The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-16
TAX SALE BILL
IS DELAYED AS
SENATE QUITS
House Machinery Upset as
Townsend Fails to
Sign Measures.
POLL CHANGE AFFECTED
Governor Waits in Vain to
Approve Acts; Hearings
Held Today.


ate until 10 tomorrow without the
Lieutenant Governor afflxing his
signature to three important emer-
gency administration measures, to-
day blocked the legislative machin-.
cry and threw the House into tenn
porary confusion.
While the House OF Representa-
tives stood by to receive the en-
rolled bills extending the tax MORT
forum bill and two measures clari-
flying the election law to clear The
way for the special election in the
Second Congressional District, the
Senate adjourned. The House also
adjourned until 10 Thursday.
There vas then no way to have
the three bills signed and forwarded
to tie House and the Governor
waited the receipt of the measures
for his consideration.
Eighteen Bills Are Offered
The tax moratorium bill, which
will prevent sale of properties for
delinquent taxes in 1885 and extend
through 1886 the moratorium to de-
linquent owners who pay taxes due
in 1885, must become a law this
week to prevent advertising of prop
critics for sale.
Eighteen measures were intro
duced in both houses, of which ID
were in the House. Committees this
afternoon we're to hold hearings on
pending measures. Calendars to-
morrow were expected to show that
many minor 6ills, including the
conservation measures, were ready
for adoption.
Friction developed on a report of
the County and Township Business
Committee concerning S. B. 13, an
act authorizing a tax levy by
municipalities to pay obligations
where funds are tied up in defunct
banks.
The Republican minority report
sought to restrain municipalities
from making the levy should it
cause the $1.50 maximum levy law
to be exceeded. However, the Ser
ate concurred in the majority re-
port atJer a DrleI SKlrmlSn.
Measures in House
Important bills introduced in the
House today include:
Prohibiting opposition to political
candidates on account of their race
or religion and requiring identif1-
cation of campaign literature by
publishing the names of the authors,
offered by Rep. Henry j. Richard
son Jr. Cd, Indpls); Requiring poor
persons to do relief work for tax
payers before becoming eligible for
aid from poor overseers; Prohibiting
judgments against defendants when
proceeds from mortgage foreclosures
are less than the amount of the
mortgages. excepting where mort
cages have been obtained through
fraud and misrepresentation, and
providing for the condemnation of
rights or way for private persons
whose lands are shut off from pub
lie highways by reason of stream
Strengthening or ditch construction.
Bank Measure Offered
A measure to permit govern
mental units having deposits frozen
in defunct banks or trust companies
to sell the deposits for cash after
appraisal of values by two free
holders was offered in the Senate.
Judiciary B Committee will ur.an-
imouSly report H. B. 81, which
amends the public utility law to
prohibit utility firms from engag-
ing in a subsidiary business or SELL
ing merchandise other than by
products, to the House of Repre-
SentativeS tomorrow.
Majority members of the Senate
caucused to consider re-establish-
ment of the omnibus system for get
ting petty legislation out of the way
The method, used extensively in the
Legislature ten years ago, is to group
bills of a similar nature on third
reading and pass them on one roll
call.
The present move is for DISPOSE
ton of a group of conservation bills
on revision of the fish and game
laws.
No action was taken, but it was
apparent from the expression of
opinion from various Senators that |
adoption of an omnibus motion plan |
is improbable
Members of the roads committees
of both Houses held a joint meet |
ing yesterday and were told by |
State Highway Commission mem
bers that the commission must bor-
row S1,000,000 July l in order to
take advantage of Federal grants,
and must have additional revenue,
if there is to be further expansion
of the states road system.