The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-03
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press)
INDIANAPOLIS, March 3.-Because
all amendments to be proposed to the
tax reform bill were not ready when
the state senate convened this morn
ing, consideration of the bill was post
poned until 2 o'clock Tuesday after
Enoo
Two resolutions proposing amend
ments to the state constitution were
passed soon after the session opened.
One would abolish courts of justices
of the peace, and the other would base
the legislative apportionment on the
vote for secretary of state.
Efforts to recommit the blue sky
bill to committee on judiciary B failed.
Two concurrent resolutions favoring
discharged soldiers were adopted in
the senate. One would urge congress
to enact law granting all discharged
soldiers and sailors months pay and
the other would ask Indiana senators
and representatives to pay deficit in
the present salary of discharged ser
vice men" as compared with the sal
aries which they left to enter the
military or naval service.
Oppose Insurance Department
By vote of Is to p the senate re.
fused to- concur in house amendment
to the Alldredge administration bill
creating an insurance department
Lieutenant-Governor Bush appointed
Senators Nejdl and Elsnor to confer
with a like committee of the house to
agree on the amendments Some SEN
ators expressed the belief that the two
members of the senate conference
committee will make an effort to
withhold the bill until it is too late for
final action, because it was an admin
lstrat1On measure.
In committee report, the entire
house bill defining Bolshevism was
stricken out after the enacting clause,
because members of the committee
considered it too weak. They insert
ed new bill to strengthen the meas
ure and provide for it's enforcement.
Action was deferred on the tax re-
form measure when Senator Negley
announced that the subcommittee ap-
pointed by majority members at a
conference yesterday to draft amend.
ments, had not completed its work.
1t is the intention to place the bill in
practically the same form as it was
before the house changed.
Debating the proposed constitutional
oHieuuueul LOT legislative dQpOrtlOn-
ment, Senator Bracken declared it was
his belief that all constitutional
amendments presented at this session
were for the purpose of delaying
vote on woman suffrage which was
ready for ratification by this general
assembly and approval by the people
Two Bills Passed
Two bills were also passed by the
senate. One was the Munton measure
specifying the procedure for petition
ing for drains and the transaction of
drainage commissioners The other
was by Kline, providing for the erec-
ton of danger signals 100 to $50 feet
from unprotected grade crossings out
side incorporated cities.
In keeping with decisions reached
by leaders to spend today considering
house measures on passage, the lower
house of the legislature passed five
measures this morning and spent the
remainder of the time in considering
routine business. This afternoon the
house was scheduled to be organized
as the committee of the whole to con-
slider the specific appropriation bill,
carrying a total of s3,5O0,00O, which
is expected to be trimmed in several
respects.
A movement on foot, which may re-
suit in the specific appropriation meas
ure, being laid over until tomorrow for
consideration concerned proposal to
abandon the state normal school at