Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-17


labor troubles In Gas City by the use Of
deputy sheriffs. He declared the deputy
system is better than calling military
I trained men into disturbances. The
Senator said the people are opposed to
the cOnstabulary system because Of its
great expense.
Senator Nejdl opposed the bill because,
he said, 1t would give authorities an OPP
portunity to swear in a 'lot of rough
necks" with which TO fight organized
labor. Nejdl is also against the con
stabulary idea.
! The Senate passed Senator Richards
bill which raises the pension rate of re-
tired policemen in cities of the first and
second class. Officers retiring after
twenty years service would receive $40
a month and for each additional year
they remain on the force they would,
on retirement, receive 81 a month extra.
! Senator Southworths bill fixing the
salary Of the commandant of tie State
Soldiers Home at $500, the adJutant at
/ $1,000 and the surgeon at $500 was
/ passed.
/ The Senate also passed Senator Strode's
bill giving judges Of Circuit Courts power
TO appoint bailiffs at a salary not to
exceed 81 q day. The measure would
raise the present bailif's salary from
81 day, at the option of the Judge. The
vote was 30 to IS. The constitutional
majority was not obtained until the alb
sentees were called.
! The administration budget bill, one Of
. Governor Warren T. McCray's campaign
pledges, was passed by the Senate today
( by a vote of 40 to 9. IL now goes to
the House.
The measure, which will revolutionize
+ he rat Of ra1aa ba
administration of the law in the hands
OF the chief examiner Of the State board
Of accounts. He is given a chief clerk
whose sole duties viii be the gathering
I Of data and the compilation of the
budget
| The various departments of state and
! the State institutions are required TO
/ submit, by Oct. o fanny legislative year,
a detailed staement of their needs and
/ expenditures.
/ These figures are prepared in budget
which then goes to the Governor. ON
I his approval It is then submitted to the
/ Legislature. The bill win automatically
/ eliminate the Legislative Visiting Com
mittee which has heretofore prepared the
[ financial requests.
/ Senator Rats, author Of the bill, in
! speaking on It, said that the special SEES
sion If the Legislature last summer was
/ made necessary because the Legislature
/ Of 1919 had not toreseen the tremendous
financial outlay that would be necessary
/ IN the next two years.
1T simply places the State government
/ on q business basis" be said.
/ Senator Joseph NJ Cravens Of Madison.
/ IN taking issue with the provisions Of
| the bill, said that It took away the
/ Legislatures power OF making an honest
( Investigation Of the States affairs and
| placed those functions IN the hands Of
/ one so-called business man.
at may provide a few more offices,
| but so far as the institutions are con-
,erned II won't do any good" he said
The members OF our institutional boards
are men of the highest integrity and
| business ability"
In rapping what he termed was cen
tralization of power the Senator took a
fling at the purchasing agent law ana
/ said long-term contracts he had made
would cost the institutions thousands
Of dollars in excess payments.
| He predicted that the future assemble
would not accept, without questioning
/ the figures contained in the budget, and
| in this connection he decried the abol-
| ishment Of the Legislative Visiting
| Committee.
4 say to you that would be the worst
| thing you ever did to the State OF In
| diana" Senator Cravens declared.
Senator Rats, in reply, declared the
measure only supplements the work or
the Legislative Visiting Committee and
| denied that the committee is eliminated.
at will not prevent the legislative
committees from visiting these institu-
tions," he said, but it is to be done In
a different manner"
When Rats and Cravens got into a
running debate Senator Beardsley moved
the previous question, but the chair ruled
! Cravens had the floor.
Senator Duncan, chairman of the Legfs-
lative Visiting Committee, declared in ex-
planning his favorable vote that he was
not sure about the merits of the bill, but,
under the circumstances, he would sup
port it. He said he felt the committee
should have more time to conduct it's
Investigation.