The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-01-30
II All Petitions for Additional
Temples of Justice Were
Granted, Indiana Would
Soon Be Broke.
is THE LEGISLATURE
LOAFING on ITS JOB?
At End of Third Week Over
Five Hundred Bills Have
Been Entered But Only Few
Have Been Passed.
Palladium Bureau
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 81

Palladium Bureau
| indianapolis, Jan. 80.
| II all the new courts were establish
ed by the legislature that have al
ready been asked at this session the
additional cost would be considerable
to the state. But the legislature
ems to be going slow about making
ay new courts at all.
OF course, the greatest interest CEN
tiers in the Lake county court fight
and the one from Sullivan and Greene
counties. But there are several others
that look at this time like they may
make almost as much trouble as these
two.
The bill to establish a new superior
court at Gary has passed the senate
and is now in the house. The bill to
give Hammond an additional superior
Judge is ready for passage in the SEN
ate and when it comes to a vote it is
believed it will pass just as the Gary
bill passed, since Gary and Hammond
seem to have buried the Ratchet and
smoked the pipe of peace. But what
will happen when the two bills get to
the house is a question. Each side
is claiming that both bills will get
through the house all right. but there
are some others who do not believe
that any court bill atall will pass that
body.
Big Scrap Going On.
Then there is the big scrap between
Linton and Bloomfield, too, that has
made so much trouble. Bloomfield is
the county seat of Greene county. in
which Linton also is situated. Greene
county and Sullivan county form one
judicial circuit. Bloomfield and Sulli-
van both wish to divide the circuit
and have Judge for each county.
Linton wants the circuit. left as 1t is
and is asking the legislature to create
a new superior court for the two
counties, the court to sit at Sullivan
and Linton. Bloomfield Is fighting
this proposition. The Linton court
bill has passed the senate and the
Bloomfield Sullivan separation bill has
been killed. The Linton bill has gone
to the house also. In the house there
is also Bloomfield-Sullivan bill, so
the fight is not ended by a good deal.
Causes Family Row.
One amusing feature of the Linton
Bloomfield fight is the fact that it
has made foes of father and son. Gil
bert H. Hendren. who was chairman
of the democratic state speakers bur-
eau in Indiana during the last cam
paign, lives at Bloomfield and his son,
Berry Hendren, a lawyer, lives at Lin
ton. Hendreh, ST., wants divided
circuit and no court at Linton. Hen
dren, Jr., wants a court at Linton and
no divided circuit. The two Hendrens
have been here on opposite sides in
the war, and finally they have ceased
speaking to each other.
Clay and Putnam counties. which
form one circuit, have asked to be
divorced and each made a separate
circuit. Morgan and Owen counties
form one circuit and Morgan county
has asked a divorce. It wants Owen
court tackled on to Putnam SO Morgan
may have a court of it's own. A bill
to separate Clay and Putnam has
been reported favorably by the senate
committee, but nothing has been done
with Morgan and Owen.
Want Separate Circuits.
Howard and Upton are asking for
separate circuits, also. Grant and
Howard are asking for a division of
their superior court, so each county
may have a court of its own.
Now comes the north end of the
state with scheme to make Elkhart
county a separate circuit. To do this
ciusko and Whitley in a joint circuit
and Lagrange and Noble in another.
At present kosciusko is a separate
circuit. No bill for this change has
yet been introduced, however, but it
is said to be on the way.
4 Court fights are always about the
most bitter of all fights before the
legislature. and this session is no ex-
ception. But while the senate has
been inclined to be generous with all
who ask for new courts there is a
general belief that the house will not
be SO free with them
4 Legislature Ioarin9.
Here it is, the end of the third week
of the legislature and practically moth
ing has been done. Only few bills
have been passed in either house, and
what have been passed are not of
much consequence. Up to this time.
however. about 500 bills have been in
troduced. This is an unusual number
for this time of the session. and still
the end is not in sight. The indica-
tions at present are that the number
of bills introduced at this session will
break all records. Two years ago ~
bills were introduced during the sixty
one days of the session. which Was the
highest number ever introduced at
any session up to that time. II they
keep on this time. however, this total
will be eclipsed before the session is
half gone.
4 UHbiE lights DISQUALIFICATION