The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-02-17
SENATE REFUSES To GIVE
GOVERNOR $4,000 MANSION
Bill Introduced in Legislature Providing for Jury Trials
in Injunction Cases Another Would Put
Lien on Farmers Thrashed Grain.

the request of threshermen through
out the state who declare that they
are frequently swindled out of their
pay for threshing grain on farms
The bill introduced by Senator Nc
Cullough to create a firemen's pension
fund in cities of the second and third
classes is patterned somewhat after
the law that maintains such a fund
in this city. 1t provides for a small
tax levy leach year on the property in
the city and the money raised by such
levy goes into a pension fund When
a member of the fire department dies
or is killed his family Is paid a pension
of an amount that will have to be fixed
in the bill. In this city a widow re-
ceives $500 and $40 month pension,
and each child under the age of 16
years receives IS a month There was
case in this city two weeks ago in
which q fast passenger train struck
hook and ladder truck and killed the
driver. He left a widow and eight
children. seven of them being under
16 years of age. From the fremen's
pension fund the family received $500
and the widow receives $50 month
and each child Sc a month until he
of a fund that the Mccullough bill
proposes for cities of the second and
third class.
To Purify Elections.
A bill aimed to prevent the use of
commercial influence in elections was
introduced in the house yesterday 1t
declares invalid any contract made
| contingent upon the result of any cleo
ton. For instance. If Smith goes to
Jones' manufacturer and gives him
| a large order for goods with the agree
ment that if Brown is elected presi-
dent the order shall be allied and If
| Brown is not elected president the or
der shall be Cancelled such contract
would be invalid. And it would make
it unlawful for any employer to tell
an employe that in case a certain man
is elected to office the factory will
run and if he is defeated 1t will close
1t is a democratic measure and is di-
rected. they say. at conditions that
have existed in presidential campaigns
during the last few years
The house education committee has
reported favorably a bill to fix the
salaries of the county superintendent
of schools throughout the state Among
others. these salaries are fixed in this
bill
Allen county Raised from SLAP tc
81, 900.
J Huntington county-Ralsed from ST..
loS to $1,000
Lake county-Raised from s1,sss t,
$1,000.
Laporte county Raised from 81, Al
t to $1,000
The bin provides also for clerk hir,
for the county superintendent as fol
lows:
Counties having 100 teachers or less
none; 100 to 1876 teachers, $3.50; 1875 t,
so teachers, $225; $50 to rs teachers
$500; IT'S or over. $3.50. The bill is nov
ready to be pushed through the house
| The salary of the county superintend
ent in every county in the state il
increased under this bill
Involves Labor and Trusts
t The labor committee in the hous
has recommended for passage a bill
/ that viii meet with a good deal o
$ opposition. 1t is a bill to exempt la
4 Dor organizations and organizations o
: farmers and horticulturists from tn
e provisions Of the antitrust law. TIL
: bill, it is declared. by several attor
S neys who have examined it. would xii
g the entire antitrust law by making
a it Unconstitutional They say that tn
I law amended in this way would b
class legislation and that the court
would declare it bad
s There is great need for an anti-trus
: law in this state. and under the presen
: law, which was enacted two year
T ago, several important actions hav
d been begun. this new Bill will hav
8 opposition from the people who d
t not want the law interfered with. !