The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-01-20
MRS LoUES pERERzGA
Many Important Bills introduced
Hon-e and s.ne wade New

shall receive as his salary $40 year
for each thousand inhabitants of the
county. This commissioner would have
entire charge of the preparing of jury
lists. He would select the names, ac-
cording to an elaborate set of rules,
which he would place in the box and
from these the county clerk would
draw the names of those who are to
serve on any panel. The bill provides
severe penalties for any person who
seeks to be appointed on a jury or any
jury commissioner that needs such a
request.
This jury bill has the backing of
many of the commercial bodies and
business organizations of the state,
which have seen the necessity for a re-
form in the jury system 1t is now not
unusual to see men placed on juries be-
cause they asked to be put on. This
practice would be stopped.
About a thousand retail merchants
from all over the state came to town
yesterday and swarmed on the floor of
the house and the senate after the
baIIoting on senator. They all wore
big blue badges, and at their head was
D. n. Foster, of Fort Wayne. 1t de-
veloped that they swooped down on the
Legislature to root for the passage of
bill that proposes to amend the garni-
shee law Under this bill a creditor
could have a writ of attachment is
sued for any of the causes now stated
in the statute and could hold ten per
cent of the debtors wages under the
attachment regardless of the exemp-
ton law. This bill also has been be-
| fore every session of the legislature for
Years but 1t never has made much
progress The Indiana Retail Mer-
i chants association is holding its annual
session here.
Yesterday afternoon nearly all of the
democratic senators and several of the
democratic members of the house got
together and held an mitigation meet
ling. Their indignation knew no bounds.
They declared that the republican ma
ljority in the senate is giving them the
worst of it in that it reports OUT of
committees republican bills, while dem
; ocratic bills are kept in the hands of
! the committee. They sputtered for a
while and then decided that there was
) no way to help it. That is about all
there will be to it.
A bill was introduced yesterday to
abolish the office of road supervisor and
create the Office of township road
superintendent who would have charge
of all the roads and road work in the
! township
One of the freak bills Of the session
: appeared yesterday II was by Sena-
e tor Royse. of Terre Haute. under the
T provisions of which a spite fence could
: be declared a nuisance. The freak part
d of it is that the fence would have TO
= be first proven a spite fence.
e If the bill introduced BY Senator
o lStotsenburg. yesterday. becomes a law.
g all county offices in all counties hav-
t ling more than 10000 population will
: be closed on Saturday afternoons in
e June July and August each year. All
r the offices in the state house have Sat
n urday half holidays during those
months under the present law, and in
some of the larger counties of the
state the same rule is observed. but
d t--s proposed law would make it ap-
: lply to nearly all the counties of the
g state.
n The house committee on election:
IS and the senate committee on elections
d. held a joint session last night and
% talked over the Lake county contes
u case. Nothing was done. however. al
lie the certified record Of testimony takei
IN in the case has not yet reached tn
joint committee.