Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-03-09
Indiana Legislature Nearing
the End Of Its Biennial
Labors.
THE LAST WORKING DAY
All That Now Remains TO Be Done Is
the Signing of Some Bills and
the Closing Ceremony.
Something OF the Cost of the Sixty
Second General Assembly of
Indiana

indianapolis, March 9.-This prac
ticaiiy was the last working day of
the I'D general assembly From the
time that the legislature began 10 as
semble al the usual hour this morning
up until adjournment hour this after
noon, both houses were disorganized
and but little effort was made TO Sc
cure action on the pending bills.
Speaker Artman yesterday announced
that the scenes usually accompanying
the final adjournment of the house
would be omitted this session. The
speaker meant LAT the book throwing.
the paper-wad fights. the jokes and
puns and witty filings and little re
marks that possessed some personal
sting would not be allowed today on
the floor of the house. For the most
part his word was respected but
toward the close of the days work
the representatives could no longer
contain themselves, and ut late hour
this afternoon IL was apparent that
some of the scenes that occurred at
the end of the session two years ago
would be repeated this year.
On Monday night at II O'Clock the
senate and the house of the ed gen
eral assembly will come to final ad-
journment. Today an estimate of the
cost of the session was made and il
was found that the warrants issued
from the office of the state auditor
called for d total amounting TO 500
221 10. leaving a balance of $50. T0s 90
of the s1o50O0 appropriated TO meet
the expenses. Of these warrants is
sued. nearly the full amounts have
been paid by the treasurer, as very
few of the employees hold their war
rants longer than 1t takes them to
go down the elevator from the ses-
sion rooms TO the treasurer's office
The expenses at the end of the term
everything included. will not increase
the total more than to $4,000.
The state of Indiana. if the COVER
nor approves of the bill, will bear
hereafter as its state banner the
United States flag. The presentation
of a bill 4 ,opting this emblem brought
about "A wordy war and a display Of
oratorical pyrotechnics such as have
not been heard before in the session.
house Mr.. Davis. the minority leader.
rose in his seat ard said: "Notwith-
: IA a,.ssa..< Republican party has
raised the flag over the clankfng
chains of human slaves in the Philip
pines. Democratic love for the grand
old banner is such that we of the
minority in this house gladly vote for
this bill" The Democrats applauded
Mr. Scott of Montgomery brought
round of applause from the Republi-
can side by saying: I'VE are glad to
notice that the Democrats have be-
come so imbued with love of the flag.
As we used TO say in the army. we
had to give large ma ajority of them
a HI of thrashing before they were
inspired with love-
Mr. Airhart in a speech that proved
him man of prodigious lung power.
took the floor in turn 10 score the
Republicans for raising the flag above
the harem of the sultan of Sulu.'
"whoop, Hooray.' shouted the Re-
publican members as the member
from Boone continued his TRADE The
discussion in a few minutes passed
itself up TO the speaker who. scoring
Davis for creating the furor. ordered
the debate broken off.
Governor Durbin has vetoed the bill
that sought TO give the commissioners
of Dekalb county salary of SioO
wear Some senators. in view of this
gubernatorial action. surmised today
that all the fee and salary bills passed
this session would meet with the same
rf,A hn
governors veto attached. would be re-
turned to the assembly on Monday
too late for further action by the legis-
lature Special bills have been passed
increa sing the income attached to of
fees in Jasper. Lake and Starke coun-
ties. and bill has been passed TO put
the surveyor of Marion county on sal
arv. This bill il is maintained. is
drawn in such way that its appli-
cation is more general than special
Ii was said today also that the gov
ernor viii veto the bill putting county
sheriffs and clerks on salaries. indie
pendent of whether they collect fees
enough 10 pay the salaries or not.
The house today adopted a report
from its committee in which il was
agreed that the senate amendments
10 the Minturn primary election bill
be coucurred in. The amendments re
ferred TO are nothing short of a new
biIl-the measure introduced by Sen
ator Joss and substituted in the sen
ate for the Minturn measure. The
Joss bill. bearing the name and en-
acting clause OF the Minturn bill, is
not looked upon as any step toward
primary reform at all. 1t is consid-
| cred 10 be nothing short of a bill per
petuating ring politics, rather thar
abolishinS II.