PROTECTING THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.
Mr. BROWN, by consent, introduced a bill [S. 154] to protect freedom of election to employes of manufacturing establishments and prescribing punishment for the violation thereof.
It is as follows:
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana-Section 1. That whoever having the control of or being the managers, proprietors or agents of any manufacturing establishments in this State, having more than sixty workmen in their employ, shall neglect or refuse to close such establishments from the hour of 12 o'clock noon lo 6 o'clock of the evening of the day of the general elections held on Tuesday after the first Mon- day in November, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than $100 nor more than $1,000; to which may be added imprisonment for not more than sixty (days, and disfranchisement for any determinate period.
Sec. 2. And whoever having the control of or being such proprietors, agents or managers afore- said, shall, upon the day of the general election held on Tuesday after the first Monday in November in any year, send their employes in squads, under the charge of the agents or foremen of such manufacturing establishments, to the polls for the purpose of voting, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished in the same manner and to the same extent as provided for in the first section of this enactment.
