The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-01-24
Senator Stotsenberg Intro
duces a Bill Today Provid-
ing State Institution for
Inebriates.
RUSH AND SHELBY
GRANTED DIVORCE
Each to Have Own Circuit
Court Now.-State Senate
Puts in Busy Day, Acting
on Many Bills.
National News Association)

(Nationa1 News Association)
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. Ex-senator
Stotsenberg today introduced bill for
the establishment of an inebriate hos
pital to be supported by setting aside
$25 from each liquor license fee paid
in the state. A provision Of the meas
ure empowers the governor to ap-
point a commission of five men to de-
termine where and how the hospital
shall be esta ablished. The bill was re-
ferred to the committee on public
health and a favorable report is soon
expected.
BY suspending the rules the house
of representative today passed Sena-
tor Yarling's bill dividing Shelby and
Rush counties into separate judicial
districts and abolishing the Marion
Shelby superior court. The bill will
go to the governor as soon as it is en-
crossed and becomes a law when he
attaches his signature. He must then
appoint a judge for the Rush county
circuit.
A Legal Bill Passed.
The only other bill passed by the
house today was one introduced by
Rep. Storen for the purpose of remov-
ing hindrances that often block the ad-
p @
ministration Of justice in criminal
cases under the present laws. 1t per-
mits indictments to be amended and
gives the state the right to take de-
positions in criminal cases. 1t also
provides that if witness has died or
cannot be located in the interim be-
tween a first and second trial the
stenographer's notes Of the evidence
he gave in the first trial can be intro
duced as evidence in the second trial.
Two house measures were put out
of their misery today by the adoption
of committee reports recommending
their indefinite postponement. One
was the Ault bill requiring dental in
spection Of dependant children, and
the other the Van Horn bill allowing
county councilmen extra pay for at
tending special sessions.
The senate mill began it's real grind
ing today and before the session clos
ed at 1920 p. m. eighteen new bills
had been introduced, seven old bills
passed. twenty-one reported out of
committee and eleven advanced to
second reading. Aside from the. reg
ular grind the session proved interest
ing in a few of the fights for the pass
age OF senate bill No. 6S, which re-
moves the legal disabilities of mar
ried women and defines the property
rights of their husbands.
Mistake in the Count
The bill as introduced by Senator
Stotsenberg provides that married
women shall have clear and unim-
peded right OF contract and may dis
pose of their own properties as they
see fit without the consent of their
husbands. The ballot as first an
nounced showed 26 votes for the
measure and it was declared passed.
Later the clerk declared a mistake
had been made and only 25 votes had
been cast for the bill. This caused it
to fail of passage but leaves it open
to another vote.
The Gearing bill lengthening the
term Of Judge Rockford of Marion
county, passed without discussion as
did Sullivans forestry bill. Van AUX.
ems bill providing for the increased
pay of jurymen to $3.50 per day was
passed and Gavitt's bill making Gary
a second class city likewise received
favorable action. Van Uken's bill pro.
viding that divorce cases be not tried
until sixty days after the filing of suit
was passed without dissent
\ bill providing against the drink
ing of intoxicants on railroad or trac.
ton cars passed by a vote of SO to Q