The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-02-25
BILL FOR SANITARY DISTRICT
INTRODUCED BY f. v. MICKEY
Lake County Representative Also Pushes Dairymen's
Measure Through the House Sunday Baseball
Law Now Up to Governor Marshall
TIMES BUREAU
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.

TINES BUREAU
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
indianapolis, Ind. Feb. 25.-Repre
sentative Mickey of Lake county in
troduced a bill yesterday authorizing
municipalities to join in the creation
of a sanitary district. He explains
that there are in Lake county several
cities and towns that join each other,
making practically a continuous city,
and that all are along the Calumet riv
er. The river is frightfuIly polluted
with sewage and waste material which
is dumped into it by the factories and
Industries along the banks and the
water supply of the cities is polluted
and in terrible condition. The state
health authorities have been appealed
| to, but they are power1ess to do more
than Recommend and point the way
to relief, which the towns themselves
must work out. It was suggested that
the municipalities all get together and
! form one organization for the purpose
OF lettering the conditions and it is in
the furtherance Of this plan that the
bill was introduced
WIcExey Pushes Veterinarian Bill.
Mickey pushed a bill through the
house yesterday authorizing the state
veterinarian to condemn and kill dairy
cattle found suffering with tuberculos-
is, the owner to be paid for the same
out of the state treasury. The bill
provides also that the state veterinar-
ian shall make all tests of cattle for
tuberculosis at cost. on the request Of
the owner The bill is intended to give
the dairy herds of the northwestern
part of the state proper standing in
Chicago, where nearly all the milk is
sold.
Fine For the Public.
bill that had passed the house was
passed by the senate yesterday author
ling railroads to charge ten cents ex-
cess fare when passengers pay their
fares on trains The bill provides, how
ever, that railroads must keep ticket
offices open for thirty minutes before
train time so that passengers may
purchase tickets.
The Kleckner house bill to limit
freight trains to seventy cars was also
passed by the senate.
The bill to create agricultural schools
) in all counties was killed in the house.
Senator Kirkman of Wayne county,
) was one Of the most active members
of the senate in the fight over the pub
lie accounting bill yesterday. Kirk
| man understands parliamentary pract-
ice and the rules of the senate about
as well as anyone who has been in that
body in long while and he helped
his republican brethren out Of the hole
several times in this fight through his
knowledge of the rules and practice
Sunday Baseball Legal.
OF course, the chief topic Of interest
yesterday in the legislature was the
passage by the senate of the Sunday
baseball bill. This measure, which
has had the support of all the liberal
and sporting element Of the state fol
the last two years went through the
senate with a larger vote than had
been expected. Thirty senator's voted
for it and eighteen against it. The
highest number of votes the supporters
of the bill ever claimed for it was
twenty seven, so they were surprised
about as much as anyone else when. i
received thirty.
The vote on the bill was as follows
Ayes-Beal, Benz, Bingham. Bland
Clark, Cox, Durre, Farrell, Fleming
Gonnerman. CRUDE. Harlan. Hawkins
Kane Kistler Long. McCallum, Nc
CuIIough. Mcdowell, Parks, Patterson
PeIzer, Powers, Proctor. Ranke, Royse
: Shafer. Stotsenburg, Wood and Yarl
ing. Total 80.
!. Noes-Bowser, Brady. Crumpacker
/, Halleck, Hanna Of Hendricks. Hanna o
{, Montgomery. Higgins, Kirkman, King
: Lambert, Mattingly, McCarty, Moore
D Orndorf, Pearson, Springer, Strange
and Tilden. Total IS.
A Few Changes Made.
The senate made a few unimportan
:; changes in the bill before passing II
2 and the bill has already been sent bacl
to the house for concurrence in tn
amendments. One amendment change
the wording in reference to prohibitin
the playing of baseball games durin
i other hours than from one to 81
G; o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday an
a, another made the bill read that tn
= baseball grounds must be not les
l. than one thousand feet from any es
Y, tablished church or hospital, the hos
s. pital feature being the part added b
ID the senate.
a But there is a general feeling tha
Governor Marshall will veto the bi
when it reaches him for his signatur
70 He has not said so. so far as anyon
i. knows, but that impression is out. Bu
even If he does veto 1t, there will /
e and it would probably be carried. Thel
G; an dit would probably be carried. Their
appears to be such a demand for Sur
= day baseball all over the state. that
will be difficult to resist it.
G.; Would Declare Saloon a Nuisance.
g Senator Brady introduced in the SCI
ate yesterday a bill to provide thS
q, every place maintained for the sale
y intoxicating liquor as a beverage sha
= " IT..
H. line with Judge Artman's decisic
while he was on the bench at Leblanc
n Judge Artman held that a saloon ws
IS, nuisance per Sc. The bill intr,
5c duced by Senator Brady was prepare
er by Robert Denny of Westfield and
s. Endorsed by the prohibition party
:, the state. The same bill is to be il
troduced in the house by Represents
er tive Sticks. A copy OF the measure 70