The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-24
THE INDIANA
LEGISLATURE

Bills FavorsbIy Reported

Bills Favorabfy Reported
Senate bills which received favor
able action by committees on Tuesday
were as follows:
Criminal Code Committee-Senate
bill No. 81; Kimbrough; abolishing
capital punishment. Senate bill No.
10; Cavins; declaring farm tenant
who appropriates crops guilty of en-
bezzlement.
Public Morals-Senate bill No. 81;
t. T. Moore: concerning establish
ment of proof of signatures to remon-
strances in liquor cases.
Public Printing-Senate bill No. &c;
E. E. Moore; concerning State print
ing. Senate bill No. 81: e. E. Moore;
concerning the distribution of election
ballots.
In the House on Wednesday the
Committee on Organization of Courts
reported favorably Mr.. Bakers bill for
the creation of a Superior Court for
Elkhart and ST. Joseph counties
The Educational Committee report
ed for indefinite postponement Mr.
Browns bill fixing the time of school
book revision.
Mr.. Condos bill to abolish capital
punishment was reported for passage
by the Criminal Code Committee. Mr.
Watson's bill permitting the dehorn-
ing of cattle was also recommended
for passage
Bills Nos. so and i6 were recon-
mended by committee for indefinite
postponement. No. IS for passage.
Senate bills which received favor
able consideration, and which were
recommended for passage and ordered
printed, were as follows:
From Cities and Towns Committee
Senate bills Nos. 6, 80 and so.
From Criminal Code Committee
Senate bills Nos. 65, IL, lis, and no.
From Finance Committee-House
bill No. "a, Senate bills Nos. Is. 40,
Is and 70.
From Insurance Committee-Senate
bill No. 81.
In the Senate on Thursday the fol-
lowing bills were recommended for
passage:
From Corporations Committee-Sen
ate bills Nos. 116 and 90.
From Criminal Code Committee
Senate bills Nos. 1873 and 135.
From Judiciary OBJ Committee
Senate bills Nos. So, 12z and 11z. (Sen-
ator Farber's anti-lobby BILL
From Judiciary (A) Committee
Senate bill No. Is. Senator Stacks
anti-lobby bill.)
From Organization of Courts Com
mittee-Senate bills Nos. So and SO.
From Public Health Committee
Senate bill No. 126.
From Public Morals Committee
Senate bill No. 81.
From Railroad Committee-Senate
bill No. 81.
AL committee reports were con
CURED in without debate.
just a Dash OF Politics.
When engrossed House bill No. "A,
which appropriated 100000 to meet
of the General Assembly, was report
ed by the Senate Committee on Fl
nance, Senator Goodwine, chairman of
the committee, offered motion to the
effect that the constitutional rules be
suspended and the bin be put on its
passage The motion carried by q
vote of fourty TO four.
woman's Suffrage Bill killed.
The House indicated that it does not
think Indiana is ready for womans SUI
| frage, as it killed Representative KEEL
| ly's bill to provide that women might
| hold elective as well as appointive Of
| fees. The House concurred in the re-
port of the Committee on Rights and
Privileges that the bill be indefinitely
postponed.
A similar bill was introduced in the
Senate by Senator Fremont Goodwine-
Considerable interest attaches to the
subject because of the recent appoint
ment by Governor Hanly of Miss Mary
Stubs to succeed her father. the late
Joseph Stubbs, as State Statistician-
No objection was raised to the appoint
ment, but Miss Stubs being urged TO
become a candidate for the nomination
| for statistician two years hence. and
doubt exists as to whether or not she
would be eligible without the enact
ment of the law proposed by Repre-
sentative Kelley.
Both branches of the Legislature are
liable to hear more OF the woman suf-
frage question, as Mrs. Helen M. Gou-
gar, of Lafayette, is in Indianapolis on
behalf of the Woman's Suffrage Asso-
citation of Indiana She is asking for
the appointment of woman's suffrage
committees in the House and Senate to
consider all bills on that subject
Under the Ak.
The House killed a radical anti-lob-
byist bill presented by Representative
Johnson, of Clinton. Two other pro-
posed reforms that were placed be-
meath the ak were Representative Gar
rard's bill exempting from taxation the
property of poor widows and orphans,
and Representative Sticks bin asking
for the appointment of congressional
boards to audit the books of the o0un-
ty officers in their district
Away, sBIind Tfgers.v
The Senate Committee on Public
Morals reported for passage Senator
Ganiard's anti-blind tiger bill. Superin-
tendent Humphreys, of the Anti-Saloon
League, is backing this measure.
Humphreys informed the Senate Com
mittee on Morals that he will not OPP
pose the $1,000 license bills, although
he is not advocating them. Fully half
of the temperance advocates are
against the high license proposition
Booked 10 Pass.
Senator Will Woods bill to compel
BARRIERS to keep their shops closed on
Sundays was advanced TO third reading
and probably will pass the Senate
Mitchell TO speak.
On motion of Senator Kirkman an in
vitation was extended to President
Mitchell, of the Mine Workers. to ad-
dress the Senate at his convenience
He accepted and will appear before the
Senate soon to discuss legislation In
which laborers are interested. He is
the first labor leader to receive such
compliment FINN the Indiana Legisla-
ture.
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