The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-03-16

The auditor Is authorized to appoint
three building and loan inspectors for
this purpose, the salaries to be $4,000
q year. This will place the building
and loan business of the state on the
327 building and loan associations In
the state. with 10000 members and
assets aggregating s36,0O0,0G0, and yet
there has not been any law requiring
examination of the concerns. The law
also codifles all of the building and
loan laws Of the state. 1t is copied
after the Ohio law on the subject
BY q new law the state bureau of
inspection and the state labor COM
mission are thrown into one bureau
to be ci.lled the bureau OF inspection
and labor.
A bill was PASSED which gave the
auditor of state the right to appoint
eight state bank examiners and to dis
charge bank examiners at his pleas
ure.
The state statistician was author
lied by a new law to open branches
of the state free employment bureau
In cities of the second class. which
includes Fort Wayne, South Bend.
Terre Haute and Evansville.
He Is to appoint the superintendent
of the branches, but their salaries OF
$1,000 year are to be paid by the
county in which the branch is situated.
The agencies are not allowed to make
any charge for its services in en-
ployees or employment Another bill
requires private employment agencies
to pay an annual tax of $25 to the
state, through the state statistician.
Under the old law they were required
to paw a SIS fee only once.
Railroad Legislation.
The railroad commission got about
all the legislation 1t asked for at the
hands of the legislature. The legisla-
ton on railroads was the most i'm
portant ever enacted in the state.
One new law gives the railroad
commission power to order any steam
or interurban railroad to install a
block signal system of kind to be ap-
proved by the commission. This Is
regarded as the most important of all
of the railroad laws. The commission
favored this law because it wished to
prevent repetition of the disastrous
wrecks on the interurb>ns at Kings
land and Upton.
Another raw requires all railroads.
steam and interurban, to file with the
commission all of their rules for the
cars. 1t is the purpose Of the com
mission to seek to mako all of the
train rules in the state uniform.
Under another law no man can be
motorman on an interurban car un
less he has had at least one years ex
perience in some branch of the rail
road service. Another law gives In
terurbans the right to condemn land
and cut away timber where such tim
Der obstructs the view of tracks g.
curves. Another law regulates the
method Of stringing trolley and other
wires over interurban and steam
roads.
The commission Is given power tc
make freight rates within the state
on its own initiative. This is a power
it has never had. The new law also
removes the two-year limitation or
the life of an order issued by the rail
road commission. Heretofore when the
commission issued an order railroad
could start litigation to set 1t aside
and by delaying the trial In the courts
could run it past the two years time
and thus wear out the order.
A bill was passed requiring all rail
roads to use cabooses not less thar
"a feet in length. Another bill re
quires q switching crew to consist Of
not less than five men. A bill favored
by railroad employees and passed pro
vides that no claims can be sent out
side the state for collection when the
debtor is employed In Indiana by ar
interstate corporation.
The railroad men also had passed {
bill which prohibits any person from
q
the honesty Of any employee. This Il
known as the "anti-spotter bill"
There Is a new law which says tnaI
when an employee Of a corporation II
discharged the employer shall. on de
mand. give him a letter stating the
| true cause of such discharge.
Board Of Health Fares Well.
The state board Of health Jared well
at the hands of the legislature. II
got everything it asked for. even get
ting increased appropriations for Its
work in all departments. Here Is what
It received:
A law to require the sanitary con
/ struction of school houses.
A law to give counties power to or
der the rladical inspection OF school
children.
A law to require each county to ap
point a weights and measures inspect
or to test the scales and measures OF
every dealer In foodstuffs The sal
aries of the inspectors are paid by the
county, but the work Is done under
the direction of the food and drug de-
partment.
A law to require attention to the
eyes of newborn babies to prevent
blindness.
A law to require a label bearing the
date that food stuff Is placed In cold
storage and to prevent the sale oil
in
cold storage more than nine months.