The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-30

killed by the committee and the House
concurred in the action.
The disposition of some people to use the
House as a place for advertising will not
be tolerated by the officers of the House.
The proceedings Saturday were stopped by
Speaker Littleton, who, in language vigorous
and forceful, ordered from the gallery
man who was distributing circulars. An
other individual, who did not have a proper
respect for the dignity of the House, wan
dered into the back part OF the room and
proceeded TO light cigar He was quickly
hustled out by one of the doorkeepers. The
members of the third official house, the
doorkeepers, assistants and pages. had
group photograph taken in the hall of the
Statehouse. The unofficial third house
has become so annoying that hereafter the
rule regarding passes will be strictly en-
forced and no one will be admitted on the
first floor unless pass is presented. There
has not been d session during the last few
days that the lobbyists have not been
warned, and once Speaker Iittleton threat
ened TO clear the hall and galleries.
MAYORS AGAINST IT.
Several senators have been advised of the
existence of what is claimed to be a per-
nicious bill introduced in the House at the
insugation of the opponents of a mayor in
the northern part of the State The bill
will not, it is claimed, seriously affect the
mayors of Indianapolis Evansville and Fort
Wayne, which cities operate under a spe-
ctal charter, but the mayors of all the other
CLUES VIII De nit ndIQs Inc Dill provinces
for the shortening OF the term of the Of
flee of mayor from four to two years, and
would legtslate them out of office in 1870,
whereas they were elected to serve until
1902. Mayor Steeg, of Terre Haute, is in
town, and will devote himself to the task
OF having the bill killed when it comes up
for passage in the House, or, failing in
that, when it reaches the Senate
AS wedge to secure the passage of the
btA TO practically keep the organization of
the State Board of Education intact the
students of the State Normal School will to-
DAY present petition to both branches OF
the Legislature VI ging that the State Board
of Education, as now constituted, has had
the care of the public-school system for
thirty years, during which time the system
has advanced until it is recognized one
OF the best IN the country; no charge OF
Incompetency inefficiency has been
brought against it; acting as a textbook
commission the duties have been discharged
beyond criticism and to the manifest bene-
fit of the schools of the State; that while
opponents of the state schools have said
there was discrimination in favor of state
schools in granting licenses to teachers, no
specific instance has been cited; that the
nonstate schools engaged in this attack GO
not represent One-naIt or the private or
church school interests of the State, and in
that respect are not representing any inter-
est except their own; that the attack on the
state board Is unwarranted, is destructive
Of the best interests Of the schools and will
be productive of no good end, and therefore
the signers petition the Legislature that the
present organization of the state board be
left intact, save that two more county
superintendent be appointed to membership
to represent the rural schools"
BOTH HOUSES ''SANITATED."
AS result of the presence of smallpox in
this city and the apprehension on the part
of many of the members of the General AS
sembly that contagon may extend itself to
the Statehouse, Dr. Hurry, of the State
Board of Health. "sanitated' the chambers
of both branches yesterday, and both sena-
| tors and representatives may tackle the
problems before them this morning without
any apprehension over the probability of the
disease lurking in the hangIngs furniture
Of either place. Yesterday morning the
rooms were tightly closed and large quanti-
ties OF formaldehyde were sprinked over
everything in sight and left sealed up all
day. Before night, it estimated, il
any microbes should have found their way
into the abiding place of the solons, they
would have been killed off root and branch
by the fumes of the formaldehyde. The
rooms were then thoroughly aired and
MADE reaoy for the work of to-day, and as
the galleries Will be watched for people sus-
pected of being liable to carry around with
them the germs of the disease it is hoped to
keep out all smallpox microbes hereafter