placed upon its
passage. This caused wrangle, and an
attempt by Representative Holloway TO
stave off discussion until next Thursday
Representative Robnson's amendment to
postpone until Tuesday finally prevailed.
Representative Moorc's bill giving coun-
ellis the mower 81 say where SalOouS shall