The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-02-09
Democrats on Public Morals
Committee All Sign Majority
Report and Republicans Mi
nority Report.
REP. HOSTETTER TOOK
A NEUTRAL POSITION
Senate Today Passed the
Towns and Cities Bill,
Which includes Many New
Municipal Features.
Palladium Bureau,
OndianapoIje, Feb. Q


indianapolis, Feb. ..
The House committee on public
morals this morning reported back to
the house the amended form OF the
Tomlinson liquor bin along the lines
which have already been published.
with q few changes. The committee
eliminated the licensing Of restaur-
ants to sell liquor and inserted max
imum and minimum scale for incor-
porated towns and cities of different
populations. A change has also been
inserted which will limit the number
Of saloons to the population. The
scale will be. as proposed by the COM
mittee. one saloon for each flve hum
dred Of the population.
Republicans Against Il.
The majority report Of the commit
tee favoring the bills passage were:
Racey. Faulkner. Moss. McKennan
and Harris. who are all democrats.
The republicans. however, ON the
committee stood together for killing
the bill and signed minority report
to that effect. These republicans
were Jay. Maddox and Elliot.
Hostettsr Was Neutral.
Representative Hostetter. who has
stod firm in his fayoring the present
county local option law remained ne1-
trail on this proposition. This fact
may have some significance In the
trend of the liquor legislation.
The bills introduced into the house
this morning were two I'm number:
One by Gauss to require all county
officers handling money to give bond
and another by Seidensticker to put
the prosecuting attorneys on q salary.
Cities and Towns Dill.
The much mooted cities and towns
bill fathered by Senator Mattinsly to
! day passed the senate. In its present
form the bill provides that the office
Of the city treasurer shall be abol-
ished in the county seats and the work
given over to the county treasurer
who will receive for his extra work
the sum of one thousand dollars In
extra in cities of the third class. and
ive hundred in the fourth and NTH
class cities.
The auditors salary In the third
class will be fixed at four hundred
above the present salary and three
hundred extra In the fourth class.
AZ to City Judss.
By this bill the city Judge win Be
| abolished in the NTH class and his
duties transferred to those Of the may
or. The matter il left optional With
the city councils In the third and
| fourth class. All the incumbents of
offices under the present Law are al.
! lowed to serve out their terms. The
Tomlinson bill also provides for coun-
cilmen at large. from two to six In
number. who are ineligible to succeed
themselves
| Sunday 0aseeall Dill.
In the senate the base ball bin wa
| brought In With . divided report this
| afternoon. In the committee there
was some controversy over the natter
and Q majority report favored the bdH
While senator KirkmAn of Wayne,
| siGned the minority report
| The bill has an the pruopects e -
l ing made = law by the senate by .
! small majority such n Il received tn
the house last week. Reports are eZ'
ceedineiy confusing - to the fnfe q
the bin R Il passes the senate. ft +
ramcred both that NarsAall Wlm and
wfll not Sign TIE hill. b9t ~ - -
fused to express himself - u naf