The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-26
Committee on Railroads Favor
Passage of BANDS Two
Cent Fare Bill.
GEN. WALLACE'S STATUE
SENATOR MooRE,s BILL FOR AP-
PRoPRIATIoN OF $1,000 THERE
FOR IS PASSED-TO BEAUTIFY
NANCY HANKS GRAVE.
(By Demas S. Coe.)

ICY OSfNdS - SoCJ
Indianapolis, Jan 25.-Tne senate
transacted business today at very
rapid rate A number of bills were
introduced, reports of committees re-
ceived, and several measures advanc-
ed to engrossment.
Just before noon adjournment. Sen
ate committee on railroads. submitted
a report which recommended for pas
sage Senator Bland's 2-cent-fare bill.
There were eight senate 2-cent-fare
bills under consideration by the SEN
ate committee, and frequent meetings
had to be held. The Bland bill, with
the elimination of the emergency
clause, was reported on as originally
drawn. This bill embodies the penal
ty clause for failure to buy tickets
an excess of one-half cent a mile if
cash fare is paid on board trains. This
was the provision that the railroad
companies earnestly requested should
be included
The committee believed that this
penalty would not prove hardship TO
the patrons of railroads. Where tick
ct Offices are not maintained patrons
may pay cash fares on trains without
being subject to the penalty of an ex-
ira one half cent mile. The penalty
prescribed against railroads for a vlo-
lation of the proposed act is fine OF
not less than $25 and not more than
800 for each offense, the recovery to
be made by suit brought in the name
of the State of Indiana by the attorney
general
One provision of the Bland bill, diff
ferent from most others, is that child
rem between ages of five and twelve
years shall not be charged in excess
srrx~s1SCS1ytzsF 1s71}e4--<-s
The Bland bill will come up ON sec
ond reading on Monday.
X X
Senator Thomas Moore's bill. No.
%, to appropriate $4,000 for a statute
of General Lew Wallace, to be placed
i'm Statuary hall in the national Capt.
tol at Washington, was passed.
The measure was subject to debate
on its second reading last week, when
the democrats sought and failed to
substitute the name of Thomas A.
Hendricks for that of General Wallace
and some of the republicans made an
effort to have the name of Benjamin
Harrison substituted for that of Gen.
eral Wallace. There was no debate
on the bill today and it passed 80 to 8.
Senators voting against the bill were:
Benz, kistler, Parks of Clark Ranke,
Slack. Shafer, Tyndall and Wood of
Jackson.
y X y
Senator Mock's bill, No. Go. chang
ing the indeterminate sentence in con-
viction for petit larceny from term
of one to three years to a term OF one
to eight years, was defeated. There
were II for the bill and % against
It.
The opposition to the bill was bas I
ed on the ground that it provided for I
too severe punishment for comparati- +
vely slight offenses. Senators Mock,
Kimbrough and others who favored
the bill. said the measure was TO fur I
ther the chances of reformation. The |,
convicted man, it was argued realiZ- /
ing that his maximum stay in prison /
could not be longer than three years, I
was in many instances, difficult to
control, while the possibility of being /
confined maximum period of eight /
years, has a tendency to make the |
convicted man walk the chalk
Senator Slack's Joint resolution re- !
quiring voters to register, and also
providing certain educational qualifi-
cations for voters after 1911, was ad
vanced to engrossment without OBJ
lection.
The bill to place the burial ground
at Lincoln City, Spencer county. in
which repose the remains of Nancy
Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham
Lincoln, under the states care, was
passed by vote of So TO 0. The bill
was introduced by Senator Pelzer
The author made a short address ex-
planning the provisions of the bill and
expressing the hope that there would
be no opposition. Senators Bland
Benz. Kimbrough and Thomas Moore 4
. strongly indorsed the bill.
The bill creates a state commission, |
which shall have full charge of the |
burial ground. The members are to |
serve without compensation. and one /
of the members is to be the secretary !
of the state board of forestry. The !
sum of $4,000 is to be appropriated i'm !
mediately after the passage and TAX /
ing effect of the act. for the purpose
of beautifying the burial ground. and
annually thereafter $500 is to be ap-
propriated from the state treasury TO
care for the burial ground.
Among the bills recommended for
passage today was Senator Cavin's
measure, permitting any savings bank
with surplus of at least 5 per cent.
on deposit 10 pay trustees such trus-
tees such amount as the directors ,