The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-07
CITY MANAGER
BILL PASSED
BY SENATE
Foes Put to Complete Rout;
Vote Is 80 to 7 on
NoII Measure.
GOES BACK TO HOUSE
Faces Final Crisis in Lower
Group by Arguments on
Amendments.
GOES BACK TO HOUSE

1IlSIlt were put 10 complete TouG IN
the Indiana senate today. BY vote
of 80 to z. the upper house passed
the Noll house bill designed to
strengthen and clarity the 1921 city
manager act.
Permitted to fire every shot they
had at the manager government
which indianapolis will adopt Jan.
1, 1880, foes of the Noll bill took the
most crushing defeat yet suffered by
anti-manager forces in the legisla-
ture.
The measure now goes back to the
house of representatives for concur
renee in senate amendments, the
final crisis of the bills story prog
ress to the Governors desk.
Only Z Votes Against Bill
Roll call came after an hours
debate, two-thirds of which came
from Senator Sumner Clancy of
Indianapolis, bitter opponent of the
manager form of government and
senate mouthpiece for George v.
Coffin, Republican chairman of In
dianapolis and the Seventh district
The six who joined with Clancy
voting mo" were: Senators George
w. Sims of Terre Haute, author OF
a repeal bill awaiting second read
ing: Oliver Kline of Huntington
James j. Nejdl of Whiting, George
B. Nottingham of Marion and John
C. Sherwood of Mitchell, all Repuo-
licans, and Samuel Benz of Eng
lish, Democrat.
First calling of the roll showed
28 ayes and noes. Absentees were
called and the number of affirma-
tive votes swelled steadily. But some
senator's, drifting in, took their seats
and refused to vote when their
names we're called until Lieutenant
Governor Edgar D. Bush insisted
they must vote.
Pass Buck to Bush
Senator Anderson Ketchum OF
Greensburg, Democrat, answered
Bush's challenge to vote, or III
exercise my prerogative and vote
for you," by authorizing the presid-
ing officer to vote for him.
Reflecting moment, Bush voted
mo-" but when another senator
suggested, silence gives consent, :
Bush approved the suggestion, ano
changed Ketchun1's vote to AYE,
Ketchum adding his approval
Senator G. Herman Pell of Car
bon. Republican, also passed the
buck" to Bush, who voted mo- only
to have Pell promptly change MS
vote to AYE
AS the "ayes'' piled UP, Senator
Sims shouted that the absentees be
excused, but he was not recognized
The Sims CLANCY cause was doom
ed. Four senators were absent.
Ralph Adams of Shelbyville, Will
liam v. Doogs of Cannelton, Lee
j. HaEtzen of Ft. Wayne and Byron
Huff of MartinSville.
Observing the senate,s 5-miY1ute
rule, Senato, Winfield Miller Of
Indianapolis, sponsor of the meas.
ure, briefly opened the debate bJ
recalling that 37,50o indianapolis
voters petitioned for the manager
government, and that in the refer
endum election in 1927, $4,000 voters
supported its adoption against $500
who were opposed.
"All we ask is that this legislature
give Indianapolis a fair chance tc
adopt this form of government
under the 1921 act amended so that
it will Junction" Miller said.
Clancy followed with all the argu-
ment he and Charles w. Jewett
| former mayor, had used against The
bill at the senate cities and town:
committee hearing.
The referendum, he said, came al
a time the whole city was prejudiceo
against the personnel of its govern
ment. He deplored this fysteria'
| for q change in government.
Bill Is Called Wrong
at is wrong, damnable that a
thing like this should Re before US
/ here" he shouted, advancing down
the aisle and gesticulating wildly
TT Is contrary to the principle OF
American government"
He professed to see grave danger
| in the grant of wide powers TO the
commission of seven and predicted
that, under the Indiana constitution
/ which restricts home rule, ''the sys-
tenn is doomed to failure"
as i've minute periods passed, one
senator and then another yielded tc
Clancy and the harrangue con-
tinued, while his opponents tilted
back in their chairs unperturbed
They stified suggestions that Clancy
! be stopped with the reply, Let hin
go. he's not hurting anything"
After thirty-five minutes, Senator
Carl M. Gray of Petersburg. got q
chance on the floor. He had Spoker
previously In support of Sims re-
peal bill But Gray said:
u think We should repeal the en-
tire system, but if we are to have
city manager government. it shoulc
be the best We can make it. In