The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-01-19
CHARGES COSTuER
Governor Proposes Amendment to
Accounting Law Relieving Attor-
ney General of Prosecutions
of Defaulters

Indianapolis. Jan. 14.-That there
will be legislative reapportionment
by the present general assembly is
fixed but Just what it will be is still
eonjeetural. In neither house have
there been any surface indications
that a reapportionment movement
has assumed tangible form but Chas
Lieb. chairman of the house commit
tee. of Rockport, said today that
preparations were being made for the
drafting of a reapportioning bill and
that one would probably be introduce
ed soon. Mr.. Lieb was notable, he
said to say what provisions would
be placed In the bill, but said that ex-
perts who knew the reappOrtionment
game are at work on data for draft
ing such a measure, and would soon
be ready te report.
There is not enough reapportion-
ment gossip to show which way the
wind will be blowing when the bill
comes In. There seems to be little
doubt but that things will be doing
rs far as the First congressional dis
trict Is concerned, where the interest
seems to be centering. Senator Carl
ton, of Evansville, had himself made
chairman of the senate committee or
congressional reapportionment and
heads the legislative apportionment
committee In the house.
Thirteenth District May Be Changed.
1t is not denied that the Democrats
are planning TO rearrange things In
the First district so as to make that
territory Democratic regularly, if it
can be brought about. The Third dis
trict. on the east, Is to be sliced off.
If it can be done without raising too
much of kick among the Third dis
trict men and attached to the First,
thus taking over to the first some of
the solid Democratic precincts of the
insurplountable Third.
An assault will probably be made
on the Tenth district. also, slicing off
some of the south end and forming
a combination with counties from the
Ninth, in an effort to insure a Demo-
cratic congressman from that terri
tory without so much hard work as
has attended the eletion of a Demo
erat In the Ninth district in the last
two elections. There is no hopes for
the Democrats to control the Tenth
as long as it Is laid out as it is, but
with the north end of it attached to
some of the present Thirteenth dis
trict counties It is held that there is
more of a chance for Democratic vic
tory once In a while.
Institutions Face Disappointment.
Members of the house ways and
means committee and Of the senate
finance committee are preparing to liz
ten to hard luck tales for the mex,
four weeks when they begin hearings
on the appropriation bills to be IN
troduced early from the superinten,
dents of the various states intuition:
where inmates are fed at the expense
Of the state, and the cost Of feeding
Is to be the burden Of the dolefu
narratives.
While the visiting committee, which
began its work In November has no
made public the result of its visits, j
is expected that 1T will not recon
mend as much maintenance as the su
perintendents of the institutions hav,
asked for. Hence the expectation O
the doleful tales.
The increased cost of foodstuff
was the burden of the pleas made b,
the institution officials when the com
mittee was on its visits. One of then
who feeds daily an average popula
ton of between 1900 and 1900 ha
prepared for consideration by til
committees comparative list Of foo
stuff cost for the last four years, an
will use it as lever to try to pry tn
committee members from off the stat
treasury lid. The increased food cos
has been a problem to this superir
tendent and unless his maintenance
is increased will be more Of prof.
lem, he declares
Heavy Food stufs Cost Increases.
In making his table of comparison
he computed the increase in precer
Of foodstuff for the fiscal year :
1906 and that of<1910. In his En-
table he shows the following increase
in percentage; Beef, 48 percent
pork loins, 23.5 percent; hams, 20 p'
cent; hams, g percent; lard, GIG p'
cent; butterine, 60 percent; eggs, 8
percent; potatoes, % percent; flor
25.9 percent; meal, 1915 percen
beans, 80 percent; hominy, 22.9 pc
cent; cheese, 11-3 percent; milk, IL