The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26
INDIANA EDITORIAL COMMENT.

The present Legislature IS accomplishing
great amount of work. If it is not work.
ing too hastily to be necessarily considerate
of state interests the State will continue to
applaud.-Elkhart Review.
The law which allows a court to appoint
a number of attorneys to assist in the de-
Tense of prisoner is weak. 1t causes
needleSsly heavy expense to the counties
and should be amended.-Rushville Graphic
The bill which passed the House Satur-
day prohibiting townships from voting sub
sides of any size to electric railroads or
any other lines of transportation is one
which should never have received a vote in
the affirmative. 1t is clearly an infringement
upon local ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Item.
In the summer or fall of 1897 the county
commissioners bought a thirty-four foot
bridge and had it delivered at Windfall
where it still lies. Is that one of the ways
that the commissioners have of expending
the peoples money, buying bridges and then
find no place to put them ?-Tipton Advo-
cate
The Indiana Legislature is not going to
pass a law providing that teegraphers and
BARRIERS shall be licensed in this State. In
the first profession the company that en-
plcys incompetents can be held responsible
In the second, a barber cannot pull out a
mans whiskers but once.-Lafayette Cour-
Ter.
The bill which passed the House in the
may be voted by any township to one-half
of 1 per cent. may work serious injury to
certain localities Whether so intended or
not, it is in the interest of railroads that
have a monopoly of the railroad business in
many towns of the State, to the disadvan-
tage of such towns. This bill would fix the
limit of subsidy that could be voted in
Wayne township to about $40, O00.-Richmond
Palladium.
1t should be remembered that the public
schools are for the whole people, and that
any schemes that are bred and fostered
which will have for their effect a weakening
of the school system will not have the sup
port and sympathy of the public. Let us
keep the schools out of politics. They are
moving upward and onward all the time
They should not be made side issues to re-
lglous institutions of any creed, and least
of all, the pet of any political soldier of
fortune.-EYansville Journal.
The House passed a bill on Saturday
which lowers the tax levy, which a town
ship may assess in order to grant subsidies,
from two cents to one-half cent This will
seriously interfere with any railroad being
brought in here 1t is said the bill is
fathered by the railroad companies in order
to put a stop to the growth of electric lines.
AT any rate the citizens committee and
others interested in getting any electric
road or the Indiana Southern in here should
see to 1t that it does not go through the
Senate.-Richmond Item.
The proposed changes in the present adj
mirable metropolitan police law as en-
bodied in bill introduced by Senator Win
field, have been made a special order for
discussion in the Senate on Wednesday
afternoon of this week 1t is hoped that
those who may discuss the law will provide
themselves with facts bearing upon the eff
fects of the present law in all cities where
the law has jurisdiction If the good re-
suits of the law are properly understood
there will not be much room for arguments
for throwing the police powers back into
the hands of the mayor.-Michigan City
News.
We would like to hear from some one
who has studied the subject why the nom
state educational institutions should not be
granted representation on the State Board
of Education. Why should the state col
leges be practically given. control of that
board and allowed to discriminate against
the graduates of nonstate colleges in the
matter of teachers licenses? Why should
not a certain degree of proficiency be the
standard. and not the school from which
the certificate issues? The state school men
who are in the saddle now will realize later
the unwisdom of trying to be the whole
thing" when their obstinacy cultivates a
sentiment which Will not only unseat them,
hut may go farther and jeopardze the state
schools ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Republican.
The recent disclosures in Shelby county
show woefully corrupt state of affairs
down there. One rascally job-that of the
change of venue fees in the Singmaster and
Ward case-is in a manner connected with
this county, where large, excessive and il
legal fees were allowed by the county COM
misSioners without a proper investigation.
! All of the fees allowed were not turned
into the Shelby county treasury. Who has
them? The recent bridge scandals in Shelby.
where the commissioners bought Il half
dozen bridges at an enormous expense with
| out advertising, has stirred the Shelby tax
nayers from center to circumference. as
/ tAey do not propose to be robbed.-Green-
fpla ReDublicar.