The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-01-24
PRESIDENTIAL
SUFFRAGE BILL
UP FOR HOUSE
CONSIDERATION
New Measures Introduced
Provide State Child Labor
Commission and Memorial
to Veterans of World War.
PRESS LOBBY BARRED
(BY Associated PresSl

(By Associated Press)
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 24.-Warning
against newspaper lobbying from
Speaker Echbach, urging Of more
speed by Lieut.. Gov Bush, and the in
PRODUCTION Of bills occupied the inter
est of legislators at their morning
session today. The speaker told
members Of the house that they
should not read read newspapers dur
ing the session.
Suffragists expected that their mea-
sure for presidential suffrage would
come up for consideration in the house
this afternoon.
In the senate the committee on con-
stitutional revision struck out the reg
istration feature in Senator Bardsley's
suffrage amendment to the constitu-
ton and recommended that it be
passed. 1t will come up for second
reading and will be open to amend
on the floor at II o'clock next Thurs
day with several other proposed
amendments as special order of
business.
Fifteen Bills in House.
Fifteen new measures were intro
duced In the house and eight in the
senate. There were several commit
tee reports and few bills were called
down for second reading.
The "eugenic" bill, which has been
introduced at previous sessions was
placed before the house today. Other
important measures introduced in the
house provide that inunctions cannot
be issued to prevent strikes; that
memorial be erected to Indiana SOL
diers Of the world war; that child
labor conditions shall be investigated
by commission; and create a state
commission to have charge of moving
pictures.
In the senate the important bills pro.
vide that county officials shall be paid
their salaries monthly instead of quar-
terly; that a person 21 or more years
Of age with 10 years continuous expe
rience in drug store. may obtain a
license as a pharmacist: that all gen.
eral and appellate judges be elected
at a special election and that political
insignia shall not be placed over their
names on the ballot.
Would Use Prisoners.
Convict labor would be used in
building state roads and excavating
shale beds under bill which Senator
John Alldredge of Anderson, is pre-
pairing for Introduction. The bill is
meant to link with the administration
state highway bill now in both
branches of the legislature. Senator
A!ldredge said:
"Stale is being used now to a great
extent in building roads through the
state" the senator asserted. "The
men serving sentences on the state
penal farm. and at other similar insti-
tutions could excavate this shale and
put it on the roads. During idle hours
ct the penal farm now the men are put
TO work digging trenches and reflling
them just for exercise"
Senator Alldredge said that prison
ers could be placed under guard and
taken from one place to another to as
sist in the state highway commission
in constructing the net work of roads
which are planned to connect cities of
more than 5000 population.
OIL Inspector.
Placing the inspection of oil under
control Of the state food department
after Sept. 80, next. bill Is being pre-
pared for introduction. John Edwards
legal advisor of Governor Goodrich is
writing the bill and expects to have it
ready for submission soon. All fees
now paid Oil inspectors would be elm
mated and the inspecors woulG be
paid a straight salary of $125 month.
The two students from each county,
named annually to attend Indiana
University, would be selected by coun-
ty school superintendent instead of
by the county board of commission
ers, according to provisions of a bill
Representative Davis of Jay County
hnc int vi h,
highest and next high grades when
graduated from high school would be
given first chance to attend the State
university. In addition to receiving
instruction at the university free of
charge the matriculation fee, now
charged, would be eliminated by the
proposed law.
State officials, their emissaries and
lobbyists will not be permitted on the
floor OF the senate during the present
session under a ruling by Lieutenant
Governor Bush. The only persons per.
mitted to circulate freely among the
senators while in the chamber are the
senators themselves and accredited
representatives Of the press.
The ruling followed the appearance
of an employe OF state department
at the desk of a senator during a de-
bate. This was against the regulations
ana IN conllct with the dignity Of the
senate, the lieutenant governor assert
ed.
Prior to the announcement by the
president of the senate that all but
members of the senate and newspa-
permen must keep off the floor of the
chamber some persons favoring action
for or against measures, or interested
in legislation proposed to be introduc-
ed had shown an inclination to pay no
attention to the door-keepers and had
started the practice Of going on the
floor to talk to senators while busi-
ness was being transacted
< Another step to eliminate the Ger
man language from Indiana's public
life is to be taken in a bill to repeal
a statute requiring that instructions
at polls be printed in German as well
as English.
Continued on Page Twelve.)