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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-29
RAISES
An Anderson Labor leader on the Ar
hifrnfion RiII.

III
Senator Johnson has received an emphatic
protest against the passage of the bill in
troduced in the House by Mr.. Roose, pro-
viding for a board of commission of arbi-
tration and Investigation Of labor troubles.
from V. T. Morgan, of Anderson, n WELL
known labor leader iL the gas belt. Mr..
Morgan regards but one point of the bill
that which makes the arbitration voluntary
AS good. He objects to the bill because
the judge of the Circuit Court has no more
voice in the decision than either of the
other arbitrators. He regards such a board
as one-sided, as there would be but one
friend of the workingman on il. "An ex-
perience has shown he writes, mo mat
ter TO what kind of a board you submit
any questions, which ever side has the ma
iority will get the best Of the Judgment"
Mr. Morgan goes on the theory that the
Judge would favor the contentious of the
employer rather than those of the working
man.
Mr.. Morgan regards the provision that
when a decision has been made the power
of the court, may be invoked to enforce
obedience as imperative.
to run his works If the decision was against
him." he asks. He could In a dozen diff
ferent ways keep his works idle. On the
Oti0 lAlIO. IL lit uCClSlOI NtlC aSdlllSl
the ~wOrkingman, how could they compel
him? Suppose he should get up in the
morning with a headache or some other all
ment. would the sheriff, backed by the
State militia, come 10 him and say: Here,
you must either work or go to Jail|
He objects also TO the provision that the
party against whom the award is made is
not in contempt of court for not obeying
the award until his objections have been
heard and overruled by the court and he
still diSobeys the award. He regards this
as even more one-sided than the first pro-
vision TO which he objects. Mr.. Morgan
asserts tina the employer has a prestige
in court the workingman has not.
His objection TO the provision that in case
the parties refuse to arbitrate the commits
sioners. with the aid of the attorney gen.
eral. may investigate the facts and report
10 the Governor, is that IL is an easy mat
ter for an employer TO fix his books so as
to show an actual loss. He closes his OBJ
lection with these words:
Il am not in favor of this bill, for, while
L deprecate strikes and am opposed TO vio-
lence, L do not see anything III this bill TO
prevent them. l am Pleased TO see the bill
offered, for it will bring on a discussion
which will probably do some good. i think
it would be imperative were Ii passed., just
as all antitrust bills are
Mr. Morgan say there are bills before
the House and Senate which Will aid ma
teriaIly in reducing labor troubles among
them those providing for a state factory in
spectOr and the compulsory education
measures. He says that he understands
posed TO the latter on the grounds that they
must have boys TO do the light work OF the
factories. He would also indorse a bill that
would require employers TO pay the same
wages TO women as are paid TO men for do
ing like work.
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EDUCATIONAL MEASURE.
Its Explain Its Provisions to
the Joint committees.

