The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-01-27
Bill Amending Measure to
Town and Township OPP
tion, Having Passed SEN
ate Is Up to Governor.
DIRE THREATS WERE
MADE BY MINORITY
Brewers Were Damned; Dit
to the Anti-saloon League
and There Were Laughter
and Wailing.
tPaliadium Specially

tPalladium Specially
Indianapolis. Jan. 27.--All that now
remains te-remove the county unit II
the signature of Governor Marshall
to the Proctor-Keeney bill which pass
ed the house late Thursday evening
by vote of SO to 80. or one more
than the regular Democratic major
ity. The governor received the bill
today. There was one absentee. 10
seph Cravens. floor leader or the Dem.
ocrats, who halls from dry county.
Representatives Clore. Higgins ana
Merriman, Democrats. voted to re-
tain the county unit. Representatives
Crieger. Grimmer. Van Horne and WI
der. Republicans. voted with the
Democrats to change the unit.
The vote came at six o'clock after
three hours of debate, which although
not any more active upon general re-
suits than the senate debate of Tues
day, was more peppery and sensation-
al. The brewers were damned: ditto
the Anti-Saloon league. Both were
defended. The Republican party was
referred to az thing Of ancient hfs-
tory because OF Its fathering the
county unit. and the Democratic party
was prematurely killed on ana bur
led beneath the weeping willows be-
cause It was upon the verge Of repeal.
ing the county unit. The alabaster
brows Of both parties were branded
with the stamp Of shame. Mythology
was quoted. Shakespeare invoked.
the Bible lugged Ia, God thanked and
the devil congratulated The p-e-e-
pull were called upon to witness,
men wished they had never lived to
see the awful day, the farmer was in.
suited. the poor boy was saved. jails
were filed. widows created and per-
sonal liberty triumphed. Hanly was
praised and Marshall tied to q stake.
Elkhart county divided It's vote and
was correctly represented either way.
Speaker Veneman was guyed.
Air Sawed With Arms.
The air was sawed by frantic arms
and rasped by excited voices, that
We're alternately tuned for. the bene.
At Of the dog under the desk and the
lady on the monument Election re-
turns analyzed. blind tigers crushed
under falling wallis or court houses,
saloons grew up like gimpson weeds
in the hog lot. the nation was con-
signed to the deminition bowwOws
and the country was saved.
Out of the wreck and debris the sal
wage corps dug up the township ana
city option law saved by II votes.
with Joe Cravens twenty miles away.
1t was a fearful scene.
After the bill was called under tho
order Of special business, Representa-
tive Faris Of the Republicans. appear
ed on the horizon. no larger than 4
mans hand. Before the unsuspecting
bystanders could take to the cyclone
cellar however the air was full OF ny
ing missiles and there was no chance.
Following him Representative Esch-
bach, minority lefaler turned loose
another twister that apparently nm
ished the demolition.
sentative McKennan Of the classic VII
lage Of Garrett. arose. be-spectacled
and debonnaire, to exclaim Never
touched me" and he forthwith pro-
ceeded to repair the damage OF the
Republican tornado.
Cohee and Berry, Republicans, fol-
lowed. but they were as baImy spring
breezes compared with their more yo-
ciferous brothers. and It began to look
as though the affair was degeneratfng
into something stale and Improbable
when Rep. Troyer Of EIkhart struggled
to his full length to exclaim, "Esau
sold his birthright for mess OF pot
tage. but it was left to Indiana to sell
| its birthright for q full schooner" !"
which all must concedc to be very
short bargain under Cur present sys-
tenn Of weights and measures. How
ever, the speaker passed rapidly on
through the corridors and cafacomhs
OF history until he reached the Ger
man alliance OF 1910 which sent out
10000 letters in Indiana urging Demo
cratic victory, 6.000 Of which went into
lvanderburg county. Now look at the
result" shouted Troyer as he pointed
to Speaker Veneman- Everybody had
q look while the Speaker did his best
to make Il appear to the scrutinixing
crowd that the German Alliance had
great discernment ana artistic temper
ament. Troyer ffnished ~ conduct
Ing 4 wholesale funeral Of III the
Democratic lares and penateS IT
which grave the Republican minority
appeared 70 be the only mournerS. .
the ribald Democrats LAUGHED.