The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-01-05
Lieutenant Governor Hall
Had His List All Prepared
Senator Commons of
Wayne Quite Lucky.
GOVERNORS MESSAGE
Was Read to Members OF
Both Houses-It Was a
Clear Cut Document and
Its Features Important.
tAmerican News Service,

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Indianapolis, Jan. with the Dem
ocratic forces strongly in control tho
sixty-seventh Indiana general assem-
bly, started it's sessions shortly after
10 o'clock this morning. 1t was an
nounced in both branches that no
time would be lost in getting down to
the work on the important legislation
which confronts them. Sessions OF
both houses will likely be held FRI
day. In the house Secretary Of State
Ellingham made quick jdo Of en-
gineering the formalities which re-
suited in the election OF Albert j.
Veneman of Evansville, as speaker
over Jesse Eschbach of Warsaw by
a strict party vote, sixty to forty. The
entire caucus program was carried.
out. Veneman made short speech
praising Governor Marshall Veneman
was not prepared today to make COM
mittee announcements, but will do SO
Monday. Lieutenant Governor Hall
welded the gavel in the senate. Tho
election of senate officers was carried
out according to the Democratic eau
Morris of the Indiana supreme court
had administered the oaths to the new
members.
At 1905 p. m. both branches OF the
legislature met in the lower house and
heard the governor read his message.
Senate Committees.
Lieutenant Governor Hall. shortly
after the Indiana senate convened on
Thursday morning announced his ap
pointments. To Walter S. Commons,
who jointly represents Union< and
Wayne counties in the senate. fell sev.
eral important committee assign.
ments. The following are the COM
mittees on which he will serve dur
ing the session: Congressional appor.
tionment, joint committee on public
buildings. rivers and waters, rights
and privileges, public Libraries. phrase
ology of bills, and unfinished business.
The chairmen of the more important
committees of the senate are:
Finance, Senator Fleming; judic-
iary A. Senator Royce; judiciary B.
Senator Kistler: education, Senator
Curtiss; corporations, Senator Beall;
| roads. Senator Long; benevolent insti-
tutions, Senator Clark; public morals.
Senator Stotsenberg; county and
township affairs. Senator McCarty;
insurance, Senator Netterville; rail-
roads, Senator Fleming; mines and
mining. Senator Carleton; manufact-
uring Senator Sullivan; telephone and
telegraph, Senator Kistler: congress-
ional apportionment. Senator Carle-
ton; legislature apportionment, Sena-
tor CRUDE; cities and towns, Senator
Stotsenberg; labor, Senator Beall; re-
formatories. Senator Shiveley; re-
formation of criminal code, Senator
Clark: rights and franchises, Senator
Tilden; rules, Senator Trant
Announcement was made that the
| committee assignments in the lower
house would not be made before Mon.
day by Speaker Veneman Some OF
the most important features of the
governors message are the following:
Wort Of Warning.
BY way Of warning. let me suggest
that your constitutional immunity
from arrest does not mean that brib-
sHHti ~ uHpHTiS1G0. Honesty
is not only the best policy for a leg
islator, it is al essential qualification
for the discharge of public duty. You
can render the state no greater SER
vice than to safely incarcerate
within prison walls any man who
makes an illegal proposal to you. Tell
me who does it ard I will assume the
responsibility of furnishing the felon.
Wants Registration Law.
Our state constitution permits q
male person II years of age and up
wards who has resided in the state
six months. in the township sixty
days and the ward or precinct thirty
days. Immediately preceding an elec-
ton, and every male of foreign birth
Erecting these requirements who shall
lave resided In the United States one
year and declared his intention to be-
come citizen. to vote IL he shall
have been duly registered according
to law. Recent developments in In
diana have shown the justice OF this