The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-17

who will intdoduce them, said he ex-
pected to have the measures approved
by the ways and means committee in
the house on Monday. The commit
tee worked until midnight several
nights last week and all of Saturday
afternoon on the different proposed
appropriations. The appropriations
will provide for financing the states
many and varied activities and bus
mess during the next two fiscal years.
calling for expenditures of more than
$8,000,000 annually.
Status Of Bills.
Administration measures and their
status insofar as the house is con-
cerned, are commission highway, re-
peal Of the two-cent passenger fare,
appropriating $4,000 and creating a
commission to spend the money in
securing a memorial to Charles War
rem Fairbanks, all pending on second
reading; oil inspection under super
vision of state food and drug depart
ment( already passed by the senate);
creation of commission to study and
report on betterments of the teachers
retirement fund; and senate joint re-
solutions initiating changes to the
constitution to provide for the state
superintendent Of instruction; for the
governor vetoing the measures as
whole, and for classification Of coun-
ties for registration of voters, all in
committee of the house, Those on
third reading are the measures to
make the office of attorney general
appointive; to enable cities to adopt
the commission or city manager char
tiers of government; to remove and
rebuild the state reformatory at Put
namville; to locate farm colony
for feeble minded in southern Indiana.
Those passed include the bill giving
presidential suffrage to women citt-
zens, creation of a department of con-
servation, repeal of the German Ian
guage law of 1868; and creation OF
state department Of insurance along
with the senate resolution for changes
to the basic law providing for equal
suffrage for citizens; for removing
the word white" from the constitu-
ton section relating to militia; and
prevention of term or salary increases
during incumbency of public office.
sWright Bill.
Non administration measures which
were introduced in the house and in
which there is the widest interest in
clude the Wright amendments to the
prohibition law, now in such form
that attorneys have told Mr.. Wright
they believe the law, if amended,
would enable brewers and distillers
to manufacture and sell homemade"
wines, which is ready for final &C
ton; the workmen's compensation
bill, providing for sixty-five per cent
compensation and drafted SO as to
bring more industries under the law,
which is now on second reading; the
legalizing of the Sunday motion pic
ture shows, which is still in COM
mittee; prohibiting dissertation under
penalties that obtain for desecrating
the Sabbath, which is on third read
ing, and numerous others.
Since the introduction of the meas
ures providing for repeal of the state
public service commission law, Rep
resentatives ewman and Laughlin,
authors of the bill, have received in
formation from many places approx
ing the bill. The committee on Judi
cary also has been solicited to get
the measure upon the floor and 1t has
arranged for a public hearing in the
supreme court room next Tuesday
night. The bills, members first thought
were slated to never come out of the
committee.