The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14
GOVERNORS WORK DONE
HE HAS SIGNED OR VETOED THE
LAST BILLS TO BE CONSIDERED.
Two Hundred and FOrty-Eight New
Statutes and Thirty-Efght VetOes-
Attorney Generals Opinion.

The acts of 1903, the fruits of the labor of
the Sixty-third General Assembly, number
24s The recent Legislature turned out,
with the assistance of the Governor, just
eighteen fewer laws than did the Legislature
of 1901, the session of that year being re-
sponsible for 266 measures. The Governor
swung his ak thirty-eight times this year,
vetoing right and left with the impertur-
liability Of Grover Cleveland. Two or
three times vetoes were signed but with
drawn, as in the case of the Statesman
travelling library bill and the Branch Mar
tinsville school bill.
Yesterday the executive completed his
labors connected with the Sixty-third Gen.
eral Assembly. Out of the mass of bills
which had been on his desk remained but
three to be disposed of. The Governor had
vetoed Senate bill No. 81 Thursday-the
Hurry bill to create a state laboratory of
hygiene-but held 1t over day before max
ing formal announcement. The other bill
ne decided to throw in the waste basket
was the Mummert insurance bill, providing
that foreign mutual companies might do
business in Indiana provided that they
complied with the same requirements de-
manded of companies operating in Indiana
exclusively-s2O,OO0 cash capital and 100000
| worth of bona fide premium notes. The bill
was vetoed principally for the reason that
it contained no provision for the making
of detailed statement to the auditor of
state. The Governor and Attorney General
Miller held also that such an act would be
letting down the bars in dangerous fash
| ion.
TWO MORE NEW LAWS.
Two bills were made laws by the execu-
| tive approval yesterday. Senate bill No.
| 153-Parks-provides that when defective
children are sent by any county to an or
| phans' home other custodial institution
other than a state institution the county
| commissioners shall make an allowance of
| 80 cents a day for the maintenance of each
child sent.
House bill No. 396-Branch-gives the
school corporation of Martinsville the right
| to issue bonds not to exceed $20, 900 for the
purpose of making necessary school i'm
provements. This bill was vetoed by the
Governor and afterward recalled by him
and signed.
Commenting on bills signed and vetoed,
| Attorney General Miller said yesterday: II
| think the work of the Legislature has in
y the main been beneficial. Some bills were
| passed perhaps that ought to have been
killed and some were killed that ought to
have been passed, but on the whole the
people Jared pretty we'll during the session
| just closed
The attorney general was in favor of hav-
| ing a bill passed giving insurance COM
| panies the right to invest in state county
| and municipal bonds of other common
| wealthS. Such bill was introduced during
| the session, but there was a section tackled
| on it giving such companies the right to in
| vest in securities of solvent corporations.
| This was going too far, it was believed.
and the bill was killed. The principal bill
| in which the attorney general was inter-
ested, the Hendee antitrust bill-so-
| called-was defeated in the Senate after
| hard struggle. This bill would have al
| lowed the attorney general to file proceed
| ings in the Supreme Court against the
usurping sheriff of Sullivan county as well
| as against corporations acting Illegally.
The new book of statutes will be out OF
| the hands of the state printer in few
| weeks. The final batch of proof was re-
turned yesterday afternoon by Deputy Sec
| rotary of State Grubbs after arduous Ia
| bors in revising and correcting.
H. b. NO. 10 SLIPPED THROUGH.
The attention of Mr.. Grubbs was called
yesterday to the fact that although the
House had killed House bill No. 10-allow-
| ing counties, cities and towns to make
| total levy of 80 cents in case additional
| funds were needed for school-the bill had
been signed by the president of the SEN
| ate, the speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives and the Governor. and. conse-
| quently, had become a law. Mr.. Grubbs
said that since the House had taken no
| further action in recalling the bill after
| voting to reconsider the vote by which it
| had been passed, its action was therefore
| null and void and the bill would stand as
| law. This is the view taken by lawyers
| generally, who say that the courts will not
| go behind the signatures of the Governor
| and the presiding officers of the houses
| 1t is more or less of mystery how the
| bill got to the Governor after the House
had reconsidered its action in passing it,
| The supposition is that during the rush
| of the last few hours of the session there
| was motion made to recall the bill after
it had gone to the Governor. AS origin
ally introduced the bill provided for an in
| crease of cents in the state tuition levy
| The Senate amended the bill to give local
| authorities power TO raise money for their
4 schools if it became necessary