The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-02-11

undertaking to repeal the county, option
law, law which he said. the people
want to give a fair trial He pointed
to the results of the county option
elections as proof OF the popularity of
the law throughout state Clore, Mer-
Ram. Chrisney made speeches against
the Tomlinson bill. Hostetter, who has
been counted the leader Of the anti
repealers. made a motion to strike out
section 10 OF the Tomlinson BILL which
| is the section that repeats the county
option law. But his motion failed. the
vote being As ayes and 81 noes. Kliver
of Lake and Haggard of Tippecanoe
county did not vote on this motion.
However. both voted earlier in the day
with the vets to send the bill to en-
grossment.
A Funny Situation.
OF course the republicans or nearly
all OF them. helped the temperance dem
ocrats and pushed along their fight
| against the majority of their own party
but the real work of the night was done
by the anti-repealer democrats them
selves. 1t was fun for the republicans
to sit there and watch eleven demo-
Gratis take a poke at their own party
organization.
/ All doubt as to where Representative
Walter Ratliff OF Wayne county stood
on the liquor question vanished yester-
day when he lined up with the vets
and voted with them on every propo-
sition He even voted with them on
the Kleckner bill This bill is a
straight out repeal of the county OPP
ton law and substitution of the word
and township local option. There was
a divided report from the committee on
democrats to advance it to engrossment.
1t was said this morning that the
Tomlinson bill may come to a final vote
} in the house today, though this is not
certain
Bill at Third Base.
The fact that the Sunday baseball
bill was advanced to engressment in the
senate yesterday Is taken by some TO
mean that it is sure to pass when 1t
comes up for the final vote. The vote
: by which the favorable report was
2 adopted was % to Is. Seven senators
were absent and it is stated that al
least four of the seven will vote for
the bill.
The Inspection Bill.
Senator Volney Bingham Of ST. Jo-
seph county made a singing charge
l yesterday afternoon, when the mer-
i chants bin for uniform bookkeeping
and accounting in public offices was VI
q for passage. The bill as it was pre-
: scented originally provided for the ap-
: pointment of a bipartisan commission
which would serve as the state board
: of inspection, and that the Inspector
should be appointed by the governor
e each party to have equal representa-
e ton. The purpose was to make it alb
solutely a non-partisan matter Blu
yesterday the bill was amended in tn
a senate by a strict party vote so as t
: make the board consist of the governor
# the auditor of state and the treasure
= of state, with the treasurer OF state a
the chief inspector. The republican
voted for this amendment and the dem
ocrats against it. The democrats sal
that inasmuch as the offices of the au
9 ditor of state and the treasurer of stat
were two that would be inspected unde
this law these men should not be mem
, bers y the board that will do the in
specting
Speaks Out in Meeting.
But it remained for Senator Bing
ham to speak out in the meetin' whe
he explained his vote.
TT was charged the floor of tn
bill will create a political machine. TIL
republican members have not denie
: that charge. 1t stands undenied.
fact it is practically admitted by tn
silence of the other side. And as
> am opposed to political machines I vot
no on the bill as 1t is amended"
The amendment of the bill was
disappointment to the Merchants assc
taia al I'll he ],
. out the state who were behind it an
7 were pushing it through.
o 1t is the plan of the democrats no
Q to have the house restore the bill
about its original form and send it bac
thus amended to the senate. The den
ocrats say 1t will then be up to til
republicans to take the blame for d.
+. feating its purpose.
2 Paper Springs Surprise.
2 sensation was sprung by a loo;
paper yesterday afternoon with sto1
on the first page which purported to 8,
out the acts regarding an alleged con
bination between lot of senators
control legislation. The article in que.
ton said that it is being charged tn,
members of this combination help eaC
other to get through bills in which the
are interested, and that other legisl;
ton is allowed to drag.
According to this article the combil
= alton includes these senators: Woo
Bland Cox, Kane and Springer, repul
licans, and Kistler Stotsenburg, FIen
ing, Shafer, Proctor and Bingham der
ocrats Among those who are know
~ not to be in the combination, accor
ing to the story. are Crumpacker. Ha
leck, Horace Hanna, G. E. Hanna, r
g Ipublicans, and Beal, CRUDE. Mozart
u Long. Mccullough and Yarling, dem
20 Gratis.
% Among other things the paper sa
M this:
is The List of the Charges.
), Charges were made today that the
Il is in the senate a bipartisan combin
Sc ton with a permanent working agre
~ ment and that this combination has
within it's power to put any kind of
bill through, no matter what the n
~ ture of it's provisions. 1t was charg
= also that this combination has a Wis
2 like grip, which when fixed on b
Of a senator outside the combinati
thrott1es 1t to death without mercy
These charges were made by t