The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-15
PRIMARY ELECTION MEASURE
BOTH BRANCHES OF LEGISLATURE
DISCUSS 1T.
House Passes Several BilIs-SOIdiers'
Monument Appropriation Causes
a Scene.

rupted by additional motions to adjourn, in
terspersed with attempts to introduce new
bills, until it was found that it was useless
to attempt to do any further business and
the Senate adjourned, with the bill still pend
ing and one amendment already adopted by
consent of the author. In many respects the
situation was unique one
Following the usual custom, as soon as the
bill was called up, the reading clerk began
to read the bill by sections. 1t is long
document Of f1fty-two sections and twenty
pages and the reading Of it would consume
fully an hour. Throughout the latter por-
ton of the afternoon, several of the senators
united their efforts to keep the bill from
being brought up by resorting to all sorts
of pretexts-by moving to adjourn and by
asking consent to introduce bills-hoping
that one of the many adjournment motions
would carry.
Several of the senators, who realized that
there would be a perfect avalanche of bills
offered if any departure from the regular
order of things was made, steadily voted
against allowing the clerks to be swamped AT
the closing hours of the day, and insisted
that the regular order be maintained In
this manner, Senator News name was called
in regular order and he called up his county
bill. 1t was then nearly 4:S0 and most of
the senator's who were against the bill, ex-
pressed themselves as anxious to adjourn
and make the matter a special order for
this morning, in order to be better prepared
to fight it, Some of it's friends insisted on
the Senate continuing it's consideration in
the hope that it would pass without amend
ment, but both sides failed in their efforts.
1t was realized that the reading of the bill
would consume the time up to nearly 9
o clock and a hint was conveyed to the read
ing clerk that he could with propriety over
look a few of the lines, in order to expedite
matters. That official hadebeen warned in
advance however, that some of the enc
mics of the bill would claim that the pas
sage of the bill would be illegal if he did so,
and refused to take advantage of the permits
sion accorded him by the chair, until Presi-
dent Pro Tempore Newly ordered him to
omit part of the bill in order to finish the
reading as soon as possible. In spite of this,
however, the reading clerk stuck to his task,
without emitting word, until Chairman
Newly grew tired and shouted out: This is
the third reading of the bill, the question is
shall it be passed."
DISPUTE AS TO THE READING.
Only about one-third of the bill had
thereafter made strenuous attempts to have
it read through, in order, as he said, to
make the passage of the bill legal.
Senator Stilwell offered an amendment,
which. was adopted by consent of the author,
providing that the following be added to the
bill after Section 81:
Section sly The Board of County Com
missioners by consent of the Council in each
county OF this State may lay off and divide
the same into any number of townships that
the convenience OF the citizens may require,
accurately defining the boundaries thereof
ana may from time to time make such al
teratiOnS in the number, names and bounda-
RES OF such townships as they may deem
proper.
After this was done. and two motions to
adjourn had failed, Senator Hubbell claimed
That neither the amendment nor the bill was
properly before the Senate for discussion in
asmuch as the bill had not been read
through. Chairman Newly ruled that the
bill had been read a third time and was
ready for passage as amended. Senator Hub
bell appealed from the ruling by asking the
chair If he meant to say that it was proper
to read about a third of the bill and an
nounce that it had been given third read
ing. Senator Newly answered that he had
already ruled on the point, but was not
conducting school in parliamentary law
to which Senator Hubbeu replied that it
was manifest that Senator Newly was in
capable of doing so. In the midst of the
trouble another motion to adjourn was
made and carried, and the bill went over
until this morning, when it will come up for
passage.
TO PURIFY PRIMARIES.
Another hot fight, while it lasted, grew out
of the passage of Senator Hugg's bill to
purify primary elections The author, in
explaining it, SAID that it had been framed
in compliance with the pledges made in
the platforms of both parties at the last
general election. He said that while pri-
mary elections were not so corrupty con-
Quoted as they were claimed to be, they were
still bad enough to need remedying In
following the usual custom Of considering
the bill by sections Senator Cregor offered
an amendment to Section 4 changing the
time Of opening the polls from l D. M to 10
a. m, explaining that 1t was offered in the
interests of the working people in order
that all might have an opportunity of voting
There was such opposition to this amend
ment on the score of economy that il was
finally defeated Minor amendments were
offered and accepted from Senators Early
and Minor, and Senator Ryan then asked to
have inserted in Section / the words Eek
poses between the words candidates and
shall in the sentence which reads:
Amy person desiring to sumbit his name
to the voters in a primary election shall. not
later than five days preceding the holding
of such primary election. notify the COM
mittee or governing authority of the political
party holding such primary of the facL that
he is a candidate, and upon complying with
the conditions prescribed by the committee
or governing authority for the regulation
of candidates shall be declared to be
candidate by the committee or governing
authority of such political party, and any
person who has not given such notice to
the committee or governing authority and
has not complied with the conditions pre-
scribed by the committee or other govern
ing authority FOR the government of candi-
dates shall not have his name printed on the
ballots used in such primary election; but
any person desiring to vote for one other
than the persons whose names are printed
on said ballots shall have the right to do
tanning the name OF the person for whom he
desires to vote in the space on the ballot set
apart for the names of the candidates for
such Office as he may desire such person
So voted for to hold
Senator Ryan. in explaining his amend
ment said that ii was offered as a check
on the county committee, which might pre-
vent a poor man whom il was not desired to
place on the ticket from running for office
by reason Of the committee leVying an eX
orbitant assessment against him. The
amendment was adopted.
Senator Shea then moved to strike Out all
of the bill except the enacting clause and
substitute for II the provision that in al
mary elections they should be under ne
provisions of the Australian ballot law. This
was deceased.
Senator Winfield then moved 10 insert IN
the first section the provision that the bin
should only apply 10 counties Of 10000 or
over for the reason that il VAS not neces-
sary in most of the small counties, Senator
Hugg IN replying. said that the bill was
not III any sense an election law, but had