The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-11
STATE
SESSION WITH
NIGHT FIGHTS
OVER BUDGET
House and Senate Conferees
Are Unable to Agree on APP
preparation Measures Until
After Midnight. XII.
H|LARITY MARKS CLOSE
(By Associated Pres.)


INDIANAPOLIS, March II. - The
gavel of final adjournment fell on the
seventy-frst general assembly at 5
O'Clock this morning, after a night of
| wrangling over the regular and spe-
cific appropriations bills House and
senate conferees on these measures
| were unable to agree until after mid
| night and both houses marked time
while awaiting action Of their confer
ence committees. From 1 80 o'clock
| until 5, all pretenses of decorum were
disregarded and hilarity reigned while
the bills were being enrolled
AS soon as Lieutenant Governor
Bush and Speaker Eschbach had sign
ed the specific appropriations, over
which there was the stiffest fight and
the longest delay, motions to adjourn
sine die were carried unanimously.
Many of the legislators left shortly
after adjournment and many left i'm
mediately it was learned that the con-
ferees on the bill had agreed.
Both appropriation measures along
with many others approved in the
closing hours were in the hands of
Governor Goodrich today. The gov
ernor worked through the night in his
office signing bills. He was aided by
his legal adviser, John Edwards.
Extra Session improbable
Many bills slated for passage by the
senate steering committee were con-
signed to the legislative graveyard as
were an equal number in the lower
branch AS the hands of the clock
moved toward morning, weary sena-
tors and representatives visited the
enrolling room frequently in their an
xiety to know how much more time
must elapse before the specific appro-
priation bill would be ready for the
signature of the presiding officers OF
the two bodies.
In the agreement on the specific ap-
preparation bill the possibilities OF an
extra session to procure money for
| the state institutions and offices van
| ished. For hours, however, the house
and senate committees fought over the
! bill and at midnight they were dead
| locked and a special session seemed
probable.
The conflicting ideas were on the
appropriations for Purdue university
and the Robert w. Long hospital OF
Indiana university, which the house
had stricken out of the original bill
| and which the senate reinserted. At
ter holding out for their views for
hours, the house conference commit
tee conceded this point to the senate
and the appropriations totalling $780,
600 were left in the bill.
Appropriations Reduced.
That section re-appropriating $780,
900 for the state highway commission
was stricken out. This money was
appropriated originally in 1917 for the
establishment of a commission and
CATION over the constitunality of the
law.
The legislative visiting committee
plans for making improvements at
state institutions on the collective
buying system through committee
to be composed Of the governor, the
members Of the visiting committee
and the ranking Democrat of the SEN
ate finance committee were given
hard blow in the reduction of the
governors 100000 emergency con-
tingent fund to 100000. In practical
ly every case the appropriations for
specific improvements at the institu-
tions for which this lump sum was
to have been used, were restored in
the bill as when it was transmitted
from the house to the senate.
During the four-hour wait for the
enrolling of the specific appropriation
measure, members of the house and
visitors, including many women, spent
the time playing childhood games,
marching through the corridors sing
ing Hail Hail, the Gangs All Here"
and other popular songs.
Governors Mansion Last.
Paper snow, books and papers were
thrown but the members soon tired of
the rougher manifestation Of their
pleasure at the ending of the session.
The last measure passed by the house
provides for the state accepting from
the city of Indianapolis the Kahn
property on Fall Creek boulevard and
to use it as the governors mansion.
The residence is one of the finest In
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