The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-14
LOBBYISTS |
GATHER AS
END NEARS
City Mecca for Friends, Foes
of Measures With 19
, Days Remaining.
COMPENSATION TARGET
Fight Expected in House on
City Manager Bill.
BY Frank j. Prince

With but nineteen legislative days
remaining in the life of the present
Indiana Legislature, Indianapolis
has become the mecca for friend and
foe of proposed legislation of varied
kinds and descriptions.
Much of the preliminary maneu-
vering and sighting of guns has been
done and the decks are now cleared
for real action.
One of the first me3su. % know
it's fate in the House of Representa-
tives this week will be the $3,500,0 900
bridge across the Ohio River at
Evansville. 1t was shot through the
Senate like the projectile from
big Bertha" The "show me" boys
who do not live along the river want
roads at home and say that the
bridge will take $1,5O0,00 from high
way funds.
Increases in workingmen's COM
pensation which was unsuccessfully
hard fought in the Senate undoubted-
ly will be attacked by the farm bloc
in the House. Judiciary A Commit
tee recommended it for passage with
Aput amendment.
Pension Up
Missionary work done by delega-
tons from various fraternal orders,
headed by Otto P. De Luse, will get
the acid test when Senator James J.
,Tejdls old age pension bill comes
from the House committee this week.
1t took two trials to put it over in
the Senate.
A grand fight is expected when
Judiciary B committee in Speaker
Leslie's division of the two ring cir
Gus reports the Sims mayor pro-
lection bill' out. The bill prevents
establishing city manager govern
ment in city until the terms of
the mayors have expired.
Real opposition to the measure
did not materialiZe in the Senate be-
cause some of the Evansville folks
who were against the bill were for
the Evansville bridge bill and did not
want to hurt the latter. But with
the bridge matter out of the way a
different story is promised.
Those who attended the Izaak Wal
sion will have an opportunity to
show their appreciation soon. The
Bradford stream pollution bill, spoil-
sored by the league, will have it's day
in the lower house this week. The
unlimited authority of the State
board of health contained in the
first draft has been eliminated.
Blow at Coffin
A public hearing on the Hughes
Bender primary bill will hold the
boards in committee meeting Tues
day. Aimed at George V. Coffin,
Marion County "boss," the measure
is designed to put teeth into the law
and prevent crooked primary elec-
tions. A new feature is advanced in
duplicate ballots" the duplicate re-
naming in the custody of the Cir
cult Court for period of six months
after an election. Any ten persons
could have a recount of their pre-
cinct by showing cause.
With decided opposition expressed
by the labor crowd in the Legis-
lature the luxury tax proposed by
former Lieutenant Governor Ed
Bush, as representative Of the Farm
Federation, died at birth.
Huffman Bill Up
Drug and drugless healers will
have their inning on both sides of
the Statehouse this week.
Medical men will try to convince
the Senate that the Huffman bill,
which passed in the House by a
scant constitutional majority, is the
thing. Chiropractors and nature
paths will seek at the same time to
prove to the lower house that they
are each entitled to/a board and regu-
lation.
And so that none may be sighted
consideration will be given to the
bill by Representative William III.
Harrison. which makes only lay
men eligible for membership on the
medical supervision board. This is
regarded by many as a Christian Sci
erce measure.
Night sessions loom in the offing.
With close to 600 bills in both houses
and but a small number killed, speed
will be necessary If anything is ac-
complished. Unless terrific impetus
is given the proceedings the acts of