Indiana Solons Finish Labors on Tax Reform and Prohibition
The Indiana General Assembly adjourned after a busy session that ratified the national prohibition amendment and passed a presidential woman suffrage bill along with a state highway commission bill. Governor Goodrich has until Saturday to sign or veto the remaining measures, including the tax reform bill. Numerous acts signed cover county seats, schools, libraries, roads, and public welfare, with many bills awaiting gubernatorial action.
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Indianapolis
Sixty-First General Assembly of
Indiana
Senate
State Highway Commission
Goodrich
Miltenberger
Noll
Legislative bill listing signatures of passed measures
A record lists multiple bills passed by both houses before adjournment, detailing authorizations for state hospitals, road and school funding, tax and election law changes, and various amendments. It notes bills on highway improvements, public works, teachers, park rules, and county and city governance, awaiting the governor's action.
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Senate
House
Kingsbury
Cann
Newby
Smith
Swain
State House
Harris
Lowe
Governor Returns Bills From Senate for Irregularities
Governor Goodrich sent back a long list of bills saying they came to him irregularly and lacked proper receipting. He reserves right to accept any later. Several items cover election official pay, railroad crossings, cattle tuberculosis control, veterans admissions, optometry board composition, farm home funding, German language in high school, and various county, city, and school matters.
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Senate
Goodrich
Miltenberger
Barker of
Boone
Axbey
Swain
Bracken
van Auken
Metzger
Harris
Tuthilli
Williamson
Madison
Roenac
Alexandria
Morgan
Rowbottom
Givan
Marion
Johnson
Marion County
Indiana towns report growth, roads, livestock and war era plans
Lake Wawasee to see large real estate purchases by Gary capitalists. Maple sugar output to rise in Lawrenceburg. Fort Wayne district Methodist holds 40 churches meeting. East Columbus school tour to grand jury for cigarette inquiry. Indiana ready to fund $15 million highway program with fed aid. Plainfield notary Isaac A Johnson notes 12th commission. New York New Jersey export packing firms form association led by Terre Haute’s Powers as president. Seymour cantaloupes shipped by motor trucks. Goodrich backs livestock growers meeting in Indianapolis. whisky sentences for violators across Indiana. Terre Haute coal miners idled at 10,000. Aurora dairy report with fat tests and prices. Bloomington sour syrup from 1919 crop. Anderson city market plan. Marion National Military Home denials. Danville to meet Chicago & Eastern Illinois for cooperative advertising. Debs proclaims innocence comment. foreign trade bureau proposed in Indianapolis. Liberty loan anticipations quotas and bank subscription rules. Weldon Tobrocke returns from war. pensions granted to several Indiana residents. Rainbow division to Lemans and home by late April. influenza persists in several counties. Martinsburg schools closed by epidemic. Shelby county wheat prospects bright.
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Posey
Abrams
Boards of Public Works
Willamson
Winesburg
Mendenhall
Morgan
Davis
Muensterman
Vanderburg
Cooper
State Board
Cann
Miltenberger
Ratts
Hudgins
James
Kline
Grant
Lake County
Munton
Strode
Elsner
Decker
Wells County
Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit
Blackford County
Boone
State Bureau of Statistics
Douglass
Maier
Posey County
Eleventh Judicial Circuit
Bainum
Smith
James T. Ford
Pulaski County
Duffy
Indiana State
Laney
Negley
Wabash River
Cass County
Metzger
Hepler
Alldredge
Dobyns
Southworth
Commissioner of Insurance
Houston
Noble
Lagrange
Boards of Commissioners
Huntington
Whitley
van Auken
Employment Commission of
Indiana
Indiana Free Employment Service
State Charter Board
Furnas
Public Service Commission
Vesey
State Board of Education
Dailey
Jinnett
National Guardsmen
Butler
McMaster
County Recorder
Hamilton
Southard
Symons
Tuthill
Ail Lloyds Insurance
Harris
Swain
Homan
Willis of
Lagrange and Steuben
de Hoffman
Laughlin
Kessler
Miami County
Goshen
Lake Wawasee
Gary
Lawrenceburg
Decatur
Fort Wayne
Allen
Adams
Wells
Dekalb
Steuben
Thomas Nicholson
Chicago
Columbus
Charles FE
Gosch
Matt Shaw
State Highway Commission
Plainfield
Igaac
A. Johnson
New York
Europe
I. Powers
The
Home Packing Company of
Terre Haute
M. Mannheim
Jivinsville
Seymour
Jackson County
Growers’ Association
Indianapolis
James P. Goodrich
Hammond
AA. B. Anderson
Anderson
James Kowal
Steve Naosha
Mike Yellisch
United Mine Workers of America
Aurora
Dearborn
Clarence C. Madison
Bloomington
Marion
National Military Home
A. B. Crampton
Chambers of Commerce
Danville
Evansville
Vincennes
Chicago & Eastern Ilinois
Legislative Council of Indiana
Edward Franklin White
Legislative Council
Supreme Court
Eugene V. Debs
United States Supreme Court
Washington
Victory Liberty Loan
Weldon Tobrocke
Eighteenth Infantry
Tobrocke
Washington, D. C
Maud Malott
Wabash
Rosa A. Dovel
Crawfordsville
William F. Chapman
Cloverdale
Caroline Patterson
Pendleton
Fannie E. Shepard
Brownstown
Sarah A. Leath
Veedersburg
Sophia Guthrie
Elizabeth VV. Atwater
Laporte
Forty-second
Rainbow Division
Rhine
Germany
Lemans
France
War Department
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