The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15
Legislative
Calendar
House bills ~introdMced:

H. B. 367. Murden-Empowering public
service commission to authorize municipal
" owned utilities to fix rates producing a
fair return and permitting transfer of
surplus to municipalities general fund.
Judiciary A.
H. B. 1858. notwithstanding land
owners to cut weeds eight feet on each side
Of line fences. Agriculture.
H. 3. 800. DonnelI-Providing for watch
ers at the polls upon petition Of ten or
more candidates of same party. Elections.
H. B.. 370. Lee, Gray-Extending free
hunting and fishing license to veterans
who served in armies Of occupation in the
Philippines or Boxer rebellion. Judiciary
B.
H. 3. 81. Knight-Limiting jprisdic-
ton OF county commissioners to bridge re-
pair JOBS costing not more than 500 in
stead OF $50. as at present; and permit
ting commissioners to award bridge re-
pair Jobs up to $500 without advertising.
Roads.
H. B. 372. transforming that change
of venue in civil suits involving
81, 900 or more may be taken to counties
contiguous to adjoining counties. as well
as to adjoining counties. as at present
Judiciary A.
II. B.. 373. Freeman-Proyiding that in
| tangibIes, including money on deposit,
shall be listed at rs per cent of their
value for taxation. Ways and means.
H. 3. 374. Notwithstanding trading
in futures and defining as illegal u
transactions when actual exchange of the
commodity or security is not intended.
Judiciary B..
H. B. S75. Ahlgreu-Prohibiting holders
of mortgages or conditional sale notes on
automobiles, hereafter executed, from re-
taking such property without suit and
foreclosure in court. Judiciary B.
H. B. 37e. Ahlgren-IncreaSing maximum
levy for sanitary district in East Chicago
from 8 cents to 20 cents. and increasing
bonding limitation from 0,s per cent to
2 per cent. cities of second class.
H. B. 377. ~Thiel-Fixing the power to
regulate II control practice of medi-
cins within the jurisdiction of state board
of health and providing no corporation
shall make any bylaw or rule affecting
rights of duly licensed physicians Or sur
geons to practice. Rights and privileges.
H. B. 1913. Grant-Standardizing salaries
of county officials and deputies through
out the state in accordance with survey
authorized by 1920 legislature. Fees and
salaries.
H. B. 379. Bosom, by request-Prohibit-
ing purchase or sale Of duplicate keys to
automobiles, alarm systems, deposit boxes,
etc, unless record of transaction, naming
buyer and seller, is filed with county clerk.
Judiciary B.
H. B. $50. Misunderstanding for
establishment of battalion of marine
corps militia in Indiana. Military affairs.
H. B. 381. MISUNDERSTANDING tax
laws to include women between 81 and
so years in payment Of poll tax. Ways
and means.
H. 3. 5S2. ciwin-Appropriating $485 for
relief of Herman Kali. injured by state
highway truck. Ways and means.
H. B. 1888. Hawkins of Shelby-Trsns-
ferring from township trustees to county
surveyor authority and responsibility for
cleaning and maintaining drains and
ditches. Drains and bikes.
H. B. 364. Strect-Reducing maximum
number of days of teachers institutes
from FIVE to three. Education.
H. B. 3S5. Lafuze-Lncreasing the state
forestry fund levy from one mill to two
| mills, beginning in 1923. Ways and means.
H. B. 1856. Lowry, Mrs. Zimmerman -
Increasing from one to four the number
of elective textbooks to be selected by
| state board OF education for use in high
schools. Schools.
H.. B. 3S7. Lowry-Prohibiting the dis
play of flags on graves other than those
of war veterans. Criminal code.
H. B. 3SS. Lowry. Mrs. Zimmerman -
| Jnrraocjnr from oy1a IN fO1iT the number
Of elective series of textbooks to be selected
by state board of education for use in
grade schools; providing that not more
than two SO selected may be changed at
succeeding meeting of board. Education.
House bills ON third reading:
H. B. "a. demonstrating department
Of aviation III cities Of second class at
option of city councils and methods OF
regulation. Passed; Ayes. 30; noes. l.
H. B. 172. Gwin, Freeman and Murden
Repeating 1927 act requiring publica-
ton of township trustees reports in two
| papers and making it one paper only. IN
definitely postponed. viva voce.
H B. 262. Manufacturing public
school teachers and professors in insti-
buttons Of higher education to take oath
Of allegiance to the United States. Passed:
Ayes, So: noes. L.
House bills indefinitely post
poned:
H. 8. 2o7. K~ing-Creating a voting com
mission to procure and transmit the votes
| of Indianans in the District OF Columbia
H p. 145. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. justice
of peace constables to appoint deputies
H. B. 1I2. ciroves-Reouiring gas n OIL
leases be recorded within thirty days
| after being signed.
H. B. SO. Adams. Byers-Administration
measure broadening review powers OF state
tax commission.
H. g. 322. Freeman. Knepper. Jones
Establishing 81 permanent auto license
plates with compartment for annual regis
tration card.
H. B. 1913. Freeman, Knepper. Jones-Re-
curing return OF license plates from auto
mobiles destroyed or junked.