The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-01-28
BILL REPEATING
STATE OFFICE
IS PASSED BY
LOWER HOUSE
Department Of Statistics Also
Repealed by House Vote
Oil Inspection Bill Passes
Industrial Bill Up.
GOVERNOR IS OPPOSED
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press,
IrlDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 2S.-Passage
OF house bills for taking caro- Of oil In
spectors until next fall and for repeal
of the law creating the Offices OF
state department of statistics and GO.
ol0gy along with the introduction Of
fourteen new bills constituted the
greater part OF the business transacted
ut tho morning session nt tho lower
house Of tho Indiana legislature.
When the oil inspection hill. intro
duced by Representative kimmel was
hcinR voted on and tho name Of Rep
rcscutauvo Newman OF Indianapolis
WAS called. there was voice from
tho rear room answering "aye." Mr..
Newman was unable tn be present on
account of illnnss. Speaker Eschbach
calling attention TO tho absence of the
representative, declared very serious
oyensa had been committed. No one
acknowledged knowing who answered.
lNmncrauc representatives opposed
the passage OF tho Barker bill. pro-
vidiug for the repeal Of the laws Gre
atjng the office Of state statictician and
state geoloGist. Tho vote was II to
10 for passage.
Projects Women Workers.
The Morgan measure. which would
clear the title Of real estate formerly
used by the Wabash and Erie canal
was passed 30 to 1.
On account of objection by former
members to the bill providing for II
censes costing So 90 each. being taken
out before 1t would be lawful to oper.
ate vending and weighing machines
located on public thoroughfares. this
measure was made special order Of
business.
Eradication OF tuberculosis among
cattle Is the purpose sought in tho
bill introduced by Representative
Parker Of Boone county.
Women could not be employed
more than eight hours IN any "a (from
between 10 p. m. and 6 q. MD nor more
than six days week In manufactur-
ing, mechanical or mercantile cstab-
tishment, laundry, hotel restaurant,
telephone or telegraph Office or place
of amusement express office or for a
public carrier by provisions Of the
bill representative Mckinley. OF Mum.
Gle sent up. Violations for employers
would be punishable upon conviction
by Ane from $25 to 500. The indus.
trial board of Indiana would be given
authority to enforce the proposed
law.
When the enrolling clerks Of the
house Of the Indiana legislature went
to work today there were typewriters
for their use instead Of pen and ink.
The decision to use the typewriter
was reached yesterday upon motion
OF Representative Decker, Of Evans
vile. who informed the house that
Ele Stansbury, attorney general of
Indiana. had ruled the procedure
would not be unconstitutional.
Heretofore because of the question
ed constitutionality of enrolling bills
by use of typewriters has prevented
the legislature from forsaking the pen
and ink. In the past there have been
ent handwritings.
More care also will be exercised in
the punctuation and phraseology of
bills as they are sent to the enrolling
clerks. Speaker Eschbach said that
many careless mistakes have been
made heretofore in these particulars
and upon an order of the house the
committee on phraseology OF bills will
pass upon them before they are turn
ed over to the clerical forces.
Opposition Develops.
The first Outcropptng OF pronounced
opposition to any Of Governor Good. !
rich's proposed legislation within the
Republican ranks, developed last
night ut o meeting OF twelve senators
at the Columbia club here. The SEN |
ators. all Of whom are Republicans.
are said to have decided that the ad-
ministration conservation commission |
bill, introduced by Senator Wolfson.
has entirely too many teeth" because
az one OF the senators expressed 1t |
"the bill Is too drastic and was drawn |
to meet conditions fifty years hence
not those OF today" He referred to !
the powers given the comfntssion. |
The senator said another objection Is !
that too many persons would be re-
quired to operate the commission.
1t was the sense OF the meeting. he |
said. that new bill be drawn exclud-
ing the more drastic provisions. and |
that the bill now before the senate
committee on natural resources be rec
commended by that committee for IN
definite postponment. To get the |
sentiment OF the entire senate major
ity on this question. 1t was decided to
try to get them together in the senate
chamber omorrow night. Senator Fur !,
mas. chairman Of the committee on
Natural Resources, was chairman Of
the meeting lAN night.
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