The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08

SOllJ, WHO DECeIliC HluioilpS uOOt
leader.
The senate ratified nominations
made by the Republican majority in
caucus, naming Lelank K. Fishback,
Richmond. secretary; Herman
Douglass. Monticello, assistant sec
rotary: Jerome Brown, Anderson,
principal doorkeeper and Felix
(Star) Brown, Bloomington, post
master.
Following a resolution to appoint
a committee on patronage, Speaker
Myers named Representatives John
NJ Masselink Dem, Vigo), chair
man; j. Henry Monnig Jr. Dem,
Vanderburg), Nathan B. Combs
Dem, Clinton, Fred A. Egan
CDem., Lake., and Charles Y. Foster
(Rep., Hamilton).
To the senste's patronage COM
mittee, Bush named Senators Hart
zell, Alonzo H. Lindley Rep, Foun-
tain, Vermillion and WARREN, and
Glenn r. Slenker rep. Carroll,
Clinton and White.
Lieutenant Governor Bush sound
cd plea for an equitable solution
of the tax problem which found
echo from Senator's Hartzell and
Chambers.
Injustice Is Recognized
Il have no wish to burden you
with a lengthy Discourse" Lieuten-
ant Governor Bush told the senate.
THE injustice of our antiquated
property tax system is SO univer-
sally recognized that any attempt
on the part of the assembly to raise
the property tax levy will be viewed
with hostility.
THE taxpayers will have right
to expect relief from us and will
hold lis to strict account if we fail
them.
Il want to help you solve the
problem of property tax relief and
assure you / will cooperate in
every way.
THE public interests trans
cend all personal or political con-
sideration.
Il trust that the leadership on
both sides of the chamber will ap-
proach the solution of this question
in the spirit of utmost fairness, and
that we lay aside politics and work
together tremendously for the COM
mon good"
Myers, who is the first Democrat
to preside over the lower house
since 1915. took the occasion to de-
liver an address on the sort of lead
ership his party expects to display
in legislative affairs.
THE wisest political action is al
ways reconciliation of differences of
opinion the Speaker declared.
May the opposite political COM
plexion of our legislative bodies be
to the advantage Of the state"
Come at Critical Point
Our peculiar relation at pc
culiar time in the affairs of our
state and nation, said Myers,
should lead us to forget that we
are Democrats and Republicans and
to remember that, first of ALL we are
Americans and citizens of Indiana,
heirs to the fine ideals of those who.
have gone before us. that we should
be champions of the noblest con-
cepts that are with us, now and that
we will be, according to our deeds,
a, help or a hindrance to those who
are going to come after lis.
we come into session at a crit
ical iuncture in the history OF the
world when great social and eco
nornic forces are swirling us about
like tossing ships on a raging sea.
Out of it all there is bound to come,
in due time, the peaceful calm of
new order.
I'VE have but sixty-one days of
session. Every minute of it might
be spent prof1tably doing nothing
more than repeating dead wood and
ill-digested enactmentS from our
statutes. To take up one question
and solve it correctly would be
worth more than 10000 pieces of
hspha3ard half baked legislation
DwelIs Oh Taxation
myers Jlleli uWelJ upon JaAdClOIl,
pointing out that the present prob
lem is both to provide more equit-
able distribution of the tax burden
and to reduce governmental expen-
ditures.
Instead of making the public
treasury a trough at which hogs
feed, let us make it granary to
sustain and nourish the spirit of
the state" he advised.
1T takes nothing but three cheers
from the recipients and a favorable
roll call to add lot of Jobs to the
pay roll and another burden to the
taxpayers"
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