The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-08

hat man and all other whole
the contract plan" All the various
plans" are practically the same. That Is.
the jobbers buy from the manufacturers
or producing trusts by an ironclad scale or
prices and at the time Of purchase agree
to sell according to the scale of prices fur
nished them by the manufactured from
whom they buy, and some Of these plans
reach over even 10 retailer. They argued
that these plans permitted the man of small
capital TO do business with as much safety
as the man with larger means buying In
larger quantities and tended to the locali-
cation instead of Capitalization of business.
When the chairman of the committee asked
II anybody present cared TO represent the
consumer in the hearing. lonely Populist
arose and meekly remarked that there
seemed to be general confession that
everybody was i'm combine OF some sort
or other and that it was just this sort of
thing that the consumers wanted TO get at
with antitrust legislation The House COM
Linck bill. which is practically a copy Of
the Georgia measure
PRISON REFORM
The question of prison reform has been
taken up in real earnest by this session
through the influence Of the prison reform
committee of holdover senator's appointed
under a resolution adopted at the close of
the last session. This commission, COM
posed of Senators Holler. Ellison and Dun
can, went about its work very thoroughly,
and should it's recommendations be carried
out Indiana would have probably the most
advanced prison system in the country. The
Senate has already passed one of the COM
missions bills providing for an indeter-
inmate sentence, and has before it now an
other measure providing for an intermedi-
ate prison or reformatory for younger and
less hardened criminals.
Bills to regulate the practice of medicine
and that of pharmacy are upon their way
in both branches. AS there is general agre-
ment about the latter il will probably be
passed with little or no changer but those
who are familiar with previous efforts to
get legislation on the subject of regulating
the practice of medicine know that IL will
be somewhat remarkable If the various
schools of medicine do not fall out about
the matter before the bill is well on to-
wards passage and put stop to it,
The question of fees and salaries is likely
to be forced to the front during the next
two weeks. bill has been prepared for
the purpose OF correcting the hardShips and
inequalities that arise under the present
law, and il is said TO have sufficient back
ing TO cary it through the Legislature. The
bill grades the salaries of county officers
according to population. dividing the coun-
ties of the tate into twelve different classes.
The scale of salaries runs a little less than
half those now paid and the officers are
given 30 per cent. of the earnings of their
offices. The authors of the bill explain that
this will in measure graduate the pay ac-
cording to the amount of work done in the
offices and the amount that must neces-
sarily be expended in employing help.
on the question of correcting the evils of
local government that are continually crop
ping out, particularly among township
trustees and county commissioners, there
have been numerous bills introduced but
the most important one, that of Mr.. Roots
limiting the expenditures of township trus-
tees, was defeated in the House the other
day. 1t is possible that q similar measure
will get through, but the House has al
ready passed the bill providing for a COM
mission to deal with this subject, and there
is disposition to leave the subject of local
government to this commission. which will
have couple of years time in which 10
work out details and get reliable data upon
which to construct a good system In both
county and township government.