The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-03-03
.K|RKMAn FIGHTS
THE SUNDAY BALL
BILL N SENATE
Asked to Suspend the Rules So
That the Question Could Be
Fought Out on the Floor at
Once.
VOTE ON THE MEASURE
TO BE TAKEN MONDAY
In the House Today Liberal
Democrats Tried to Punish
Senator McCarty Because
He Fought Repeal.
Palladium Bureau,
Indianapolis, March 3,

Senator Kane moved to suspend the
rules in the senate today and advance
the Sunday base ball bill to engross.
ment. Strange opposed and made a
bitter speech against the bill Kirk.
man, who has led the fight against
the bill voted to suspend the rules
and advance the bill SO it could be
fought out on the flood without a
waste of time. He will vote against
the bill on its passage. Fleming op.
posed the suspension of the rules and
voted against it. The bill will be
called for passage some time tomor.
row. The senate passed the Kistler
bill making it unlawful to tap a water
or gas main without authority The
governor has signed the bill regulat.
ing the construction and maintain.
ance of tenement and apartment build
ings.
To Punish Mccarty.
The liberal democrats in the house
today attempted to punish Senator
McCarty. democrat, because he voted
against the Tomlinson bill. When his
bill for the medical inspection OF
school children came to the house,
Garrard, democratic leader, moved to
Indefinitely postpone it. In debate
which followed Talbot, republican,
charged the democrats with trying to
punish McCarty. The republicans and
the temperance democrats voted to.
gether and the effort to kill the bill
failed. The vote was 81 to kill and
so to save.the bill.
The house passed the senate bills
to empower councils in cities of the
third and fourth class to appoint park
boards and to require councils in
cities Of the fifth class to advertise
for bids on gas. water and electric
contracts: also the bill to enable the
State Normal school to sell the athle
tic field.
In the senate. Senator Beal moved
to reconsider the action of the vote
passing the Evansville sixty cent gas
bill. This will be taken up again to
morrow. He says he finds that gas
cannot be made and sold at profit al
sixty cents in a city the size of Evans
vile.
The Fate Of Many Bills.
The house killed the Wood senate
bill to enable fraternal insurance as
sociations to do general old line insur
ance business and advanced to en-
grossment bills to elect town trustees
and marshals in incorporated towns;
to require one member of the alumni
on the Purdue board of trustees. ant
to require shopkeepers who sell liquor
in bottles to take out a city license
This is intended to reach grocers wht
sell beer to families for home use
| The house also engrossed the Wicke,
bill to enable municipalities to joir
in the formation of sanitary district
This is for the benefit Of Hammond
Gary and adjacent towns. The bill t
reduce the Indianapolis council from
ltwenty-One to eleven members, wa.
sent to third reading.
Kills Library Bill.
The house killed the bill to Great.
state library commission to hav,
charge Of state library and TAX,
oyer the library school, conducted b.
private parties in this city. It I'D
vanced to engrossment the bill to re
peal the county clerks transcript fe,
law and bill to permit the sale o
near beer in dry territory.