The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-24

| simply provided for that by specifying that
! IN order to secure the bounty the manutac-
| turers must pay at least 81 a ton for the
grades OF beets yielding II per cent. of
sugar
Senator Newly said he was a high pro-
| tecUonist, but was against all form of
bounty. whether by the State or national
government, and that while the question
was not one of partisan politics. he felt
that If additional burdens were placed on
the people someone would reap the Whirl-
wind. He said he was not fighting either
capital or labor, and the only combinations
or capital he was opposed to were those
III which he had no financial interest. He
regarded the combination of capital as a
necessity in handling the large business in
terests of the State. He said he knew the
origin OF the bill, although few of the sena-
tors appeared to. 1t came. he said, from a
syndicate which proposed to locate ten fac
tories in this State. He said he didn't care
WING received bounty so long as the State
benented by it, and matter which COM
bine or trust benefited by the bounty he
was sure the dear farmer, who had been
held up by all the senator's as something to
pc Ioved, cherished and protected, would
get none Of il" He was opposed to the bill
because, first of ALL it was not in the inter-
ests of his party and lastly was not cal
culated to benefit the people.
senator Gilbert, who, as chairman of the
elections committee. was in a hurry to get
at the CregOr-Stoner contest. moved the
previous question and by a vote of 30 to
10 the minority report, recommending the
indefinite pOStpOnement Of the bill, was
adopted, and the bill was virtually killed.
PIGEON ROOST MASSACRE
The discussion of Senator Sheas bill ap-
propriating $1,000 for a monument in men,
DRY Of the massacred pioneers at Pigeon
Roost, Scott county, came next as a special
order Of business. Senator Shea, in asking
Tor the appropriation, told the story of the
massacre of Sept 8, 1912, in which twenty
four lives were lost, sixteen of whom were
children. He referred to the soldiers monu-
ment IN this city and said that it was the
DUTY OF the State to commemorate the mas
sacre httingly. Senator Drummond warmly
seconded hlm' saying that the State was
Ilot anu never mad been too poor to pay for
Such monuments. Senator Wood also added
iSis testimony to the ACCESSIBILITY of building
ele monument and suggested that in time
q monument should be built to mark the
battle ground of Tippecanoe Senator Pur-
Geii Sdlo ne would vote for the bill on con-
qtlon that another monument be erected
~ tne State IN memory Of George Rogers
Giark the pioneer of Vincennes Senator
ffd l.", IN announcing that he was in
ldNOr or the BILL made a cutting reference
70 70 the recent lynching in Scott county, to
senator Sheas confusion. He said that if
re Noled Tor the appropriation he wanted
S1STndtor ohea 10 agree to put the name of a
MARION county man who was ''massacred"
IN scott county about month ago on the
the saVages in 1872. Senator Shea grew red
III the lace, but made no reionder This
was taken as signal by Senator Gilbert
VINO moved the previous question with the
result that the minority report, against the
Dill, was rejected and the monument will
De nniit. At o'clock the Senate adjourned
10 dllOW the committee elections to at
tend TO the Cregor-Stoner contested election
case.
SENATES MORNING SESSION.
The morning session was uneventful,
nothing but the reading and passa ge Of bills
being undertaken. One of the bills-Senator
Newby's bill to regulate the INCORPORATION
OF insurance companies-required forty-five
minutes of the clerks time to read it. None
OF the bills provoked serious discussion and
all were passed, after being read, as follows:
NO. SO. Senator Brooks, for Senator In
man: Limiting the issue of county bonds
for the building of roads to per cent of the
value of the taxable property of the county.
NO. l. senator Burns: Compelling con-
tractors on all public works to give bond
Tor the payment of all obligation incurred
in carrying on the work.
NO 3. Senator GochenOur: Allowing coun-
ties to acquire property on mortgages due
to the school funds, when such loans have
become delinquent.
No. &C. Senator Hawkins: Establishing
and regulating the administration of a State
Board OF Pharmacy; providing for the eX
animation and licensing of all persons en-
ployed as pharmacists. When the vote was
taken for the passage of the bill, Senator
Horner said he had consulted his constit-
uentS as TO their wishes since he made his
fight against the bill last Friday, and had
learned that, while they would like 1T
amended in several respects, yet rather than
have no pharmacy bill at all, they were
willing TO accept it, and he therefore voted
for its passage.
No g. Senator Johnson of Madison: Con-
corning the sinking, safety, maintenance,
use and operation of natural gas and oil
wells and prescribing penalties for viola
tons. The main provision of the bill is to
give the gas supervisor the power to order
that wells through which gas is being vast
ed be closed and making the wasting OF
No ST. Senator Johnson, of Jay: AL
lowing the natural gas supervisors to make
repairs in gas or oil pipe lines, when neceS-
sary and make the charge for such work
lien against the property OF the owners OF
the pipe line. Senator Early asked to have
the bill amended so as to strike out the
provision for paying reasonable attorneys
fees in prosecuting suits; alleging as his
reason that the Supreme Court had held
such provisions to be Unconstitutional SEN
ator Newly on the contrary, held that II
this were DONE the law would be rendered
imperative by reason of the 1nabillty or the
supervisors who might be hundreds of
sci in such suits. Senator Bail offered an
amendment to give the township trustees
the authority to proceed against ali VlO-
lators of the law in their own township, it
being his idea that the trustees would be
available to receive complaints at all times,
while such might not be the case with the
supervisors who might be hundreds OF
miles away in an emergency.
Senator Newly opposed this measure by
powers to tom, Dick and Harry would
bring trouble on to the State and hamper
the work of the gas supervisor lie SAID
the real wealth and interest which centered
in natural gas did not lie in the big pipe
line corporations, but rather in the hundreds
of wells owned by small producers. Sena-
ter Wood in unfolding the bill, said that 1t
was unjust to place the pipeline compa-
MES subject to insignificant but annoying
suits at the hands of every petty official,
and reiterated the opinion that some one
man should be given authority to prosecute
suits and be held responsible for them. The
sentiment became so strong among the SEN
ators that the bill should pass without
amendment that, on motions, one after an
other of the amendments were killed and
the original bill passed unanimously.
No. q. Senator Keyes: Providing
that it shall not be necessary for persons
injured or the heirs of persons killed,
through the negligence OF any person or
corporation, to prove lack of cOntributOry
negligence on their part but providing that
evidence showing contributory negligence
may be made part OF the defense. In
order to clinch the passage of the bill Sena-
ttor Hugg made motion to reconsider and
Immediately afterward moved to table the
motion. He did so barely in time for he had
hardly resumed his seat when Senator
Drummond also moved to reconsider the
vote of passage. He was told of Senator
Hugg's molten and sat down confused
No. rs Senator Lambert: Allowing a ma
jority of the board of directors of any coll
lege, incorporated under a special charter,
to have one certain religious belief. The
bill was for the benefit of Butler College
which has been bequeatbed large sum by
Joseph Irwin, of Columbus, on condition
that the college be under the control of the
Christian Church.
No. 80. Senator New: To permit courts
Of original jurisdiction to fix the attorneys
fees in cases where poor persons have taken
changes of venue to another court
No 33 Senator Newly: Allowing ten or