At a Joint meeting of the Senate and
House education committees held in the Of
flee of State Superintendent Geeting last
night Superintendent Geeting and Superin-
tendent Goss. of the city schools, explained
the provisions of the bill, section by section.
Superintendent Goss said that there was
considerable misrepresentation as TO the
proposition to nave the State Board of Ed
ucation pass upon examination papers for
licenses. He said the only purpose of hav-
ing the papers sent 70 the board was that
their academic value might be rated. Cues
tons of personal equation and the peculiar
fitness of teacher for their work are still
to be decided by the county superintend-
ents. who are to work the gradings of the
teachers in that respect before the papers
are sent to the state board. After the
papers are returned with their markings
the superintendent is to take the average
between the markings of the papers and
the markings on personal qualifications
made by himself. The average of the two
furnishes the nSureS Tor licensing the
There was some discussion on the pro-
vision of the bill which fixes the term
of superintendent of city schools at four
years. Superintendent Goss SAID tnat II
was no more reasonable TO appoint a school
Superintendent for the term or one year
than il would be TO elect a circuit judge
for a like term. Neither of them could do
his whole and manifest duty. without IN
CURING enmities. BY increasing the term
of the city superintendent 10 four years the
feeling of unrest and uncertainty would De
eliminated and the superintendent might De
| expected to exert himself TO the utmost
In answer to a question on this subject Su-
perintendent Geeting said that the laws
provide that superintendent might De re-
moved at any time for incompetency Then,
it was asked, what benefit would 1T be to
the superintendent TO have the term In
creased? superintendent Goss said IT was
a serious thing to bring charges OF I'M
peachment against a man. so long as ne
was elected for one year there was no sta
bility TO the office.
Representative Nicholson asked If there
was any danger that incompetent mer
would be retained because of the unwlll.
ingness of school boards to make charges
Senator Early said there was danger alont
that line. but that the damage 10 tnt
schools from that direction could not be
| so great as that which they suffer by con
slant changes. other provisions OF the oil
were discussed at length. various memDerS
of the committed seemed TO De more Ia
yorably impressed with the bill than they
had been before.
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Senate Passes TIN Grant Superior and
HOward-TiptOn Circuit Court
Bills from the House.
OTHER COURTS ASKED FOR
HOUSE ASSES THE BILL FOR AN Of
FICIAL VISITING BOARD.
strong Disposition to Curb Township
Trustees Resisted by the emocra
Minor Measures Passed.

Cigarettes, politics and a lot of minor
measures engrossed the attention OF the
Legislature yesterday. After a long dis
cussion. devoted mostly TO the legal feat
ures of the bill, the Senate, in the after
noon, passed Senator Shively's meas
ure to license the sale OF cigarettes and
prohibiting their sale TO minors under
eighteen years. The Culbert-Rogers contest
occupied the time of the Senate all morn
ing and kept 1t in session until about 1
o'clock. The committee on elections re-
ported in favor of ousting George w. Rog-
ers and seating Uriah Cuipert, the Dem
ocrats bringing i'm a minority report throw
ing out the contest. Each side was given
an hour for and Senators Drum
mond, Shea, Sweeney and Ellison talked
for the Democrats. They denounced the
proceedings as outrageous, unjust and SIM
ply an exhibition of the unreasoning tyran-
ny of a heavy majority. Senators Wood
and Newly did the talking for the Repub-
lican side, and Senator Newly, in replying
TO some of the arguments put forth by the
minority, brought up numerous instances
or what he termed the high-handed way In
which they did business when they were in
a majority. In the course,of his argument
he referred to the last Democratic attor-
ney general, without naming him, as a
bloody cutthroat." gilbert was seated
by a strict party vote of 30 to Is. During
the period before this matter came UP
the Senate passed the House bill establish
Ing a Superior Court in Grant county. 1t
also passed the Howard-Tipton bin estab-
fishing a new circuit. This latter is very
likely to meet with a veto
Inc time OF the House was occupied with
second readings and In passing bills OF
minor Importance. The most interesting
was a measure providing for the appoint
ment OF a committee of three members of
the Legislature every two years to investi-
gate the needs of the State institutions
and furnish the Legislature with reliable
information upon which to base appropria-
tions. 1t is the intention of his measure
to do away with all legislative junketing
trips and at the same time to cut off the
various luxuries INDUCED i'm at the expense
or the State by the officers of State insti-
tutlons. The ways and means committee.
In looking over the vouchers in the audi
tors office, has found a good deal of this
sort OF thing that il thinks can be cut off
without hurting the institutions to any ex-
tent.
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New Senate Bills.

