The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-02-03
SUNDAY BASEBALL BILL
MAKES HOME RUN IN HOUSE
Mickey Roots for It's Defeat and Then Introduces Bill
to Help the Farmers; Hany Veto Ignored
Local Option Fight Next.

been one of the most fruitful sources |
CT income for the sheriffs whenever it |
was allowed. But at last the supreme |
court held that the payment of such |
fees was illegal and it was stopped. |
Then this bill appeared and 1t was
passed Governor Hanly vetoed 1t. In
this session the bill came on for pas
sage over the veto and dozens of sher
IFS came in from all over the state
to pull for it.
Several democrats and republicans
made speeches against it and pointed
out that the motto of this session was
economy and no increase in salaries,
but this was a bald-faced attempt to
give the sheriffs something they should
not have. But the bill went through
with only IA votes against it.
Local Option Fight Next.
The next big fight in the house will
be the local option fight and 1t is likely
to come on today though it is not
known whether 1t will or not for sure.
1t will come when the committee on
public morals makes its report on the
Kleckner bill. which provides for sub
! stitution of township and ward option
for county option and license fee of
| $500 in towns and $500 in cities. This
is the bill prepared by the brewers and
sent into the house by a round about
route, and it is the one that met with
the approval of a majority of the eau
i Gus Monday night. There Will be
majority and minority report on the
bill and the temperance people will ask
to have the minority report. for killing
the bill. adopted. This is where the
first fight will come.
Much surprise was caused here yes
terady when it became known as a
fact that forty-six democratic members
Of the house had lined up for the bill
and that three more would do and
that these forty-nine, with two re-
publicans from Evansville. could pass
the repeal bill Seventeen democratic
members of the house had been declar-
ing in loud tones that they would not
support the measure. But something
happened. Some of them changed their
minds or at least their attitudes on the
matter and now they will vote for the
bill
The United States senator Fight.
There was something doing every
minute of the time in the senate yes
terday, for the first real political fight
Of the session was pulled off over the
Peru, denouncing the secret caucus
method of nominating United States
senator's The resolution declares that
such caucuses behind closed doors go
against the will of the people. Senator
King said in his opening speech that
an example of such case was found re-
Gently in the caucus that nominated
Benjamin f. Shively of South Bend for
senator. This made the democrats mad
; and they went at that resolution like
a thousand of brick, They accused the
, republicans of trying to make political
, capital out of it, Senator Proctor said
: the democrats have for years stood
in favor of the utmost publicity in
everything; they were in favor of the
/ election of United States senators by
direct vote of the people; in holding
r caucus behind closed doors they had
! only followed the same plan followed
> by the republicans when they nomi-
Z mated Fairbanks, Beverage and Hemen
| way for senator
' Are you ashamed of the way yol
! nominated Fairbanks. Beveridge anC
a Hemenway he shouted.
e Fight Leaves had Taste.
$ The republicans said they were no
e but they believed that the will of tn
democratic party had this time beef
thwarted. Senator King said the bull
e of the democratic party wanted JOIN
d w. Kern nominated instead of Shively
f Proctor said it was not So Procto
: characterized the resolution as bun
:. combe and rot Bland, republican, de
r nounced the Shively caucus and said
d was so rotten it SUNK
f These pleasantries were handed GU
r to each other right and left, and whe
/, the smoke cleared away 1t was hard t
It tell who had done the best, or tn
v worst. The bad feature Of the Who'll
business is that it is likely to leav
a bitter feeling in the senate that ma
e result in the holding up of some of TIL
e best bills of the session. You know
Ie when you get a mans political bloc
= to boiling he is sometimes a bad acto
d 1t begins to look like the governc
: of Indiana will have a new home
IS live in one of these days. The bill
If appropriate $4,000 for the erection {
d a new home for the governor was az
is vanced in the senate yesterday and