The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-02
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wines educational bill. while the Senate
committee on reformator.es recommended
the passage of House bin No. 423, providing
for the establishment of a hospital for the
criminal insane at Jacksonville.
The Senate finance committee yesterday
DRAPER Tor printing the BREWER Reports
OF the Senate proceedings in the same
fashion that preceding Senates have done.
Inc members reported that they mad not
been able to give the claim the examina-
ton that it required and asked TO be re-
lieved from further consideration of II. The
request being granted. the claim Is put OF
for another two years.
Senator Heller disappointed those who
prophesied that he would not Introduce a
Dill during the session and presented one
TO abolish the Superior Courts of Porter and
Laporte counties. A similar bill was intro
duced in the House on Monday. 1t was re-
ferred TO tho judiciary committee.
BY common consent House Bills 476 and 295
were advanced to engrosSment. The Sen
ate concurred in the House amendments TO
Senate Bill Isl. prohibiting the adulteration
OF candy.
ELECTIONS COMMITTEE REPORTS.
The Senate elections committee made a
formal report on the Stoner-Cregor con-
tested election case yesterday afternoon In
the GLOWING language: Having given the
matter thorough and careful consideration
and having heard all the evidence sub
mitted by each party. We recommend that
the prayer IF the contestant be not granted
and that the contestee's title to his seat in
the Senate be confirmed. The district rep
resented by the contestant and contestee,
covering as ii did three counties, and the
witnesses brought before the m be-
ing of such large number and from so many
different localities, the total costs incurred
by both contestant and contestee are so
large that this committee does not feel
justified in recommending the allowance OF
the full amount but it finds and reports
that the following costs only should be al
lowed and PAID by this Senate to the per-
sons hereinafter named.
Then follows a long list Of claims, aggre-
eating $l,oS5. OF this amount Stoner and
Cregor are each allowed $3.50 Ito partially
reimburse them for expenses incurred. =
sSi reger,s s eost s sfis. f Nens s'a Of the Elssi attor MRlls
on either side filed any claims for fees. The
miscellaneous claims are: Ciamor Pelzor,
expenses incurred in subpoenaing witnesses,
$3.50: Isaac T.. May, clerk Of Madison Cir
cult Court. to costs in that court. SILL;
Miss Emma Messing. extra stenographic
The following House bills were passed:
No. 81. Providing for the inspection OF
Illuminating oils used I'm mines.
No. oil. Preventing the organization of
trade combinations tending 10 restrict COM
petition. The bill is designed to break up
the Plumbers National Association, which
so controls the supply trade that plumbers
who are not member of the association are
prevented from buying supplies from whole,
sale dealers and are virtually prevented
from engaging in the plumbing business.
No. $50. Compelling educational institu-
tons winch receive aid from the state 10
file itemized statements of receipts and ex-
penditures.
No. 24S. Providing for the burial at the
States expense of any INDECENT ex-Union
soldier.
No. 427. Requiring the trustees of the
State University, Purdue University and
the State Normal School to furnish itemiZed
statements OF all moneys received and dis
bursed.
No. 413. Legalizing the incorporation of
Judson, Parke county.
No. 1870. Prescribing the width of wagon
tires to be used in heavy hauling at certain
seasons.
TO AID KNOX
No. ga. Legalizing the titles to lands
where the original papers were destroyed
by fire. The bill touches the titles to large
tracts of land in Knox county.
No. 90. Providing for the election of road
supervisors by the people instead Of allow
ing township trustees to appoint them
No. 6l3. Repeating the act providing for
written briefs in the Supreme and Appellate
courts. The bill compels the filing of either
printed or typewriter briefs. in order to
remedy the "one man decision evil common
in all cases in which only one written copy
of a record is filed In the high courts.
Senator Horner introduced a new bill ex-
empting about forty miles of gravel roads
now under construction in Clay county,
which could not be built in view of an act
passed early in the session, limiting the is
sue of bonds for free gravel roads TO 4 per
cent. or the taxed property, The bill was
passed under a suspension of the rules.
A second reading was given TO bill No.
362. amending the tax laws by compelling a
man TO set out his notes for examination in
offsetting his debts against his tax assess
ment. The purpose of the bill is to disclose
the identity of all who hold such obliga-
tons against other persons in order that
they may be taxed accordingly.