S. B. ex-senator Self: Regulating the
appointment and fixing the pay of deputy
county assessors. County and township
business.
s. b. ex-senator Humphreys: Defining
public highways established by usage.
Roads.
S. Il. Ex-senator Hogate: To perpetuate
section corners as located by government
survey. County and township business.
S. b. ex-senator Collette: To permit the
taking of gravel from the grounds of state
Institutions for use on the public highways.
Benevolent institutions.
s. b. ex-senator Homer: Regulating the
weighing and screening of coal. Mines.
S. b. ex-senator Wood: Relative TO the
recovery OF costs i'm suits in Circuit or
Superior Courts. Judiciary.
S. b. Ex-senator Shively: Authorizing Of
ficers of penal and benevolent institutions
TO hold autopsies. Benevolent institutions.
S. Il. Ex-senator Newly: To amend Sec
ton 10 of an act concerning public offenses
and their punishment. Judiciary.
S. y. Ex-senator Gochenour: Legalizing
the incorporation of the town Of Rome
Rules suspended and the bill passed.
s. Il. Ex-senator Homer: Providing for
the examination of mine bosses and en-
ployes and for issuance of certificates of
competency. Mines.
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"
Election La Changes.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
As the Legislature is planning to make
some amendments TO the election law. L
would suggest hat in the interest of econ
omy. without injury or risk to purity of
elections. il might make precincts TO con-
tain not TO exceed $50 voters instead of go
as now. The law now provides that each
inspector shall, ten days before election,
receive from the auditor the poll books
and tally sheets; then he must make an
other trip 10 the clerks office for the bal
lots. The trustee of each township might
receive the poll books. tally sheets. ballots
and all. say, two or three days before cleo
ton and deliver them TO the inspector. the
trustee receipting for all and each in
spector receipting 10 the trustee. and each
election board could, as now. carefully ex-
anime seals, etc, to see that they had not
been tempered with. In this county this
work need not TAX more than two days
for each trustee. or fourteen days. whereas
under the present law il takes two DAYS
for each inspector, or sixty-four days. and
probably costs $40 IN mileage. Changing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-29
INJUSTICE TO STRHCK.
He Did Not Evict the Horne Family
ON Newman Street.

There was a story printed yesterday
about a case on Newman street which does
an injustice TO Philip Strack, a real estate
agent and barber. who has a place of bust
ness at the corner of Columbia avenue and
Seventh street. The story was told of the
eviction of the family of II. 3. Horne, a
painter, from a house of which Strack was
the agent. Ii now appears that the family
moved out of its own accord, having been
delinquent over three months in rent.
Horne. it is claimed, has been promising
for a long time to pay part of the rent
when he obtained money which he claimed
was due him from the State Boar of Ag-
riculture. This money, il is claimed, had
been paid him in full long before he began
making his promises.
Mr.. Strack is a German who came TO this
country only three years ago, but by his
energy and enterprise has earned enough
to buy him a little home. 1t has been
shown that, while he brought suit for the
rent, he did not evict the Horne family.
He is spoken of highly for his integrity by
those who have had busine dealings with
him.
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To Entertain the superintendent.

There was a meeting of public school
teachers at the High School Hall yester-
day afternoon to plan for the entertain
ment of the National Association of Super
intendents, which will meet in this city
next month. This meeting will probably
draw about five hundred of these school
officials to the city. The last meeting was
held in Jacksonville, Fla, but il is re-
ported that little was done towards enter
tanning the visitors.
The teachers decided to give the visitors
a banquet and reception. The PropylaeuTn
will probably be used for this event, as the
Commercial Club has engaged 1t for one
day during the meeting. superintendent
Goss will nave charge of the arrangements
for this banquet. 1t is hoped that this con-
vention will also furnish the local teach
ers an opportunity OF holding a reunion
with the old superintendent or the In
~dianapoliS schools.
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Franklin. Ind, Jan. 2s.
The Legislature Is All Right.

To the Editor OF the indianapolis Journal:
/ notice the usual cry comes from certain
quarters that 1.-The Legislature is doing
nothing" Let the members not be alarmed
this is an old story. From observation /
think this Legislature is to be commended
for the number of bills that nave been
killed, thereby saving the Governor from
using his veto power. But little legislation
is required. and ne bills that do become
laws should receive careful and mature de-
liberation There is greater danger OF do
ing too much legislation than not enough.
As a rule. the cry ccThe Legislature is doing
nothing" comes from parties that have
axes TO grind or some pet scheme that. per-
haps. has been defeated. OBSERVER.
Indianapolis, Jan. 2S.
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WAY HER SWEETHEART WENT.
Kate Richie Tries, with Ac-
id, to Follow Him to hadOw Land.

