The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-27
SENATE FACES
jam OF BILLS
IN LAST WEEK
important Measures Will Be
Showed Through by
Administration.
REPEAL DRAFT is UP
Teacher Tenure Fight Will
Be Resumed; Utilities
Clash Due.

A crowded calendar of important
measures faced by the Indiana
senate today, as it reconvened for
the last week of the Seventy-eighth
general assembly.
Baked in their efforts to pass
several important bills under sus-
hDension of rules late last week,
Democratic leaders in the senate
today were planning to call down
the measure setting up machinery
for Indiana voters to express them
selves on repeal of the eighteenth
amendment.
This bill was one of those caught
in the revolt against wholesale Sus-
pension of rules, the first setback
received by the McNutt men since
the session opened.
Concessions Are Made
Ultimate passage of the conven-
ton measure, however, is predicted
by a large majority, as concessions
over the number of delegates have
been made by both wet and dry
senators.
In its present form. the bill pro-
vides for Ala delegates, one from
each county and one for each TO-
600 population.
A new departure in the states
financial business, provided in a bill
Which already has passed the lover
house, was to reach the senate today
for consideration. The bill allows
the Governor, through his treasury
department, to borrow money for
four-year periods and to levy neces-
Sary taxes to repay the looms.
1t also gives the department the
power to fix all state tax levies, now
invested in the state tax board along
with the Governor and the auditor.
Unless the Governors overwhelming
voting strength in the senate shows
additional signs of revolt, this bill,
along with all other administration
measures, will be approved early this
week.
Teacher Tenure Up
Teacher tenure again was to come
before the senate on a report of the
conference committee of the two
houses to reconcile amendments.
AS amended in the house. the bill
eliminates tenure for township
teachers, similar to the senate meas
ure. But retirement features. with
new rules concerning contracts,
await approval of the senate.
Several tax measures relating to
intanglibles also will be in the SEN
ate today, already having passed the
house. These bills bear the adj
ministration stamp and are steps in
the program favored by Governor
Paul V. McNutt.
Disposal of the municipal utilities
bill, pending in the senate for a
week, is cause of worry on the
part Of administration senators. AS
approved by the house, the bill is
meeting with much objection from
cities already owning utility plants.
Utilities Watch Carefully
Amendments providing that cities
may advance small percentage of
the funds necessary to acquire or
construct plant are under con,
sideration. Other proposed changes
would permit issuance of -liqui-
dating bonds up to one-third of the
cost, and would postpone taxing
municipal plants until 1885, payable
in 1886.
This measure is being watched
closely by the utility lobby and is
expected to be the cause of sharp
debate when it is brought before
the senate for amendment.
Waking up to import of the dra-
matte resignation OF Senator Chester
A. Perkins Dem, South BenO.
which occurred Saturday morning.
the senate, prior to adjournment
late Saturday evening, passed
resolution expressing regret.
At the time, the only notice given
to Perkins action was an of-hand
"ta-ta" from Senator Anderson
Ketchum Dem, Greensburg). DEM
ocratic floor leader who was in the
chair when Perkins rendered his
resignation and walked cut of the
chamber to end a political career
that began in 1917,