The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-27

deal WISH 4 COuld get INTO IL OeNlei,
there's juicy Jackpot for the opener on
winners.
Shacklett began TO work on his blanks so
assiduously that he soon had chance to
! throw the papers aside and walk the room
with his hand industriously pushing back
a few hairs from his forehead which as
| often not had not fallen down. He final
| ly decided to wait for what came in Chi
cago and to take only a comfortable room
| and board the same place. instead of
his previous plan Of eating dinner at a
| swell restaurant every day to make valua-
bic acquaintance. He saw now that to
go to the restaurant once a week would
answer just as we'll
The asylum bill came UP in the House on
| Friday. He met the member from the
northern part of the State coming out of
the executive office that morning. and was
told that the appointment would be made
the next week, to take effect as soon as
the Legislature adjourned. if he landed his
nine men. He went to see them all for a
| final inspection Of their safety. and found
that all had remembered him. Then he
went TO the House and sat on a sofa under
| the right-hand gallery.
After Carter had his amendment placed
bill for the licensing of BARRIERS, after ex-
animation by state board. advanced TO
second reading. because everybody was
busy, the gavel fell, and the announcement
that the special order was Senate bill No.
347 sent pages scurrying out and brought
members in, while the galleries filled with
the people who had been out during the
entr acte
| TIVE phar hoi wit
arms appraised, palms forward, and the din
for recognition began. Potter. of Hancock,
needed all the votes he could get in that
county next time and the only thing he
had succeeded in accomplishing that ses-
sion was the arrangement with the speaker
| by which he was recognized at this impor-
tant moment. He moved TO substitute the
word Warsaw in line ninety-eight, and the
speeeh-making to the galleries and the
newspaper men began.
Shacklett had been talking to the assist
ant adjutant general, and when he first
saw her Miss Stoddard was leaning for
ward in the first row Of seats in the gal
lery over the door. Shacklett smiled slight
ly at her pose of intense interest, and won
dered if a woman ever would take defeat
philosophcaly. Then he turned to the
proceedings as the last speech was being
concluded.
Every seat had an occupant, for there
were plenty of men only too glad to sit at
the desks of the few members absent and
the many out of their places Potter, of
Hancock, was flying around making his
last appeals and his last offers. dozen
converse tons with mouth close to ear were
going on over the chamber. Driscoll, whom
all the papers charged with having been
bought outright, was at a desk well in
front on the left-hand side, where he could
face the House and galleries and boldly
scorn the Kisses which came later when he
voted. The Governors private secretary
came through the door and stood with an
air of great unconcern against the wall.
his eyes sweeping the whole room keenly
and constantly. for the Governor himself
, had been charged with being too meddle-
some in this tickish matter. Every clerk
in the Statehouse was in the lobby under
! the galleries, and Shacklett had to stand
, and push forward to see what was going
on. The first name on the roll happened to
be that of man from 10 Daviess county,
who desired to explain his vote. and it de-
veloped that he required twenty minutes
to make a satisfactory explanation. At
the end of five minutes somebody made a
! point of order. which overruled. and a
minute later the point that the speaker
was not explaining. but Grating, was sus-
: tanned. Then the representative of 10 Da-
e viess county had to go back few minutes
a | to begin where he had depressed. and pa
r thence ceased to be virtue.
y Four men at once began to yell MIR.
a | Speaker and when the first had his point
o of order not sustained five more began to
:, | address the chair in voices trained by long
[ distances on the farm, and two Others
e pounded their desks with books. The mem
. Der from 10 Daviess, who had been going
n on with his speech if he were address
ing a congregation of silent worshipers at
- church. finally stopped and waited for order
r TO resume. AS he leaned forward Potter
d reached his ear and said something, exact
: Iy what he never would tell. which brought
t the explanation 10 a sudden close half d
/ minute later. 1t reminded Shacklett of the
= sudden stopping of a sawmill. when the
[ House suddenly became still that the
3 voice of the clerk seemed unnecessarily
loud as he again advanced to his desk and
o | called the second name on the roll. Shack
, lett shifted his position and then started.
I Leaning almost over the balustrade now
her eyes shining and her face pale, Miss
| Stoddard sat as immobile as the decorative
figures on the ceiling Only her eyes were
moving and as Shacklett followed their
n ! direction he saw her father earnestly talk
r ing TO a member in one Of the rear seats
e Then she shifted her eyes to different parts
n of the house. scanning faces and noting
. every movement on the floor. Shacklett
t stepped back where she could not see him
{ and instantly wondered why he had done
Y so. 1t was a fair field, and he had told hel
, | frankly his position. He sat down and
= looked out of a window, with his eyes or
e vacancy and his hand pushing back that
y lock of hair again. He was thinking prin-
| cpally about whom to get to attend to the
e farm that summer while he was in Chicago
f He heard the roll call proceeding An.
I derson had voted "No" on the pending
= amendment TO insert Warsaw, and Shack
lett noted with satisfaction that Arnold, oil
e Piatt, Immediately following Anderson, wa.
n punching his votes, especially when Bates
e another one, just after. Campbell
Y and Carter voted NO" and Shacklet
d smiled at the unintended wisdom in hi.
e beginning at the top of the roll to selec
his men that day. Carter was soon fol
lowed by Dunbar. and Shacklett felt tina
e he was travelling 10 Chicago by expires: