The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-02-02
TIMES BUREAU
At THE STATE CAPITAL.

AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
Indianapolis, Ind. Feb. 2. Mr..
Grounding is to be given more free
dom, is to be permitted to wait until
cloudy day for his annual first |
appearance instead of being com
PEELED to come out in just any sort of
weather the second day of February |
may provide. That is, he will be Civ
en- that freedom If nine gentlemen
selected to regulate the appearance OF
the alternating memmal do their duty |
as outlined In a resolution introduced
In the house yesterday afternoon by
Representative Strickland. The reso-
luton runs as follows, and was unani-
mously adopted by the house;
Resolved, That Messrs. Grieger Fur
mas and Hay be appointed a committee
to proceed at once TO have Messrs. Hill,
Clore and Gottschalk confer with
Messrs. Jak, Sunkel and Haggard and
instruct the three last named gentle
men to draw up bill to be presented
to the house that will regulate the date
of ground hog day. said date to be
to the satisfaction of Messrs. Carter.
Miller and Seidensticker and be fixed
preferably on the first cloudy day in
February"
To Purify st. Joseph River.
The bill of Representative McGin-
Miss for the publication of streams and
to prevent the emptying of sewage and
other impure matter into such streams
was amended yesterday in a very inn
| portant feature insofar as 1t affects the
cities on the St. Joseph river. This
| river has its source in Michigan and
runs through some of the northern
Indiana counties, including ST. Joseph,
and runs back into Michigan and into
Lake Michigan When the bill for the
| publication of streams came up in the
house on second reading yesterday
Representative Elliott of st. Joseph
county offered and an amendment,
which says that the bill shall not apply
| to rivers or any part of which run in
other states. He said this amendment
was intended for the relief of the cit
les of the ST. Joseph river and no 9TH
ers. and the amendment was adopted.
Farmers XIII "a Bill.
A bill, introduced by Representative
Wells of Allen county, fixing plan
under which adjoining townships and
counties might improve and repair
township and county line roads. was
/ d
plan was to assign township each al
ternate mile of the road to be kept in
repair, and the same with adjoining
counties. But the farmers in the house
objected to it because, they said, a
township on one side of the road might
get all of the improved pieces of road
and the other township get all the I'M
improved miles to keep in repair. They
-
were opposed to it, so it was killed.
What 1t Costs to Make Laws.
1t costs the state just 1902 for the
house to scrap for thirty-eig minutes
yesterday afternoon over the bill to
prohibit gypsies and other travellers
from stopping on a highway for more
than twenty-four hours at time. Some
enterprising statistician figured out
) how much it costs to run the house q
} day and then calculated the value OF
} the time spent on this bill, and he
found it was s102. The bill finally was
: advanced to engrossment and will come
up for passage in another day or two.
Agents Must BE Licensed.
Under the present law agents for life
insurance companies organized under
the laws of the state of Indiana are not
: required to take out state licenses
: Agents for foreign insurance companies
D must be licensed. Yesterday the sen
ate passed a bill introduced by Sena-
: tor Kimmell of Kendallville requiring
E all agents for Indiana companies to BIZ
licensed and registered by the state au
ditor. The license fee will be 81, and
. any agent that solicits life Insurance.
without a license will be liable to {
heavy fine.
Pluto Is aSved.
o Pluto was saved yesterday by tn,
}. house. when Senator Talbott's bill wa
n passed. This bill provides a penalt!
e for any person who drills into a veil
J. of natural mineral water and wastes
the water. Talbot says some persons
\ are drilling into the springs at Frencl
/ Lick from which Tom Taggart get
his pluto water and that they are abou
] to put Pluto out of business. Hence
this BILL
Bounty on Rats.
The prize bill of all made its appear
a ance in the Hobbies of the house yes
e terday afternoon, but il has not We
been introduced. 1t places a bounty OF
s rats 1t provides that a bounty of
It cent shall be paid by the township 70
each rat killed. In order to get the
= cent the rat-killer is required to TAX
k the rats tail to the township truste
and make an affidavit that the rat wa
f killed in the township Then he cal
a get his cent. It is a cinch that tn
;. members will have fun with that bill
! when it comes up for discussion.
Il To Cut on the PIums.
The republicans laid aside polite
yesterday when the house resolution
T prepared by the democrats was pre-
sented for adoption calling for an in
vestigation of the needs Of the stat
Offices during the next two years. TIL
resolution is in line with the recon
:. mendation made by Governor Marshall
: He said he thought the legislator
ought to appoint a commission to g
through the state Offices and ascer
% tain just what work is done, how II /
II done. how much help is required to d
: the work and how much help ought t
be paid. He said he believed Their
d were dozens of useless deputies an
# clerks and other assistants in the stat
"a / offices who could be droDped and tn