The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-03-11
Rowdy House Members In
vaded State Senate and
Start Rough House"
REP. JUDKINS is HAZED
Rep. Carter Takes Posses
sion of Chair of the Lieu
tenant Governor.
palladium SpeciaD


INDIANAPOLIS, March 1.-THE
SiXty-eighth General Assembly passed
into history at 30 o'clock this morn
ing, when the Senate adjourned. The
House adjourned at lis O'Clock. The
Senate transacted business up to l
o'clock, although the House quit work
early in the evening and spent the
later hours in roistering while await
ing the report of the conferees on
specific appropriations.
The hands of the clocks in the
House and Senate chambers and in the
Governors office were turned back
nearly four hours in order to permit
the conferees on the specific appropri-
ations measure to complete their work.
Under the law neither branch could be
in session after midnight.
Shortly after 10 o'clock Lieutenant
Governor O'Neil appointed a commit
tee consisting of Senators Netterville,
Fleming and Curtis to call on Cover
nor Ralston to ascertain whether he
had any further messages to transmit.
At 120 o'clock the committee returned
bringing the message that the Cover
nor had no further messages, where
upon sine die adjournment was taken.
Another committee, Senator Shively
and Senator Van Auken, was appointed
to wait on the House to ascertain if
there were any further business to
transact from that branch. There was
none.
Preceding the adjournment Lieuten-
ant Governor O'Neil announced the
appointment of Senator Will R. Wood,
| Republican, and Senator E. B. Stot-
senburg, Democrat, as representatives
of the upper branch of the General
Assembly to represent Indiana at the
Panama-Pacifc Exposition in 1915.
Brief speeches were made by both
members, in which they thanked the
presiding officer for his courtesy and
/ for the honor of representing the state
at the exposition.
Farewell speeches by retiring mem
! bers of the Senate were features of
| the closing hours. Senators Stotsen'
| burg and kistler both declared that
they never expected again to be mem,
| bers of legislative body, and Senator
Rats, one of the retiring Republican
members, declared that, he, too, did
not expect ever again to address the
| senators.
kistler Evens UP.
Senator Kistler said that, with the
exception of one newspaper, he had
been treated fairly by the press ano
he had no complaint to make except
in one instance. He referred to the
indianapolis News.
Before adjournment all of the EN-
ployes of the Senate were rem embereC
with gifts. These ranged from $50 tc
S25. the porters in the cloak rooms
each receiving $40.
The House adjourned without any
swan songs being sung, the adjourn
ment following imm mediately upon con
currence in the appropriations report
The most disgracefu scene ever
staged in the Legislative halls of the
state, took place in the Senate cham
Der at o'clock last night when 6
crowd of thirty men entered the cham
Der preceding the calling of the nigh
session, and, aided by members from
the House of Representatives proceed
ed to destroy everything they coulC
seize. Many valuable papers left or
the desks of the senators were strewr
over the floor on the rostrum of the
presiding officer. A similar scene hat