The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-02
To KILL
TOML|ASON LIQUOR BILL
Democrats May Yet Concede $1,000 License = Mickey
Has Amendment for Proposed School Book
Law-Hard Shedding for Court Bills.
TINES BUREAU
AT STATE CAPITOL.

AT STATE CAPITOL.
Indianapolis Ind. March 2.-Sena-
tor Proctor, of Elkhart. and Senator
McCarty, of Frankfort, both democrats.
the latter a friend and the other an
enemy of county local option, came to-
gether in the senate late yesterday af-
ternoon, and If 1t had not been for SEN
ators stepping in and separating them
there would have been a fight The
senate had to adjourn to put an end
to the trouble and to prevent the Tom
linson bill from making progress.
McCarty is opposed to bill, and when
the democrats early in the afternoon
held a caucus he declined to take part
in it or to be bound by it.
Late in the afternoon when mo-
ton was made to adjourn because 1t
was feared by the republicans that the
Tomlinson bill was to come up McCarty
voted with the republicans in favor of
adjournment.
This angered Proctor and he left his
seat and walked over to the desk of
Senator McCarty. The latter arose from
his seat and dropped his hand be-
hind him while Senator Proctor leaned
toward him talking vehemently but in
a low tone.
Others Interfere.
Senator Harlan and.othersggots around
them and between them and Senator
McCarty sat down. So on, however,
they were at it again, and this time
Senator Wood, who was presiding, saw
what was going on and ordered the
senators to be seated McCarty and
Proctor remained standing and Sena-
tor Wood exclaimed:
L mean those two senators standing
up. If they do not take their seats I
will order the doorkeeper to seat
them"
At that a crowd surged about the
two men and Proctor walked away re-
marking: II have the word of three
senators that McCarty called me g
d fool, and told him that I would
wait until the senate adjourned and
| then pound the stuning out Of him"
! In the meantime McCarty was having
| a wordy argument with Senator Elem
/ ing, but the latter did not make any
attempt to retaliate with blows. He
appeared to have the better Of the ar
| gument, whatever, it was, and walk C
away laughing. Senator McCarty de
clared he did not speak of Senator
Proctor In the terms the Elkhart sen
ator said he did.
All right" said Senator Proctor. Il
McCarty did not say it the incident i
closed.
Horse Play All Day.
But there was fiIibustering ant
horse play all day long over the Tom
linson bill It kept Senator Kirkmal
busy from morning till night headinI
of schemes OF the democrats to fore
the Tomlinson bill to the front. Tim
after time some democrat made a. mo
ton to suspend the rules and take u
a certain house bill Then Kirlzma
jumped in with an objection until tn
democrat would agree that that par
ticular bill and no other should be pre-
scented. There were dozens of littl
wranglese over these points ofsorder an
hours of time were consumed in tina
way. But Kirl1man finally won hi
fight and kept the Tom1inson bill frol
coming out. In doing so the republic
ans killed a lot of valuable time.
fact it is believed that this is one {
their plans for beating out the Ton
linson bill. They figure that If they ca
put it off from day to day and hour
hour until the appropriations bill is IL
; troduced so much time will be require
to thresh out that measure that no tin
will be left for the consideration of Il
Tomlinson bill and in that case it wou
die where it IS now. On the other haT
the democrats are doing everything