The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-01-31
WEE LITTLE BILL
RAISES A RACKET
Just Had Ten Lines, but 1t
Mentions Corporations"
Hence the Uproar.
tl,alladium Specially

indianapolis. Jan. 31.--A little bill
OF ten lines. as II appears when print
cd has caused an awful upfoar In the
senate. and no man knowcth why-or
saith why. II he knows. II IL bill
introduced by Senator Proctor and IL
known a. senate bill No. 105. 1t 10
entitled "A bill for an act concerning
foreign corporations" and reads az
follows: :.
Section 1. BE II enacted by the gen.
eral assembly OF the state Of Indiana.
that no corporation organized in any
state shall have or exercise any pow.
or. authority or privilege in this state
which ID not possessed by corpora.
lions Of the same class organized In
this state. 49,
Section 2. No corporation shall
have or exercise any power, authority
or privilege In this state which II does
not have in the state In which it 10
incorporated. and such incorporation
II hereby expressly prohibited from
doing anything In this state which It
might lawfully do In the state Of its
incorporation.
When the bill came up for passage
thcre was no fuss over It and II slip
ped by with rs votes for It and II
against II. After 1t was passed the
lobby got busy and discovered key
fall Of dynamite In It. Friday Sena-
tor Brady made motion to reconsid.
or the vote that passed the bill. When
asked why he wanted 1t reconsidered.
0~usA Ap nr0Av s4lsoust kvnw un coiA
somebody asked him to make the mo
tton. Lobbyists ran around the state
house denouncing the bill. but when
asked In what particular the bill was
dangerous they replied by waving
their arms and talking In loud voice
about tho constitution and the origin
Of 81. Valentines day. The allega-
tion was frequently made that the bill
would. II II became a law. drive all
the foreign corporations out OF lndi-
ana. but when asked to specify why.
no one apparently knew.
Governor Appealed To.
The governor. at whose instigation
the bill II said to have been drawn
and introduced. was approached by
several and asked to have the bill
withdrawn. but even he could not as
certain just why the innocent little
bill should be 10 deadly. He assured
bic callers II there was anything In
the bill which was unjust to corpora
tions and deprived them of their
rights he would ask the bill be with
drawn. but the protesters did not
point out any such clause.
II do moi, know Of any dusky gentle
man In the cord wood" said Govern.
or Marshall In discussing the bill.
Foreign corporations do business In
Indiana by grace and favor and not by
right. Section one Of this bill simply
puts foreign corporations doing bust.
ness In Indiana on an equality with
domestic corporations OF similar
character. What is there wrong In
that? ! cannot see why we should dis.
eliminate against home corporations
Section two simply prevents a foreign
corporations from doing things in In.
diana that the charters do not give
them right TO In their own states,
and for which they were Incorporated.
What II there wrong in that? Why
should we make Indiana an asylum
for law breskers?"
Just what the program of the lobby
against the bill will be Is not clear
The motion TO reconsider the vote
was to have been q special order OF
business Monday at II q. m. but for
some reason II, went by default. II
10 not known whether the opponents
Of the bill became alarmed at their
own activity and decided to let the
bill 90 to the house and there try to
kill II or whether they will 90 after 1t
later In the senate. At any rate the
lobby 10 very agitated over II and IL
Organisms its forces to prevent. the
bill ever getting on the statute books.