Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-03-12
BALLARD GETS
A BILL THROUGH |! 4
Deals With Costs Of Suits Over
Inheritance faxes Much
Business In Legislature

Frankfort, KY, March 12. Efforts
of Senator Carter, of EIizabethtown,
Democrat, to abolish the office of oil
inspector in Kentucky, and thereby to
save. to the state 100000, were de-
feated by vote of 18 to II.
Senator Carter said this was "one
of the very useless offices that had
been overlooked by Governor Edwin
P. Morrow. In his own county (Har-
din), Senator Carter said fourteen
year-old girl is oil inspector.
Immediately following defeat of the
Carter bill the Senate appropriated
$2,018.16 to pay the expenses of the
legislature committee which investi-
gated penal and charitable instftu-
tons of the state.
Senator Simmons broke up the Re
publican unanimity in the Senate when
he obtained the aid of Senator Stoll to
have printed the substitute for the
bill to put telegraph and telephone
companies under the State Railroad
Commission.
The Senate supported the Rules
Committee when it refused to bring
out the bill of Senator Burton to reg
ulate the law of distribution. Senator
Burton moved that the bill be taken
from the Rules Committee and placed
on its. passage.
Senator Harris said the reason the
Rules Committee declined to bring out
the bill was because the bill would
change a law in Kentucky century
old
Other. reasons were attributed to the
Rules Committee by Senator Burton,
but he did not say what they were.
The motion was defeated, 10 to II,
Senator Stoll voting with the Demo
Gratis. Senator Burton afterward
apologized to the. Rules Committee,
saying that he had been mistaken as
to the wording of the bill. II III
The bill of Senator Rives TEL lAdae
the purchaser oof propeEtyk hHhlersffAr
taxes, if saletfis before! FSbhHW IL
was passed; without opposition.
Husbands and fathers who fail to
support the wife and rnninef children
are subject to- a. fine and jail Sentence
under provisions ofia bill Of Senator
Simmons, which was tpassed dnanim-
ously by the Senate. ibGTHGt zoI
Senator Antics bill to provide for
an Inspector of vocational schools was
passed, % to 2. Senator Hogue object
ed to the bill because it appropriated
money for salaries.
The bill Of Representative Meyers to
provide for establishment and mainte-
nance of public Libraries in cities of
the second, third, fourth fifth sixth
classes was passed, "a to 0. The bill
as amended, makes it optional with
the council to vote funds for library.
His bill to establish and maintain
public Libraries in counties also was
passed. This bill enables theassFis-
cal court Of county to sapppopiiate
money for library. e-9s
! The hill Of Senator Gardner to pro-
vide for an appeal from an order OF
the State Tax Commission for reas-
sessment was passed, % to o..
The bill of Senator Whitaker to re-
quire the State Tax Commission t.
prescribe forms on which county
clerks report generations was passed
33 to O.
Senator Harlan's bill to give jewel
ers a lien on goods left for repair was
passed without opposition.
Money remaining in the hands o1
the jeweler, after the cost of repair
has been deducted, goes to the stat,
school fund. Senator Harlan's bill t.
regulate renovation of mattresses alst
was adopted.
By vote of 38 to AZ the House O
Representatives a second time defeat