The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-01-30

for the benefit of hremens pehsio"
fund.
TIMES BUREAU,
AT STATE CAPITAL.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Jan. 50.
Some of the members Of the
senate are likely to die of heart
failure before the end Of this week,
because, according to the program
laid out by the senate leaders, the
senate will determine this week
whether Indiana shall have a cons
titutional convention, state wide
prohibition, and woman's suffrage
All three of these bills will come
I'd for passage in the senate this
week. First of all viii be the bill
TO call a constitutional convention
which may be voted on today. I'm
mediately following. will come the
state wide prohibition bill and a
vote on this bill will likely be tax
en- Wednesday or not later than
Thursday. s,~.rs
yrban will come the woman's suffrage
hin 50 that any senator who is mot iald
ont nv the first two. Will have a chahee
~ show his staying qualities by voting
on the suffrage bill.
The fact is. a situation has arisen II
regard to these three measures eiiae -
causing the senate to pass the 9ufA
hocl to the house. When the house
,assad the prohibition bill last week
and sent it over to the senate IN
hurry. some of the house members sinl-
ed broadly over the fact that they mac
rozv mt it up to the senate The sen
ate proposes to get even by getting
right back at the house with woman
suffrage. 1t is thought. also tnat the
senate will make amendments 70 the
prohibition bill which will seriously
crinple it even if it is passed by the
senate and the senators are wondering
what the house viii do with such
transformed bill. if it comes back from
the senate There is large element
in each house that wants to Kill the
prohibition bill, but each wants the
other to be the executtoner- 1t mas peen
the plan for some time that the constl-
t,tiona1 convention bill should be con
stdered by the senate and voted on
ahead of the prohibition bill. because
the wet forces have figured that If the
constitutional convention bill should
bannen to be passed by the senate 1t
would serve as a stumbling block for
the prohibition bill which would~ ~come
along later. But the dry forces insist
that the senate take sQuare-toed vote
on both propositions.
Tremendous pressure is being brought
70 hear on the senator's by both sides to
This controversy Petitions for and
against the prohibition bill are pouring
in. fguratively by the wagon load
Senators who went to their homes over
Sunday report that they were besieged
all day long by people who sought TO
influence their vote on the prohibition
hin. For instance. Senator Smith of
Knox. representing LaPorte and Starke
counties. spent Sunday at home and he
was besieged all day by people who
came from all the country around. 1t
is reported here that his house was full
and his office was full and that he was
met everywhere by people who wanted
to talk to him about this bill, and other
senators made similar reports
Senator Norman of Bartholomew
county made a speech in q religious
meeting Sunday afternoon in which he
said that he had been imporruned aud
threatened with destruction Of his bust
ness if he refused to vote against the
prohibition bill but that as a result Of
prolonged prayer by himself and his
wife he had come to the conclusion that
he would vote dry.
one reason why the senate leaders
have determined to dispose of these
three measures this week is that the
session is now nearly one-half over and
they want TO get these bills out Of the
way so they may take up republican
platform and administration measures
and see what they can do with them.
Woman's suffrage is the only one of
these three remaining for the house to
dispose of. That bin is in the hands Of
a committee Of which Representative
Nesey Of Fort Wayne is chairman ana
Vesey has them all guessing to what
that committee viii do. He said yes
terday morning that he was ready to
report the bill out amy time the suf-
fragists were ready for it. In the aft
ernoon he said he would report the bill
out When the time was ripe and that
anyone could place his own construc-
tton on that statement. The general un-
derstanding has been that Nesey pro-
posed to hold up the bill in COMMITTEES
and to allow it to die there. but what
he really means to do remains mys-
terry.