The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

Littleton said he had heard no second. To
this Mr.. Eichhorn replied that there were
times when the speaker did not seem to
care to hear second"
FIRST SKIRMISH OF THE DAY.
After the opening prayer in the morning
the House plunged into the first skirmish
between state and nonstate schools. Mr..
Kirkpatrick sent up a resolution, which was
seconded by Chairman Roberts, of the COM
mittee On education, to instruct the COM
mittee on education to report the bill by
Mr.. Brown, which is practically the same
bill as that presented to the Senate by Sen
ator Hogate, providing for a reorganization
of the State Board of Education. The
Brown bill is the nonstate bill and provides
that in the place of the presidents of the
three state schools, three citizens one OF
when shall be a county superintendent
shall be appointed.
1t was explained by Mr.. kirkpatrick that
the majority of the committee had voted
to withhold the bill until Feb 10 on the
ground that the House should take no ac-
ton until the Senate had disposed of the
matter. The resolution gave the committee
until Monday afternoon to report the bill
Mr.. Wiloughby moved to table the resolu-
ton and Mr.. Compton seconded the motion
The motion was lost by a vote of 26 ayes to
"a noes. Mr.. CaraWay who is member OF
the education committee, disclaimed any in
tention on the part of the majority men,
bers to kill the bill. He said the sole cause
of the delay was Chairman Roberts, who
had held the Dill up until wednesday last,
when he called meeting of the committee
and tried to force a report. He stated that
the bill had been in ROberts's hands for two
weeks before he presented 1t to the commit
tee and Mr. Caraway further claimed that
the majority believed it TO be unwise to
force long fight in the House, when there
was one on the same subject in the Senate.
He said the sole purpose was to save time.
Mr. Willoughby said the true cause of the
delay was to wait until President Bur
roughs, of Wabash College, should recover
from his illness and get here He stated
that the bill had been held up by that
gentleman's request and now that he was
able to be here he wanted it reported i'm
mediately.
Mr. Roberts declared that he had not seen
President Burroughs for five days and that
anyhow President Burroughs is not run
ming the committee. He said that If the ma
jority was permitted to hold the bill until
Feb 10 it would probably also hold it for
ten days longer and only permit 1t to be
brought in when there was no possibility
of action. Mr.. Brown, the author OF the Dill,
said the apparent purpose OF the majority
of the committee is to kill the bill by post
ponementS and he declared that the ma
jority of the committee is opposed to any
legislation on the subject. Mr. James moved
the previous question and the resolution was
adopted by 80 yeas to 81 nays. The vote was
as follows:
Yeas-Aikin, Artman Blankenship, Bon
ham, Brown, Canada, Cravens OF WaSShing-
ton, Cunningham, Guilty, Fuller, Geisel,
Graham, Green Hays, Heuring,, Herod
Herr96 James King KF9dtrioEM add aFP
Mars May Neal, O'Bannon, Powers. Rob
erts, Roose. Scott of Montgomery, Somers,
Sullivan. Titus, Whitcomb of Marion, Wise
Nays-Baker of Whitley. Baker of Mar
tin Burkhart, Caraway, Clark. Compton.
Clements Cravens of Mo4 H,f Cotner i,d oil
brenner, Hall, Hayes, Holcomb, kerwood,
Krick, Left, Louttit, Marshall, Messick,
Murphy of Marion, McCarty, Morrison
AIyler. Noel, Osborn. Reece. Reser, Schra-
DER, Scott of Lawrence, Strong, Shirley,
Vogel and Willoughby.
Absent-Barlow, Beardsley. Burrier Cat
ley, Claycomb F'urness, Feist Giants Huff,
Hedgecock, Knots, Miller, Null. Murphy
Of White Owen, Patterson. Rifenhurg,
Roots, Ross, Shideler, Stevens, Schaal,
Whitcomb of Vigo, and Williams.
STREET IMPROVEMENT BILL.
The House then took up the regular order
of business and Mr.. Kirkpatricks bill, that
street and alley improvements shall be
made on petition representing one-half
of the property abutting the street only,
was recommitted to the committee through
the efforts of Mr.. King and Mr.. Eichhorn,
chiefly. The bill applies to cities of less than
twelve thousand inhabitants only Mr.. King
opposed the bill and said it affected large
majority of the towns of the State Every
body, he said, knew how difficult il is to get
people interested in street improvements.
Mr.. Kirkpatrick expressed the belief that
provements in small cities and towns, and
he mentioned that another bill IS pending
which provides that so per cent. of prop
erty owners may demonstrate. Mr.. Scott,
of Montgomery. thought that town boards
should have the right to order improve
ments. Mr.. Eichhorn said that small towns
are filled with those who are passive on the
subject of improvements and he believed
that the best plan would be 10 provide some
way by which a certain number of property
owners demonstrating might defeat an i'm
provement. Mr. Murphy of White. moved
that the bill be recommitted to the commit
tee and that all after the enacting clause
be stricken out and a substitute inserted
providing that Temonstrance of two-thirds
of the owners of abutting property may de-
feat a proposed Improvement. This was
done.
Mr. Herrod's bill, which was designed to
place all notes, stocks and bonds on the tax
duplicate by providing that all such evil
dences of Indebtedness shall be stamped by
the assessor before April ] of each year,
failed for the want of a constitutional ma
jOrity. The vote was so years to "a nays.
Mr.. Hays's bill, providing for the referen-
DUN, was passed by 50 yeas to nays. 1t
provides that no ordinance of an incorpor-
ated town except penal sidewalk and emer-
gency ordinances (Which must be passed by
a unanimous vote of the board of trustees),
shall go into effect until thirty days after
its passage, and not then if 40 per cent. of
the voters of the town demand that 1t be
submitted to them. In that case the ordi-
nance does not become effective until after
a majority of voters approve 1t at the polls.
The bill provides that special elections may
be held or the ordinances may be voted on
at a general election. TIE method of pro-
Cedure is outlined and penalties are provided
for violations of the act.
The pharmacy bill came up for passage,
and, without a word of discussion, was
passed by 81 yeas to &c nays. Mr.. Hayes and
Mr.. Reece voted against it, although they
favored it. They both explained that they
cid so in Difference to a petition from the
Druggists Association of Northern Indiana,
which they received on the morning mail
Mr.. Kirkpatrick bill to prevent bringing
into the State dependent children except I'M
der restrictions therein provided, was passed
by 50 yeas to nays. Such a chile can only
be brought in under the regulations of the
Board of State Charities. and a bond of
$4,000 is required from the person or So
ciety bringing in such Il child. Those barred
are of unSound mind or body. The name
and age of the child and the name and resi-
dence of the person bringing him into the
State shall be filed with the Board Of State
Charities. If a child so brought in should
become a public charge before he reaches
the age of twenty-one, or If he should be
convicted of any crime within three years
from his arrival in the State, he is to be re-
moved from the STATE and 81 coo is to be col
lected from the person responsible for bring
ing him into the State. A fine of 500 is
provided for a violation of the act.
PROVIDING FOR CHARITY BOARDS.
Mr.. Willamss bill for boards of county
charities in each county passed by n yeas
to nays. The judge of the Circuit Court
is authorized to appoint six persons. two of
whom shall be women, to constitute the
board This board is to be nonpartisan, and
it will be required to visit the county insti-
tutions and report.
Mr.. Hedgecock's bill to amend the act re-
garding the settlement and distribution of