The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-01-28


the state from the 18th of April to the
18th of June. It was amended to read
from the 18th OF April to the 18th of
June.
Several senators took the position
that this was the very time of the
year when the people ought to be al
lowed to go out to the streams and
catch or kill carp in order to get rid
Of them, and that such a closed season
rest Of the fish.
up my way, the Kankakee river
is SO full of carp that they are destroy
ing all the good fish, said Senator
Halleck. in the spring OF the year
the river overflows and thousands OF
acres of corn fields and pastures along
the river are flooded to depth OF
from one to four feet, and thousands
of carp go out into the corn fields at
such times. l think it would be too
bad to prohibit the boys and men of
that country from going out at such
times with pitchforks and killing
them
stotsenburg Is Wit ~
I'm answer to Senator Halleck, >
said Senator Stotsenburg. Il wish to
say that this bill only applies to
sire ans and not to corn fields. Your
boys and men will have the right to
go out in the corn fields and fish any
time they please
At the close of the comedy perfor-
nance the bill failed to pass, the vote
being % ayes and "a nays.
The senate passed the bill that
creates a Saturday half holiday for all
county offices in counties that have a
population of more than $4,000, from
June l to September 1. 1t is believed
that the house will pass the bill. al
So This limit of population will make
the bill apply to every county in the
state.
Nice Plum For Muncie.
Muncie is likely to get new state
school. Some days ago bill was in
troduced under which the state would
accept as a gift the old Muncie normal
school property and buildings and
that it should establish therein a nor
NAL school similar to the state normal
at Terre Haute. The property is val
liable, At a meeting of the house
committee on education. yesterday az
ternoon, it was practically decided to
make a favorable report on the bill,
and the members will go to Muncie
Friday afternoon to take look at the
property that has been offered to the
state 1t is pointed out that the state
normal at Terre Haute has more than
thousand students in excess of its
real capacity and that relief from this
crowded condition is necessary.
For Insane Criminals.
One of the bills introduced yester-
day that is attracting attention is the
one introduced by Representative
Faulkner of Michigan City, to estab-
lish a state hospital for criminal in
sane. 1t provides for an appropria-
ton Of $4,000 for the purchase of
Under this bill the new institution
would be under the jurisdiction Of the
board of trustees of the Indiana peni-
Tertiary at Michigan City and the war
den of that prison would be the man
in charge of the new institution.
The bill makes provisions for a
building that will contain las beds,
and it says that all the insane inmates
of the penitentiary and of the Jeffer-
sOnville reformatory shall be remov-
ed there as soon as the hospital is
ready. Whenever any inmate of eth
er institution shows signs of insanity
a lunacy commission shall sit and de-
termine his mental condition, and if
he is found to be insane he shall be
transferred there. also. Insane GRIM
inals in county jails would also be
sent there.
The Board of State Charities has
had in mind for some time an insti-
tuition of this character and it is UNI
derstood that this board is arranging
to introduce bill along that line. 1t
may. however, decide to support the
Faulkner bill.
Elections Have Effect.
There was noticeable change of
sentiment, yesterday. among the law
makers, when the news, came that
four more counties in Indiana had
voted themselves dry at county option
elections. and there is feeling that
the results in these four counties seals
the doom of the bills for the repeal
of the county option law. Every
county that has voted thus far, seven
in all, has gone dry by large majorit-
les, and a good many of the members
of the legislature are of the opinion
that local option is what the people
want and that the right to vote on the
question should not be taken away
from them.
1t is at least safe to say that the
legislature will go slow in changing
this law at this session.
Good bye, shoddy. Good bye. fake.
Thirty years ago Will Cumback
went up and down the state delivering
lecture on King Bogus" in which
he told the people that they were be-
ing bled by the sharks that sell them
an article under one name when it
really was something else. And the
members of the legislature seem to
think that this same old nracticp is