The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-22
SHIP CANAL PROJECT.
Senator Haggard's Resolution Adopt
ed by the Senate.

Lieutenant Governor Nye was not pres
ent when the Senate met yesterday after
noon, and President pro tenn Newly called
the Senate to order. Prayer was offered
by Rev. Mr.. Sims. Senator Haggard. from
the committee on finance, presented ia
vorable report on the Haggard resolution
looking to the taking of steps for the con-
struction of a ship canal to connect the
navigable waters of the Wabash river with
Lake Michigan. President Newly appointed
Senator'S Haggard, Shiveley and Mclean
as the members of the committee which is
to make inquiry into the feasibility of the
project, and If it is found practicable the
committee is to report bill providing for
the employment of engineers and experts
to make survey of route and estimate
of the expense. This report is to be made
to the General Assembly at it's next session.
Senator Boyd introduced a resolution, the
purpose of which is designed to give an
attorney the right to consult with a client
confined in the Female Reformatory. The
resolution recites that such permission has
been refused by the officials of that fnsti-
tuition, except in the presence of an Off
cial or an attendant. 1t was set forth that
it was sometimes desirable to consult
client privately. and the denial of this
right was declared TO be in violation of
Section 60 of the Revised Statutes, which
provides that prisoners shall not be SUBJ
Jected to any unnecessary rigors. Senator
Kern said that attorney George Spar, of
THIS city, mad made complaint to him that
he had been denied the right to consult a
client in the reformatory, and Senator Kern
denounced the action of the reformatory
officials as outrage. The resolution was
adopted.
oena.or McCutchan, from the COMMITTEES
on military affairs, reported that the House
bill approprfatlng $4S, 513.09 for the payment
of the troops engaged in the suppression OF
the strikes of last summer had come to
mis- committee, and he asked that the COM
mittee be allowed to retire for few min
utes in order that they might report the
bill for passage. similar bill, he ex-
planned, had originated in the Senate, and
had passed, but the bill that had come
over from the House had been substituted
for the Senate BILL and the immediate pas
sage of it was necessary, because the notes
that the Governor had given in bank to
yesterday. The committee was permitted
to retire and in few minutes it returned
with a report recommending the passage
of the bill. The rules thereupon were sus-
pended and the bill was passed.
Senator Wishard, from the committee on
ports upon several bills one was Senator
Kern's bill to exempt the city of Indianapo-
lis from the provisions of the general sew
erage law, the construction cf sewers in
this city being governed by provision in
the city charter, and the tSo. provisions
creating conflict. Another bill favoraby
reported was the bill of Senator Kern Civ
ing the police judge of the city of Indian
apolis jurisdiction in cases of peti. larceny
Senator Kern offered an amendment to
this bill. increasing the salary OF the po-
lice judge in this city from 5000 to $500,
and the amendment was ordered printed
with the BILL Another bill recommended
for passage was Senator Wishard's bill pre-
venting railroad and street-rallway compa-
MES from building their lines through cem-
eteries in cities having population of a
hundred thousand and upwards. The bill
is designed to apply to Crown Hill Gene
terry only. The other bill reported with a
tse bii Of Senator stuart a
ing the salary of the coroner of
Marion county at $1,000 a year, with no
fees In support of this bill it was shown
that the office of coroner of Marion county
re- SITS the people about $11 900 year, for
outlay there was no visible return.
eport of the committee adopted
ator Mclean introduced a memorial
). ON Henry Urban, manager of the Terre
Haute tool and shovel works, on the sub
ject of convict labor, which was referred
to the committee on labor and labor sta
tistics. The memorial was adopted by a
meeting of the labor societies of Terra
Haute held yesterday afternoon.
It enters protest against the
contract convict labor system and
demands that the product of convict
labor when put on the market, shall be
stamped and sold as such, and asks that
the price of the product of convict labor be
kept up to the price of the product OF free
Summary of Senate Bills.
Bills were introduced in the Senate yes