The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-11
S240,000 SOUGHT
BY SENATOR FOR
MENTAL HOSPITAL
Fund for PSyChOpathiC InStitu-
ton Asked in Bill Offered
by Holmes.

An appropriation of s24o, 900 for the
establishment of a psychopathic hos
pital for treatment of early mental dis
eases was asked today in Senate Bill
63. introduced by Senator Holmes. The
bill provides the hospital should be
established in connection with the
Long Hospital in Indianapolis.
Repeal of the voters registration
law was proposed in Senate bill No.
so, introduced by Senator Hays.
Abolition of the Office secretary of
the teachers retirement board was
asked in a bill introduced by Senator
Chambers.
Other bills introduced included the
fixing Of salaries of Supreme and APP
pellate Court judges; prohibiting the
State board Of health to condemn
schoolhouses; providing for establish
ment of Juvenile court judges in GER
tain; standardizing transfer of stocks
In corporations; regulating parties liv-
ing under a limited divorce decree;
abohshing monthly teachers insti-
tutes in townships; limiting attorney
fees in public Improvement; creating
an agency for county purchases, and
two bills regulating the retirement of
teachers.
Joint Senate resolutions providing
for classification Of counties and
townships for election purposes, and
regulating income collection tax, were
introduced by Senator English for
constitutional amendments.
A Senate resolution providing for
the purchase of the sand dunes in
northern Indiana for a State park
was introduced by Senator Buchanan.
Among bills introduced in the House
were two by Representative John H.
Schaefer Of Columbus and Edward B.
Bender of louisville, seeking to abol-
ish the engineers registration board.
Other bills provided for; The re
placement of land surface which has
been destroyed by surface mining; pen
alties for improper dealings in real
estate; appointment OF State proba-
ton officer and juvenile commission:
registration in recorders Office Of all
conveyances and mortgages; re-euact-
Of five on all freight and passenger
trains of fifty and five cars. respec-
lively; establishment of closed season
for five years on quail and Monaghan
pheasant; power to license dogs and
10 prohobit the keeping of them
would be in hands of township Jrus-
tee; school contracts above 5000 20 be
advertised publicly; school boards In
city above 100. 600 shall authorize de-
failing of any officer or member of
board on official mission and to pay
expenses: fixing time for payment Of
street Improvement assessment; re-
spousibility for unruIy children to be
that. of parent or guardian; the car
rying of deadly weapons openly with
malicious intent 10 be punishable by
$500 fine; establishing procedure by
which cities may build utility plants
prohibiting city judge from practcing
law; $50 to $500 fine and six-month
sentence for driving motor vehicle
while intoxicated and $500 fine and
up to two years sentence for failure
to stop after an accident; placing road
construction in hands Of county Of
ficials: 81 900 fine and a sentence OF
from one to two years for transport
ing liquor in an automobile; authoriz
ing township to issue bonds in lieu
OF making tax levy; defining bOunda
ries of Jasper County; repeal of three
mile road law.