Wednesday night Kate Richter, aged
eighteen years. daughter of George Richter,
Of 400 West Eleventh street, proprietor OF
the Pearl laundry, go East Washington
street, attempted to commit suicide. She
took 10 cents worth OF carbolic acid while
at the laundry. but it happened that Henry
Reinken, a saloon keeper, heard of the case
and gave her salt water before the arrival
of the doctors. This IS an antidote and
saved the girl. Three years ago her boy
sweetheart committed suicide with carbolic
acid and his body lay eleven days in a room
over mixer saloon before II was dis
covered. 1t is supposed that the girl wanted
to Join her sweetheart. She says she Is
glad she did not die. DR.. Guido Bell was
called and the girl was taken TO her home
in a hack. Her parents will say nothing
about the case and il is understood that
Miss Richter refuses to make any explana-
IiOn.
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interstate Those favoring the
bill were of the opinion that II ought TO be
passed In Difference 10 the wishes Of the
whether it should stand. Others urged
that II there was any question as 10 the
validity of the bill IL ought to be amended.
To this Senator La Toilette objected. look
ing upon such suggestions as being made
Tor the purpose of delaying legislation.
When the vote was taken several sena-
TORS explained that they voted for II be-
cause they understood from Senator La
Toilette they might also vote for the Nc
Cord bill.
OTHER MATTERS CONSIDERED.
Senator Woods bill prohibiting railroads
from collecting EXCESS fares from "a sengers
who have failed TO purchase tickets before
boarding trains was passed. A majority of
the railroads of the State have a rule that
compels passengers to pay higher fare when
buying their tickets from the conductors,
some of them providing means for rebates
of such excess amounts. however. There
was no discussion of the bill.
Senator Ellison's motion that the Senate
concur in House amendments to his bill
authorizing the sale of bonds to build court
houses in certain cases was adopted.
The vote by which Senator Houghton's
bill regulating the widening of highways
was killed Wednesday was RECONSTRUCTED and
the bill recommitted TO its author Tor
amendment
a bill was introduced by Senator Goch-
enour legalizing the Incorporation OF the
town of Roam. 1t was passed under sus-
pension of the rules.
Senator Duncan, chairman of the COM
mittee on education. asked leave of alb
sence for that committee, which goes to
Terre Haute to-day to visit the State
Normal and to Lafayette tomorrow. Leave
of absence was granted.
y favorable report was made by the COM
mittee on federal relations on Senator
Shively's bill. No. 256, appropriating 5000 TO
provide n statue of Oliver +. Morton for
the national statutary hall in the Capitol
at Washington.
a message was received informing the
Senate that the Governor had signed the
bill extending the life of the Appellate
Court TO four years from Jan. /. 1891.
Senator Horner's joint resolution for the
adoption of a constitutional amendment for
the establishment of an initiative and
referendum law has been adversely re-
ported on by the committee on revision of
the Constitution. The committees report
says the resolution is unconstitutional, as
two amendments TO the Constitution are
now pending. Senator Horner says he Will
probably introduce the measure in another
form. whereby the voters OF the State may
be given an opportunity TO express them
selves i'm favor or adverse to such an
amendment to the Constitution.
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DREW THE COLOR LINE.
Representative Jones and a RestaI-
rant Keeper Have Words.

The Hon. Gabriel Jones. member of the
Legislature from Marion county, fell into
difficulties yesterday in a restaurant on
Market street kept by one Charley"
Thorne. who has a considerable reputation
as a p%ugilist. The Hon. Gabriel is an ath-
lete OF no mean proportions himself. The
waiter declined 10 serve MIN until he
threatened to cause trouble if not prop
erly treated. He ordered 10 cents worth or
food and devoured it in peace until it
came TO settling the bill. When a check
for 80 cents was presented him his blood
was aroused and he vowed that he would
pay nothing extra on account of his color.
Thorne told him that he would pay the
price asked. ard this difference of opinion
led 10 a warm argume which ended in
Thorne ordering the Hon. Gabriel out of
the house. Mr.. Jones wen on the out
side and dared the restaurant keeper TO
come out. The latter politely declined.
and thus discretion got the better of
yalor on both sides.
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Let the Governor Appoint.

