The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-01-23
BILL TO GET
A HEARING
THIS WEEK
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exactly like the Proctor bill, shall be
held back until the senate bill is passed
by both branches.
According to the present arrange.
ment the Proctor bill will come up for
second reading in the senate this after
noon. The house bill will remain on
the speakers desk The Proctorsbili
will be handed down for third reading
and passage either tomorrow or Wed
nesday. A motion may be made to have
the bill made a special order of bust
ness for some day during the week,
but Senator Proctor is DESTROYS OF hav-
ing 1t passed tomorrow IL possible, to
get out or the way. He says that each
side will be allowed two hours for dis
cussion Of the sbill
Senator Tilden, of Marion, Putnam,
and Morgan counties, and Senator Nc
Carly. of Clinton county. Democrats.
will vote with the Republicans against
the passage of the bill. Senator Durre.
of Evansville, will vote for the bill,
although he is a Republican. Senator
Hibberd, of St Joseph county, also a
Republican. will. it is believed vote for
the passage of the bill. although he has
not made any statement on the sub
ject.
1t is the intention to have the bill
reach the house either Wednesday or
Thursday. 1t will be referred to the
committee on public morals OF which
Representative Seidensticker rs CHAIR
man, and 1t will soon be reported for
passage. 1t is likely that the report
for passage viii be signed by only the
Democratic members of the committee.
as was the report for the passage of
the Keeney bill which was made last
Friday. 1t is not likely that the bill
will pass the house until a week from
today. and it will, in all probability, be
signed by the governor some time dur
ing the week.
The Democrats in the house are
claiming the votes of Representatives
Crieger. of Laporte and Porter; Wider
of Elkhart: Cirimmer and vanHorne, of
Lake. and Clark and Ross, of ST. Joseph.
Republicans, for the passage of the bill
They concede that Representatives
Merriman, Clore and Higgins Democrats,
will stand with the Republicans against
the bill and in favor of sustaining the
county unit. If the Democrats gain
six Republicans and lose three Demo-
Gratis there will be sixty-three votes for
the bill. and thirty-seven against It,
If the Democrats in the senate lose TIL
den and McCarty and gain Durre and
Hibberd there will be thirty votes for
the passage of the bill and twenty
against it. The bill is certain of pass
age in both houses
Two other platform measures will be
considered during the week in addition
to the local option bill. Senator Proc
tor, Democratic caucus chairman in the
ha w 90
Demorati senators for tomorrow to dis
uss the primary election and voters
registration bills now before the upper
house. The question as to whether
the Democrats 81 the senate shall line
up solidly for the Fleming -Seidenstick-
err saloon regulation bill also will be
threshed out
Two registration bills are before the
Senate, the Clark bill and the Harlan
bill. 1t is likely that the Clark bill will
be made the caucus measure The
primary election bills nave noe yet been
reported out of committees. but they
will probably come out this week
A hard fight is expected in the senate
against the passage of the Shively re-
call bill. now out of committee The
bill has been amended so as to take
out most of the sting.
1t is possible that there may be a
divided report the Proctor to pre-
vent corporations to water their stock
issues Corporations are fighting the
bill, and are making desperate effort
to have it smothered in committee.
Several more bills in line with the
Democratic platform declarations and
the recommendations in Governor Mar
shalPs message were introduced last
week, including bills for better SANTA
tion of workshops, employers liability.