The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-12
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the bill, it will be made then. No
amendment to the Spencer bill will be
made by the committee.
AS soon as the next Democratic SEN
ate caucus has passed on the bill 1t will
be put through the Senate purely as a
. party measure. although 1t Is expected
that It will receive a unanimous vote.
just as the Spencer bill did when 1t
passed the House
Thus. it looks like the end of the pub
lie utilities scrap is in sight. The COM
mittee on cities and towns will hold
public meeting at o'clock this after
non to give the interurban men
chance to be heard. They are insisting
that the interurbans should not be
placed under the jurisdiction of the
public service commission but ,jhS.,
they ought to be given over to this rail-
road commission. the same as the steam
roads They say they are wil1inp FOR
sai e to BE- eEtA.d public
service commission but not interhrbans.
1t is not thought. however. that the
hearing this Afternoon will avail the
interurban anything, for they them
selves expect the Spencer bill to be
put through about as 1T stands now.
The caucus also took definite action
toward determining whether the state
shall hold a constitutional convention.
1t was decided that the law under
which the lawyers amendment to the
constitution has been pending for sew
eral years shall be repealed at once,
and a new bill, bearing the name of
Senator Stotsenburg shall be introduced
and passed submitting to the vote OF
the people at the next general election
the question of whether the state shall
hill rcft frx, he
purpose of framing an entirely new
constitution. If the majority of the
people vote in favor of holding the
| convention it will consist of $50 dele
gates, elected as the one hundred rep
resentatives and fifty senators are now
elected, and the convention will be call
ed for November 1915. 1t would b.
limited to four months session.
The administration primary bill wa.
introduced in the House yesterday aft
ernoon by Representative Fleming. I
! is not what was expected. 1t provide
for a presidential preference vote b.
the entire state. State nomination
4 would be made by state convention
! made up of delegates elected from eacl
county 1t provides for all nomina
= tions below the state ticket to be nom
mated at direct primaries unless 10 pc
cent of the voters of a county. city
town or township file petition 70
nominations by convention. In tina
case delegates would be elected a
- primaries. which would be safeguards
by law as elections now are safeguard
ed. Fleming says the bill meets wit
the approval of a large number of Rep
= resentatives The Democratic state or
ganization has been in favor of sys
tenn of nominations by conventions eS
cept where the voters petitioned fo
III direct primary nominations.
Representative Carter introduced
bill to abolish the present state burea
of inspection and create a new burea
of labor to do the same work This
a ripper BILL because it would ri
this bureau wide open, and make wa
for an entire new set of officials
\ take charge.
FL A bill has been introduced in Hou:
II for the appointment of commission
B Investigate the best method of appo
tioning school funds in the state al
d report to the Governor before the ne.