The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18
ZIG BILLS co
TO PRINTER AS
ACTS OF 1923
Sharp Increase in Tax Rate
Chief Feature of
Measures.

were in the stack that went to the
state printer today for incorpora-
ton in the acts of 1929, represent
ing the legislative enactments of the
seventy-siXth general assembly Of
Indiana as approved by Governor
Harry @. Leslie.
Except for measures bearing
emergency clauses to make them
operative Immediately, the new acts
viii not become effective until print
ed in book form, probably about
May Is.
Aside from changes they effect
In the civil and criminal laws of
the state, the measures carried one
fact of significance for all Indiana
residents, the certainty Of a sharp
increase in the state tax rate, now
% cents. Appropriations for the ifs
cal bienniurn exceeded $55, 100000,
more than 100000 greater than
two years ago, and threaten to boost
the tax rate to 81 or SO cents.
Pocket Veto for Thirty
Fifty -one bills were approved by
the Governor Saturday before the
deadline on executive action fell at
midnight. To the sixteen already
vetoed, we're added thirty by the
pocket veto route. Of 300 bills intro
duced in the legislature, SGT failed of
legislative enactment and SO never
reached the Governor.
Important among measures ap-
proved Saturday were the chain
store bill to increase state revenues
by an amount variously estimated at
from 100000 to $4,000,000 year;
the armory probe measure directing
the state board of accounts to make
an exhaustive investigation of the
states armory building program;
the corporation law recodif1cation
measure and five companion bills;
the Republican organization bill
giving women equal voting powers
with men in party organizations,
and the Cooper bill removing the 40
mile-an-hour speed limit on state
highways and placing responsibility
for safe driving on the operator.
Registration Suit Lost
Included among important dying
by pocket veto, was the Indiana
League of Women Voters perma-
nent registration BILL
Like fate was dealt the bill spon-
sored by the Marion county delega-
ton in both houses to increase the
salary of four Marion county munic-
ipal Judges from $4,000 year to
$4,000. And the Kottkamp bill,
which would have authorized Cen
ter township constables to appoint
deputies if the township advisory
board appropriates funds for sal
aries.
The pocket veto also caught the
Lowry-McKesson bill extending the
4-miI special levy for the George
Rogers Clark Memorial at Vincennes
another year.
Another appropriation measure
that failed for want of action was
the one appropriating $4,000 an
nually for two years for an investi-
CATION by Purdue university into
possibilities of increasing the use
of Indiana coal.
Court bills Jared badly, three fall
ing into the pocket veto, Among
them was the measure to give
Grant county, now Joined with Della
ware, a separate circuit court.
Referendum Killed
A two-year delay in a popular
referendum on two constitutional
amendments giving the legislature
authority to levy an income tax and
prescribe qualifications for admiS-
sion to the bar, will be entailed by
the pocket veto of the bill setting
the referendum for the general cleo
ton of 1880.
Title of the bill said the 1880 pri-
mary election and because the text
had been changed enormously
changing the referendum to the
general election the bill was regard
ed unconstitutional.
Other measures killed by the
pocket veto" included those pro-
viding for enumeration of retarded
school children; making Armistice
day legal holiday; amending the
law regulating the sale of prison.
made goods; giving the state audi
tor exclusive supervision of state
school aid; providing optional dental
inspection for school children;
establishing a permanent state adult
and Juvenile probation department,
and preventing motorists from driv-
ing automobiles while a property
judgment is pending.