The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-14
SENATE HOPES
TO FINISH ITS
WORK TUESDAY
Session Resumed Today
After Partisan WrangIe
Ends Night Meeting.
END COMES SUDDENLY
Idle House Awaits Action
by Upper Body on State
Welfare Bill.

Unlikely to finish it's work before
Tuesday, the Indiana Senate con-
vened at 10 this morning to finish
it's public welfare bill deliberations,
interrupted last night by partisan
wrangle that brought sudden end
to the night session.
The House of Representatives, it's
work virtually completed, is stand
ing by until the Senate finishes.
The House also was to convene at
10, but probably for only few
minutes.
Sudden conclusion of last nights
Senate session came after Senator
Bruce 0. Lane (R., Bainbridge)
sought to amend the bill to relieve
the counties of all social security
cost. He had asked Senate
stenograpber to take down his re-
marks.
Condemns Burden on Counties
Condemning the burden laid on
the counties by the social security
legislation, Senator Lane remarked
he was surprised the farmers hadn't
staged the same sort of demonstra-
ton against the state administration
as that put on last Wednesday by
the retailers.
He demanded a reduction in the
number of state employees.
I've never seen anything like it,
said Senator Lane, unless it would
be on WPA jobs where they lean on
spades and smoke. But here, they
sit IN swivel chairs and smoke
Called Political Chicanery"
Senator William Fitzgerald 3D..
North Vermont, first ascertaining if
Senator Lane had ordered his re-
marks taken down by the stenog-
rapher, angrily asserted.
That's the cheapest bit of DO
lltical chicanery I ever saw" He
added other remarks about what he
termed Senator Lanes political
gestures" and the Senate was
thrown into a turmoil when Senator
Lanes Republican colleagues came
to his defense. $500.
Repeatedly demanding recogni-
ton from Senator Jacob Weiss Cd.
Indianapolis), then presiding, and
failing to obtain it, Senator William
E. Jenner (R., Paoli), invoked the
Senate rule against one Senator's
impunging the motives of another.
Senator I, Floyd CARROT, Battle
Ground, minority floor leader, sup
ported him as Senator Lane, retired,
flushed and angry, to his seat.
Amendment Is Beaten
After Senator Weiss restored or
der, Senator Lanes amendment
was beaten 29-10 Senator Thomas
A. Hendricks 3D., Indianapolis
moved adjournment and obtained
it, although the majority had in
tended to continue reading the well
fare bill by sections.
Today the Senate was to make
another change in the bill relating
to handling of poor relief by town
ship trustees.
Although other majority mem
bers assured him the bill, as it
stood, does not contemplate re-
moval of poor relief from township
trustees, Senator Claude Mcbride
Cd, Jeffersonville), obtained an
amendment yesterday which ex-
pressly preserves the trustees right.
Reported Distasteful to McNutt
The change was said to have been
distasteful to Gov. McNutt because
its insertion in the welfare bills
definitions might prevent transfer
of the Governors Unemployment
Relief Commission to the proposed
State Welfare Board.
Accordingly, majority members
are expected to remove the amend
ment today, but to compromise with
Senator Mcbride and other home
rule adherents by writing in a new
section at the end of the bill which
would have the same effect as the
amendment inserted yesterday.
There still is a possibility trat
the special session may be ad-
journed tonight, but it is regarded
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