The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-28

The General Assembly has so far proved
to be a very industrious and effective body
of business men. Having started in on this
gait, Il Will not do to fall down. Keep ii
up.-Muncie News.
Wouldn't our legislators show a little
horse sense in letting the circulating library
fad severely alone? They imagine the rural
folk OF Indiana are going to the dry rot
OF ignorance, and hence the circulating
library nostrum.-Noblesville Ledger.
The Republicans in the Legislature have
lined up in favor of reform in county and
township administration The party will re-
deem its pledges in this respect, and 1t will
make no mistake in so doing, for he who
serves his State and country best serves
his party best-Vernon Journal.
Many railroad companies have proven their
receipts average only a trile over cents
per mile for each passenger carried, owing
to the many occasions for which they are
expected to grant rates which seem below
the paying basis. 1t is a gross injustice TO
further hamper them with legislation which
cannot fail to be disastrous TO their inter-
ests, as a two-cent-fare law will undoubt-
eddy be.-Cambridge City Tribune
The need Of a more uniform method of
township government throughout the State
is more and more apparent as the discus
sion of the subject goes on, and if the pro-
posed law can even secure uniformity it
will be a step toward true reform. 1t pro-
poses to do much more than this, and If it
accompliShes all its promoters hope for the
taxpayers will have reason to remember
this Legislature with gratitude.-Monticello
Herald.
As soon as a legislator can devise salts
factory way of preventing farmer from
buying the farm of another and then from
buying a third or fourth farm he will be
prepared to frame a just and satisfactory
bill to prevent the formation of trusts Sup
pose there are three manufacturing plants
in the United States for making rubber
goods How will you prevent the proprietor
of one of them from buying the other two?
If he buys the other two he will have made
a monopoly and a trust, and how will you
prevent him from doing this without tres
passing on the personal rights of all the
pecple?-New Albany Tribune.
Under the law as it now stands each
representative is allowed 40 cents per mile
for gong to and from Indianapolis to at
tend the Legislature. Our representative
draws $50 and many of them as much as $l00.
This law was enacted when transportation
was in the main by stage coach and cost
as much as ~ cents per mile each Wav Now
any member can travel at or cents per
mile, many of them using passes, and the
law should be changed to allow them
cents per mile 3nd then compel each mem
Der to file his sworn statement that he
does not use pass before he shall receive
nything.-Wirchester Herald.
The county and township government re-
form bills that are before the Legislature
nave the unquallned approval OF a vast
majority of the people of the State belong
ing to the two great parties The bills were
drawn by men of large ability and famI
iarity with the subjects treated and In
obedience to the popular demand. Step by
step they were constructed in the interest of
the taxpayers, by the taxpayers and for the
taxpayers, and they were approved by COM
mittee after committee of the best men of
the State. The bills drawn in advance
of the meeting of the Legislature to save
time, so that the Legislature could consider
them at once and legislate them into laws
as speedily possibe.-BrOokville Amer
lean.
There have been people in this county
ready to cruelty the editor of the Review
because he dared to criticse the methods
used in auditors reports in vogue here.
But now that public attention has been
awakened our position is proven both time
ly and consistent. In the very last report of
the auditor of this county credit is taken
for large sum. apparently in cash, for
highway. In another place in the same re-
port an indebtedness of exactly the same
amount, for the same purpose, is shown.
And we are told that the fiVe-centS- the
huEdred-dolar-bo tax that has been as
sessed against the people is to pay this debt.
Now. this may be a good system of book
keeping for counties where the purpose is
apparently to show how things are not done.
In a private business it would be tabooed
as confusing and misleading.-Laurel Re
view.