To the Editor OF the indianapolis Journal:
1 see by the action OF the Republican
caucus that they contemplate taking the
appointment of statehouse custodian from
the Governor and placing it in the hands
of a commission composed of the State
officers. Why do they wish to do this?
Why should the powers OF the Governor
be curtailed? State officers have enough TO
do If they discharge the duties that legiti-
mately belong TO their offices. The state
house custodian and the engineer OF the
State Capitol should be appointed by the
Governor. To leave these appointments az
suggested by the caucus looks too much
like Democratic civil service.
A REPUBLICAN.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-29
NEW FISH COMMISSIONER.
Governor Mount Appoints Rev. H.. II
Sweeney. of Columbus.

Governor Mount has announced the ap-
pointment Of Rev. u. T. Sweeney. of Column
bus. &c the Office or State fish commissioner
There were more than twenty applicants
for the position and the Governor spent the
two hours OF noOntime yesterday I'm a final
examination Of the papers and petitions
presented in their favor.
Mr.. Sweeney was recommended TO the
Governor by the Rod and Reel Club of In
diana and several of the camp meeting as
sociatiOns interested I'm preserving the fish
IN the northern lakes OF the State. where
these associations have camp grounds. Mr..
Sweeney. though a minister in active serv-
ice. finds time 10 use the lshing rod oc-
casionally, and has taken a hand In prose-
cutting violators of the fish laws. Mr..
Sweeney favors rigid laws for the protec-
ton OF fish.
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Building and Loan Legislation.

The building and loan committee of the
House held a meeting last evening for the
purpose of making a thorough examination
of the bill prepared by the commission ap-
pointed by Governor Matthews. Mr. SUIT
ton, a member of the commission, is also
a m of the committee and went over
the bill section by section with the mem
bers. 1t is likely that some notifications
Will be made in the measure and that ii
will then be introduced as a committee
hfn
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Report on the Prison North.

The prisons committee held an executive
session last evening to determine upon
their report on the Prison North. 1t is
understood that the report will show the
Improvement, If not of practical recon-
Struction.
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precincts as suggested and also the man
ner of receiving supplies would save in this
county SEQ TO $500. without any harm to the
sanctity of the ballot. / speak from eX-
p%erience. having been on the election board
and talk8d with others who have had ex-
perience. j.
North Manchester. Ind. Jan. %.
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Discussing the Medical Bill.

The House committee on health held a
meeting in Room IL last evening to con-
tinue the hearing on the general medical
bill introduced by Mr.. Shideler in the
House. Various phases of the measure
were discussed by local physicians.
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cult would have two judges for a couple
of wears.
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insure with German Fire Insurance OF In.
diana. General Offices, % South Delawar
street. Fire. tornado and explosion.
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Silk
Dress
Skirts

With the mercury II degrees below zero,
we sold all of the fourteen black Brocade
Silk Dress Skirts advertised for Monday.
The many calls since and the high APP
prevail with which they were greeted, is
responsible for another lot which was pur-
chased, and will be placed on sale
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Genuine CeylOn Tea
r. NJ. Mueller, 81 Mass. ave. Tel. 675.
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McGilard Agency CO. Fire Insurance.
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FOrmOsa Tea, Rare Quality.
r. M. Mueller, 81 Mass. ave. Tel. 575.
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Delaware Insurance Company.
Insure your property with A. J. MEYER q
CO.. 90 Lombard. Phone l30.
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Feed your horse JANES'S Dustless Oats
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Kimball Pianos. Carlin & Lennox. 81 East
Market street.
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Silk for a Waist

Would be a good investment for the saw
ing you make on the skirt. See what we
show in Fancy Brocade.
Evening Taffetas at..........:..... SOC
Dainty Striped Taffetas at ......... 75c
And new Checked Louisaines at....S1.OO
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