South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-02
Committee of Five Appointed
to Go Over the Situation.
Rep. Hagerty'S DFunkard
Bill is Killed in House.
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INDIANAPOLIS BUREAU

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Feb. p
The democratic members of the house
Monday night held q secret caucus to
discuss registration. All the bills that
have been introduced on the subject
including those that have been intro
duced seeking the repeal the present
registration law were brought before
the caucus for consideration. After a
discussion of the various bills a COM
mittee of five members was appointed
to go over the entire question of reg
istration of voters and draft a bill that
would meet with the ideas of the ma
jOrity of the democrats in the lower
house. This bill later Will be made
the subject for binding caucus action
il is understood.
on the committee were Fred L.
Feick, who has introduced a bill to re-
peal the registration law that now
stands on the statute books and who
was named as chairman of the spe-
cial committee, Reps. William G.
Deck of Martinsville, Alexander
Fulton of LagrO, William \. Nc
CullOugh of ROckpOrt and Thomas J.
Sare of Bloomington. The latter re-
signed from the committee and was
supplanted by the caucus chairman,
John r. Jones of Plymouth. with an
other representative believed to have
been James Dunmire of Elkhart
This special committee on invita-
ton of Rep. Feick is to meet at his
private room I'm the Denison hotel
either Tuesday or Wednesday night
of this week TO go over the entire
problem.
Kill Hagerty's Bill.
The house Monday afternoon killed
Rep. Hagerty's bill, which would have
sent a man over p years old con-
victed of intoXicatiOn three time with
in six months to the Indiana penal
farm for not more than one year and
a woman under like circumstances, to
TO the correctional department Of the
wOman's prison.
Sen. Van Auken viii introduce a
bill in the upper house probably to-
morrow providing for the removal of
Indiana university from Bloomington
to Lafayette, there to be combined
with Purdue university under the
name of the latter school.
The ways and means committee of
the house worked until late tonight
preparing the regular appropriation
bill following exactly the lines o. the
visitation committee report for intro
duction in the house Tuesday. Pub
lie hearings are to be arranged at
once Tor the SPECIFIC appropriation
bill and that will not be introduced
until after these hearings have been
held.
Are Against Bill.
A party Of attorneys, physicians and
businessmen of Gary, Ind, invaded
Indianapolis Monday determined to
defeat the proposed bill to make Gary
a city of the second class. Since the
measure has passed the senate their
hopes now center on the action of the
house.
Those fighting the measure declare
that only those interested in the in
crease of their salaries are anxious
that the bill pass.
An attempt TO canvass among the
members of the house committee con
sidering the bill Monday revealed the
fact that the majority are lined up
against the proposition. Because of
this, coupled with the strong Opposi-
ton evidenced by Gary citizens Mon
day, it is now generally believed the
bill will be defeated when brought to
an issue in the house.