The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-18
ANTI-GERMAN
MEASURE IS
RECEIVED BY
LOWER HOUSE
Bill Referred to Committee on
Education Senate Calls
Oil Inspection Bill Polite
al Plunder.''
CONSIDER WRIGHT BILL
fBy Associated Press,

(By Associated Press1
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 18-Upon re-
ceiving the anti-foreign language
measure passed by the senate yester-
day afternoon at the opening OF the
session this morning and referring it
to the committee on education the
house spent the remainder of the
morning in considering routine busi-
ness of which proposed legislation af-
| fecting the mining industry was the
most important.
Speaker Eschbach expressing his
disa pproval that members were not
voting on matters before the house,
instructed that hereafter the repre-
sentatives would have to vote on one
| side of the question or the other. His
declaration was made when only 73
members voted on the measure OF
striking out the enacting clause Of the
Daley measure providing for the
licensing of architectures and struc-
tural engineers. He ordered the vote
to be retaken and 88 members voted.
Six others who were present at roll
call at the opening of the session.
were absent from the floor when the
vote was taken.
On the first vote those favoring kill
ling the mea sure were in majority 81
to SO, but on the second vote the mem
bers favoring allowing the bill to ad-
vance to third reading were in major
ity by s, the vote being 48 to 40.
Vets Profit by Amendment
! Among the bills and resolutions
which the speaker announced for con-
sideration on passage this afternoon,
il there is time, is the Wright mea-
sure, proposing to amend the state
prohibition law. The measure has
been amended so that attorneys have
advised "bone dry" members that It
probably would enable brewers and
distillers to open their places of bust
ness and engage in the manufacture
and sale of wines. The author said
that the sbone drys" will have a suf.
ficient majority to admit It on third
treading to provide that an individual
can manufacture light wines for his
own use only.
Among bills advanced to second
reading on the Overmeyer house meas
ure providing for permanent registra-
tion of voters, the committee did not
report out the Winesburg bill, which
proposes appeal of the law. Members
favoring doing away with registration
Will have chance to urge such pro-
posed legislation tomorrow, as the
house ways and means committee lis
expected to report out the Laughlin
measure tomorrow, amended so that
1t will not carry an appropriation for
mailing registration records part OF
the historical records of the state.
Other bills advanced to second read
ing include the Winesburg bill calling
for recording of discharges of soldiers.
sailors and marines, of the world war
by the county recorders, the Newman
measure providing that a search can
not be conducted by police authority
until others until after bond has been
given to cover possible damages, the
Kimmel measure providing for conf1s-
Gated intoxicating liquors be turned
over to hospitals and the measure de
fining Bolshevism and fixing penalties
for being a Bolshevik.
Four Measures Submitted.
Four new bills were introduced, one
providing for the 1918 registration OF
voters, being permanent until they
move and for the registration of new
| voters, and another providing that any
township in the state within which u
school building has been condemned
by the state board of health can bor-
row the money to erect new build
ing up to $4,000 beyond the two per
cent constitutional debt limit
Miscellaneous business occupied the
morning session of the state senate,
preparatory to the afternoon session,
which was expected to be featured
second reading of the Sunday movie
bill and final consideration of the
Kimmel oil inspection bill character.
lied on the floor of the senate as a
measure of political plunder" Pass
age of the so-called lone hundred per
cent American" anti-German language
bill under suspension of the rule yes
terday gave impetus to the senators,
and many matters of routine were dis.
posed of. A bill for a referendum on
a constitutional convention was pre-.
sented.
Preceded by long argument, the
English bill increasing the salary of
supreme court judges from $4,000 to
$4,000 and appellate judges from
$4,000 to $500, passed the senate by
a vote of 26 to 20.
Would Move Prison
Senator Grands bill for registration
of threshing machines and clover hui
lers was passed by a vote of SO to 10
One bill introduced by Senator
Meeker provides for the transferral
of the automobile registration depart
ment from the office of secretary oi
state to that of a motor vehicle com
mission, created in the bill. The com
missioner's salary would be $4,000, and
he would be appointed by the governor
who would also approve the appoint
ment of all assistants in the depart
ment. The bill appropriates SIS, ,OO0
annually for maintenance OF the de
partment. 1t would prohibit the aban
dOnment of automobiles while the en-
gines are running and makes the
speed limit in city business districts
ten miles an hour. The bill was intro
duced by request.
/ Removal of the Indiana reformatory
from Jeffersonville to another place
south of the National road is provided
in bill introduced by Senator Nc
/ Kinley. The bill carries a provision
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