The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-06-04
SHOULD HAVE PASSED
SPECIAL SESSION
Were Originally Vetoed by Hanly, in
1907, and Accordingly Should Have
Have Been Acted in Session of 1908
Marshall Was Opposed to Fee
System-Is Glad to Tackle It.
TIMES BUREAU,
AT STATE CAPITAL

indianapolis, Ind, June 4.-Once
more Governor Marshall has shown his
teeth, and this time the county clerks
and sheriffs are about to feel his bite.
1t is safe to say that Governor Mar
shall has been "cussed" more times in
Indiana since yesterday than almost
any other man, but it is not the people
at large that are doing it 1t is the
county officials.
County officials Mad.
The governors announcement yester-
day that he will ask the public account
| ing board to serve notice on the clerks
and sheriffs that they must not continue
to pocket the fees that they are now
receiving under the fee laws that were
passed by the legislature of 1907 and
| passed over Governor Hanly's vetoes
/ In 1909 Will throw these officials into
seven kinds Of conniption fits. They
! worked hard TO have those two laws
passed. and they will not see them
/ knocked out without fight.
HRnIy Vetoed Bill.
It will be remembered that at the
session of the Legislature in 1907 bill
was passed known as the in and out
fee law for the sheriffs. It was pointed
out at the time that 1T made no change
in the existing laws the subject Of
fees except that it allowed the sheriff
25 cents for locking prisoner in jail
and 25 cents for releasing him from
Jail at the expiration of his sentence
| But when Governor Hanly looked at the
bill he declared his belief that it was
unconstitutional and for that reason
he vetoed it. But the bill was passed
so late in the session that Governor
Hanly could not act upon 1t before the
close of the session. The bill laid over
and was on the governors desk at the
close And it was after that that the
bill was vetoed.
Bill Passed Over Veto.
The constitution says that a bill We
toed by the governor after the close
of a session of the legislature must be
reported back with the veto to the next
session of the Legislature. In this in
stance the in and out fee bill was re
ported back with the veto at the 1909
session, and that body passed the bill
| over the governors veto.
Affects Clerks Fee Bill.
The same was true Of the clerks fee
bill. 1t was passed in 1907, also. and
1t is since been discovered that the bill
was not what It was said to be at the
] time When the county clerks were
they and their lobbyists declare that
the new bill merely gave the county
clerks the fees that are paid in fol-
transcripts which they might make
2 These fees were to be retained by the
: clerks under the new law, they said
and that was the only change made ir
? the existing law
The "NigEer' in the Bill.
But Governor Hanly vetoed 1t also
= and the vetoed bill was reported back L
- the Legislature at the 1909 session
9 where 1t. like the sheriffs in and out fe'
! bill was passed over the veto Will,
the bill was up for passage over tn,
+ veto the Niger in it was discovered
+ 1t was found that the bill gave to TIN
:, county clerks between forty and fift,
|, different fees and that it was not con
: fined to the transcript fees. Practi
= caly every fee that had been colleete,
by the county clerks and turned int
the county treasury under the old Law
was turned into the pockets of tn
= county clerks by the new one.
Governor Marshall was opposed t
the two bills but he could not do any
thing They had been vetoed once an
: the legislature had right to pass Their
u over the veto. which it did. He sal
there was nothing more for the gov
- ernor to do.
l. Discovers Opening.
y But now he proposes to do some
n thing. He says that the bills shout
/ have been reported back to the legisia
y ture at the special session held las
September instead of waiting until tn
~ regular session in January. The spe
O. cial session was the next session afte
ID the one at which they were original
passed. he SAYS and when the bills wer
Id not reported back 10 that special sessio
they lost all of their right to be re
ported back at all, and the VITO stand
1r For this reason he will ask the publ
J. accounting board TO notify all clerk
r and shenffs to cease pouring the f
is money into their pockets and turn
"a into the county treasury instead. 1t
expected. Of course. that the board wi