The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-14
DEFECT TO HOLD
UP FINAL VOTE
ON GERMAN BILL
Correction Required Because
Of Faulty Wording Con-
servation Measure Passes.
(By Associated Press)

| (By Associated Press)
| INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 14.-The ad-
ministration conservation bill passed
In the house of the Indiana legislature
this morning under suspension of the
rules by vote of "a to 20. Republi-
can representatives voting with the
minority to defeat the bill included
! Representative Laughlin of Oden, and
Sambor, Of East Chicago.
/ Action on the Negley anti-German
measure yesterday, will have to be
corrected by either the senate or the
house, as Governor Goodrich has been
I informed the bill as drawn would not
repeal the German language law of
| 1869. The fault with the bill, it was
explained, is in the wording. The bill
| is now in the senate.
Republican leaders before the open
ing of the session this morning en-
deavored to get the house majority to
agree to pass the administration tax
and roads bill as amended by the
committees recently. Opposition was
SO strong, however, that the attempt
was given up. The leaders then con-
sidered calling another caucus to con-
slider the tax bill but certain Repub-
lican members said that they would
not be bound by caucus action and it
seemed probable at noon the bill
would be thrashed in open session.
Labor Measure Advanced
The Millenberger measure providing
for school boards Of cities and towns
consisting Of two members of one of
the dominating political party and one
member of the other leading party
was amended on second reading to
provide that one of the trustees shall
be a woman and that the members
serve without salary and not be re-
Quired to give bond, except the treas
urer of the board.
The Johnson child labor measure
was advanced to third reading with
out being amended materially, al
though efforts were made to enable
employment Of children in the school
vacation periods and on the stage.
Voting strictly on party lines, the
state senate today passed the admin
istration bill placing the inspection OF
oil under supervision of the pure food
and drug commissioner. The vote
was 33 to 16. Senators Elsner and
Van Auken strongly opposed the
measure in speeches on the floor. Van
Auken declared this sis the same old
oil inspection law with little camou-
flage."
Approve "Movie" Bill.
The senate adopted committee re-
port recommending amendment and
passage of the Sunday movie" bill.
AS amended it would not permit mo-
tion picture theatres to open on Sun
now operating on that day, unless the
mayor and city council or governing
body would grant permission. The
bill would not legalize Sunday shows
in unincorporated towns and would
permit them only after 1:30 o'clock in
other towns or cities.
Two bills were passed without a
dissenting vote. One was by South
worth regulating the exchange Of GER
tain classes of reciprocal or interim
surance contracts. The McCray bill
providing restrictions In bringing suits
against insurance companies was
passed also.
Committee reports recommended
passage of the following bills: by
Nejdl increasing legislators salaries
from Sc to $40 day and granting the
speaker of the house an increase to
S15; by Masters, repeating the pres
ent registration law without providing
substitute; by Negley. authorizing
cities of the third, fourth and fifth
classes to spend money or issue bonds
to procure industries.
Three separate steps toward lays
affecting the teaching of the German
language in the schools of Indiana, or
the use of that language as a vehicle
of instruction, were taken by the leg
islature yesterday. They are as fol-
lows:
1.-The house at its afternoon ses-
sion passed House Bill 6, by Repre-
sentative Lowe, with an amendment |
by Representative Rothrock, which, in
the opinion Of it's advocates, compels |
the use of English as a vehicle of in
struction for any subject prescribed by |
law or the state board of education in
any elementary school, whether public,
private or parochial. The vote was
go to 0.
2.-The house Immediately after
ward passed, under suspension of the /
rules, an amended form of the ALL
dredge- -Negley bill from the Senate, |
which is intended to repeal the statute |
OF 1869 making the teaching of Ger
man compulsory upon petition of the |
parents or guardians of twenty-five |
children. The house substituted H. B. |
5, by Representative Lowe, for the ALI |
dredge-Negley bill, changing the Lowe
bill by inserting the word "only" to
make it conform with the idea of /
Senator Negley. The vote on this bill |
was "a to 0.
3-The senate, still later in the after !
noon, passed the Van Auken bill to
exclude German from the list of COM
pulsory studies in high schools. 1t |
was amended to read, Latin or any |
foreign language, except German"
The vote on this bill was 4S to 1, Sem
ator Hagerty of South Bend, casting
the single negative.