The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-06
CONSTITUTION
AMENDMENTS
ARE PASSED
IN SENATE
Governor Given Power to
Veto Appropriation Bill by
Administration Measure
Passed Today.
STRICT PARTY VOTE
(By Associated Press)


INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 6-Two of
the proposed administration amend
ments to the constitution passed the
senate today the vote on each being
passed strictly along party lines. The
amendments provided that the gov
ernor may veto items of appropriation
bill and that the legislature shall Gre
ate the office Of clerk of the supreme
court.
Americanization was the principal
subject for consideration by the lower
house. The Lowe bill, which Repre-
sentative Rothrock proposes to amend
to provide that no language except
the English, shall be used for instruc-
t1onal purposes or be taught in any of
the first six years of public, parOchial
and private schools of the state, was
on passage. Representative Vesey, of
Fort Wayne, who is fighting the mea-
sure. declared he hopes to defeat it,
III the bill is not amended but passed
as it originally was introduced, men,
bers declare there is a question whe-
ther parochial and private schools
would be affected.
An unspirited political fight to
smother the veto power amendment,
was started when Senator Cravens,
Democrat, moved that further con-
sideration of the joint resolution pro-
posing the amendment be Indefinitely
postponed. The vote on this question
was along party lines, 80 Republicans
favoring laying the motion to post
pcne on the table and IL Democrats
opposing. The seven Republicans who
broke from the political fold on prelim-
mary consideration of the supreme
court clerk amendment voted with
other members Of the majority side to-
day because the feature providing for
appointment of the clerk was stricken
out to make it conform with the Re-
publican platform.
Another registration bill was pro-
posed in the senate. It proposed to
register Indiana voters under the
army registration system. Registra-
tion books of 1918 would be used as a
basis for handling those already reg
istered in the precinct in which they
still live. .-.ss. :
/ Senator vanAuken's joint resolution
for amending the constitution to- Dro-
vide that voters show poll tax receipt
and pass a literacy test before voting
was expected to meet some opposition
when it came before the senate as a
special order of business this after
noon. The administration constitu-
tional amendment providing for exc
cutive appointment of the superin-
tendent Of public instruction was to
come out Of the committee today. The
majority will recommend redrafting
to provide only for creation of the
office by legislation and the minority
will favor indefinite postponement,
Democrats signing the minority.
The house also was expected to con-
slider on passage the measure, passed
by the senate, which provides for max
ing a separate judicial circuits of
Bartholomew and Decatur counties,
and the house bills providing for COM
mitment Of feeble-minded persons to
the School for Feeble Minded at Fort
Wayne. for employment Of inspectors
whose duty it would be to see that
buildings Of three stories or more are
constructed as present laws provide,
and for allowing the mayor of Misha-
waka $500 annually for managing q
municipality owned public utility plant
in addition to his salary as mayor.
Members expected the session to be
as important as was yesterday after
moons when the bill increasing the
minimum wage or teachers was passed
and the report of five members Of the
committee on roads, favoring all re-
ceipts from the automobile license tax
being placed at the disposal of the
proposed state highway commission
for construction of hard surfaced
roads, was substituted for the majori-
ty report of the committee, which
recommended the present method of
distribution Of these receipts among
the counties. The other amendments
proposed by the committee, which
would fix the salary of the engineer
at 81 900 and of the director at $500
annually, and provide for the south.
west, southeast, northeast and north
west portions of the state each being
represented on the commission were
adopted.
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