The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-02-02

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price of either is 81. mailed on receipt
of price in plain sealed package, and
both are sold under the guarantee. Or
rine is sold by A. G. Luken & Co.,
| Richmond. Ind
| time Some enterprising statistician
figured out how much it costs to run
the house day and then calculated
the value of the time spent on this
| bill, and he found it was S1Oo The
bill finally was advanced to engross-
ment and will come up for passage
in another day Or two.
| Effects Insurance Agents.
Under the present law agents for
| life insurance companies organized
under the laws of the state Of Indiana
are not required to take out state Ii
| censes. Agents for foreign insurance
companies must be licensed Yester-
day the senate passed bill introduce
| ed by Senator Kimmell of Kendall
vile requiring all agents for Indiana
companies to be licensed and register
ed by the state auditor. The license
fee will be one dollar. and any agent
| that solicits life insurance without a
| license will be liable to heavy fine.
Pluto Was Rescued.
Pluto was saved yesterday by the
house. when Senator Talbott's bill was
passed. This bill provides a penalty
for any person who drills into vein
of natural mineral water and wastes
the water. Talbot says some per-
sons are drilling into the springs at
French Lick from which Tom Taggart
gets his Pluto water and that they
are about to put Pluto out of business.
Hence this bill
Prize Bill Of All.
The prize bill of all made it's ap-
pearance in the Hobbies of the house
yesterday afternoon but it has not
yet been introduced. It places a boun-
ty on rats. 1t provides that bounty
of one cent shall be paid by the town
ship for each rat killed. In order to
get the one cent the rat killer is re-
quired to take the rats tail to the
township trustee and make an affida-
Wit that the rat was killed in the town
| ship. Then he can get his cent. 1t
| is cinch that the members will have
fun with that bill when it comes up
for discussion
Laid Aside Politics.
The republicans laid aside politics
yesterday, when the house resolution,
prepared by the democrats was pre-
sented for adoption calling for an in
vestgation of the needs of the state
offices during the next two years
The resolution is in line with the
recommendation made by Governor
Marshall. He said he thought the leg
islature ought to appoint a commits
sion to go through the state offices
and ascertain just what work is done,
how Il is done. how much help is re-
qutred to do the work and how much
the help ought to be paid He said
he believed there were dozens OF use
| less deputies and clerks and other as
sistants in the state offices who
| could be dropped and the expenses
thus reduced without injury to the SER
vice and the result was a resolution
| offered in the house several days ago
| looking to that end,
Expected Hot Fight.
1t was expected that there would
be a red hot fight over it when the
| resolution came on for adoption. But
1t did not come. Representative Grei-
ger, Of Laporte county. offered an
amendment to the effect that the COM
| mission should go as far back as 1891
in making it's investigation of the ex-
penses of the state offices, the pur-
pose being to show that the demo-
Gratis. when they had the offices,
spent as much or more money than
the republicans are now spending.
But this amendment was voted down
by strict party vote. Then the reso-
| luton was adopted by unanimous
vote. every republican and every DEM
| ocrat voting for it. The resolution
now goes to the house. and it is un-
| derstood that the republicans in that
body will also put it through
Flood of Petitions.
For a while in the senate yester day
afternoon there was a flood of petit
lions and it looked like everybody in
| the state wished the county local law
repe aled and the Sunday base ball bill
enacted. Senator Orndorf presented
| petition from $1,000 members OF
German societies throughout the state
asking the repeal of the county option
| law. A big petition of the same kind
| came through Senator Mcdowell from
Vincennes. and there were several
others. Then there was petition
from the employees of the Chandler &
Taylor company, big boiler works
in this city. asking for the passage
OF the Sunday base ball law. Senator
Proctor, of Elkhart county. offered
petition from the Elkhart Central La
Dor Union protesting against the ap-
pointment Of William f. Blakely as