The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-12-15
BONUS Dies;
PRISON BILL
MADE LAW
Soldier Legislation Bobs Up
With Virile Support But
Fails Reformatory Mea-
sure Provides for Removal.
PUT UP STIFF FIGHT
ERv Associated Pressl

up with yi-ile support in the house, |
prolonged the special session of the |
Indiana general assembly until the |
early hours this morning, but finally |
died. The Teformatory removal bill, |
the measure which the assembly was |
called into extra session to enact, be |
came a law at 1855 a. m, when Gov
ernor Warren T. McCray affixed his |
signature.
Consideration of the bill, which |
makes provision for the removal OF |
the reformatory from Jeffersonville to !
a more central location, had been COM |
pleted by both house and senate after !
midnight The house reached final
adjournment at 12.47 a. m, and few
seconds later the senate adjourned
sine die.
The reformatory removal bill WIS
taken TO the executive officers where
Governor McCray was waiting and he
at once signed it together with the
bill appropriating $4,000 for the en-
pense of the 15-hour special session.
Soldier bonus legislation appeared in
both houses, identical bills being in
troduced by Senator John S. Alldredge,
Republican, Anderson, and Representa-
tive o. U. Newman, Republican, lndl-
| annapolis The house bill was pressed,
| its supporters explaining that they pre-
| ferred action by that body inasmuch
| as it contained provisions for raising
| revenue.
! Avoid Action
! Passage of the bonus bill by the
! lot in Ia a
IS to was followed by parliamentary
maneuvering by the senate in order
| to avoid action on it at this session.
The house messenger appeared in
| the senate and started to announce
passage of the measure He was in
formed that the senate was not in ses-
! sion. A series of recesses followed in
I the senate pending final engrossment
! of the reformatory removal measure.
When at last this measure was
brought in ready for Lieutenant Gov
ternor Emmett Brancl's signature there
was final scurry to appoint the COM
mittees to inform the house that the
senate was ready for final adjourn
ment This committee was named and
the house committee was received
with its announcement that all busl-
ness had been completed.
Then the word came that the house
had adjourned sine die. The lieuten-
ant-governor took the bonus bill from
his desk and announced that he was
ready to hand it down for considera-
tion of the senate but he explained
that the lower body had taken final
adjournment and consequently it was
useless for the senate to proceed with
the measure The senate then ad-
journed sine die, the session was over
: and the bonus bill was dead
, Vets Fold coIors
Twenty-Five members of the Veter-
f ans of Foreign Wars who had greeted
with jubilance the announcement of
) the bonus bills passage in the house
, silently folded the colors and standard
I which they had carried to the legis-
: lative halls and departed.
= The bonus measure would have
given ex-service men and women so
for each month of service during the
World war, dependent upon its ratifi-
cation by the voters at the next gen.
eral election. Free tuition in state
educational institutions with $50
monthly payments was offered as an
S alternative to the cash bonus.
: Proponents of the bonus, led by Rep
+ resentative Givan, indianapolis. Sher
E wood Linton; and Ahlgran, Whiting
/ fought through an intricate parliamen
S tarY tangle before they could get the
) measure before the house for consider
[ alton Having overcome the rules
tangle the bonus champions still found
much opposition, especially from rep
! resentatives who believed the session
! should be confined to action on the
| reformatory removal bill. Much op
position was removed when the refe
! rendum feature of the measure wa:
, explained.
Reach Agreement.
: The reformatory removal bill was
. passed in the late afternoon by the
'. house and sent to the senate. Tht
- latter body began discussing it a
= night and after making a number o
amendments, passed it 35 to IL.
Refusal of the house to concur ii
the senate's amendments was followed
:: bv appointment of conference commit
- tee by the two houses. The confer
- ence committee finally reached al
agreement and its report was accept
ed
e As finally enacted into a law, tn
y reformatory removal bill differs bu
little from the bill drafted under tn
. direction of Governor McCray. 1t i
: designed to facilitate removal of tn
" reformatory from Jeffersonville AM
n transfer of the site together with tn
& buildings to Colgate & Co.
/. Reappoint Committees.
,r Reappointment of all members o
le both the reformatory relocation CON
IL mission and the advisory committe
q. 10 aid the commission and the reform
v atory trustees in the new refermator
IS project, was announced today by Coy
ly ernor McCray.
e The commissioners are NJ. E. Fole!
r Indianapolis, Charles z. Hustis. o
Brazil; George H. Custer, of New A
= bany, and c. W. Mouch. of Newcastle
The advisory committee member
are George A H. Shideley, superinter
dent of the reformatory; G. McCo1
agile. superintendent of the boy
school at Plainfield; s. E. Smith, SUI
erintendent of the Eastern HospitS
for the Insane, at Richmond; Thoma
A. Daley. of Indianapolis, and Este
= Duncan. of Cloverdale.