The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-02

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ton commission bill on drainage was adj
vanced to engrossment with amendments
The rights and privileges committee re-
ported for passage of codi6cation COM
missions eminent domain bill that pass
ed the Senate. In the House the House
bill for State laboratory of hygiene, I'M
der direction of State Board of Health,
was passed. Ehe Ulrey Senate bill for
track elevation in Fort Wayne was pass
ed. The House bill for registration and
examination of trained nurses, under
board created by bill was passed with
amendments. A legislative reapportion-
ment bill was introduced by Senator
Kirkman.
A new graft scandal was uncovered
in the Legislature Wednesday, when
Representative Ananias Baker flashed
sealed envelope before the eyes of his as
tonished colleagues and shouted that it
contained bride given him by the tobac-
co trust to vote against the anti-cigarette
bill. Amid silence he tore open the en-
velope and held up 500 bill. This dra-
matte episode was followed by swift &C
ton. The members within ten minutes
had passed the bill by a vote of "a to II.
An investigating committee was at once
formed, and got into action with such
celebrity that the same evening an affi-
davit was issued for the arrest of o. A.
Baker of Marion, former State Senator
and now a tobacco trust lobbyist, charg-
ing him with attempting to corrupt Rep
resentative Baker. The House passed
the Newhouse railroad commission bill,
which already has passed the Senate.
The measure creates a railroad commits
sion, composed Of three persons, to adj
just freight and express rates, supervise
passenger traffic, and adopt regulations
necessary to govern car service and the
location of switches and sidings.
Scandal is piling on scandal in the
State Legislature. Frank FitZ Gerald, a
well-known young attorney and son-in-
law of ID. NJ. Parry, acknowledged
Thursday that he had handled several
members of the present House and Sen
ate in the interest of different corpora
tions. His declaration came on the heels
of testimony that a number of envelopes
containing money and similar to the one
received by Representative Baker, whose
statement started the present graft in
vestigation, had been sent to a number of
members. The names of these members
are in the possession of the investigating
committee. In the meantime Oscar A.
Baker, former State Senator and agent Of
the tobacco trust, who is charged with
having attempted to bride the legislators
to vote against the anti-cigarette bill.
has disappeared. The House, by a vote
of So to 8, passed the Davis anti-pass
bill, which prohibits the issuance of rail-
road passes to any citizen of the State.
The bill provides heavy penalties for vio-
lations of the law. Senator Davis of
Monroe and Greene counties introduced
a bill in the Senate to prevent whites
from marrying persons having more than
one-eighth Filipino blood. The bill grew
out of a situation at Bloomington, where
Filipino students are attending the State
university and are flirting with white
girls. Parents OF these girls are fearful
of marriages and have requested the pas
sage of the bill.
A powerful plea for the adjustment
of capital punishment in Indiana was
made by Senator Kimbrough, in the
Senate Friday when he introduced
amendments to abolish capital punish
ment, to the (House) codifcation commits
sion's bill on criminal code, on second
reading. The Senator said that if he
could be instrumental in abolishing cap
ital punishment in Indiana it would be
the accomplishment of one of the dreams
of his life. The Senate refused to adopt
the amendment by a vote of 10 to 26,
and after a long discussion the bill went
to engrossment. The ways and means
committee of the Indiana House, through
its chairman, Mr.. Sayre, introduced a
bill transferring the sinking fund levy of
cents to the general fund for the years
1905. 1906 and 1907, and providing for
its restoration to the sinking fund in 1908
and 1909. This is to provide for the
heavy expenses in establishing new State
institutions without adding to the total
tax levy of the State. The House con-
CURED in the Senate amendments to
House bill No. 81, for State laboratory
of hygiene The Ruick bill, to repeal the
| Sunday baseball law, was defeated in
| the House wheE it came up on third
reading, as a special order, at II o'clock.
The vote was extremely close, and was
taken amid great excitement.
| With only ten members voting against
| it, the CURL bill to protect trade and
commerce against unlawful restraints
and monopolies, more commonly called
the CURL antitrust bill, was passed in
the House Saturday, after a compsra-
lively mild discussion lasting little more
than quarter of an hour. 1t passed
as amended on second reading last week,
the vote being 60 to 10. The House bill
providing for track elevation in Indian
apolis was taken up and passed by a
unanimous vote under suspension of the
rules, notwithstanding the fact that it
had already passed the Senate bill on
the same subject. This was by way of
precaution against any questions arising
regarding the validity of such a bill orig
mating in the Senate. The House also
passed unanimously the Senate Fort
Wayne track elevation bill, which was
taken up at the same time as the Indian
apolis bill. The Senate passed the House
criminal code bill, not, however, without
amendments, and the bill will go back
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