. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . donment of the state improve-ment idea, there came a great increase of large private corporations, fortransportation and other purposes, and there were some legislators whowanted something more than the public welfare in compensation fortheir votes. Business interests found that this was an unduly expensivemode of incorporation, and when business interests want a change, con- 2 Chamberlains Gazetteer, pp. 122-3. 438 INDIANA AND INDIANANS servatisin usually melts away quite rapidly. But the
. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . donment of the state improve-ment idea, there came a great increase of large private corporations, fortransportation and other purposes, and there were some legislators whowanted something more than the public welfare in compensation fortheir votes. Business interests found that this was an unduly expensivemode of incorporation, and when business interests want a change, con- 2 Chamberlains Gazetteer, pp. 122-3. 438 INDIANA AND INDIANANS servatisin usually melts away quite rapidly. But the movemeut for anew constitution was not based wholly on selfish interests. There wasone demand that was wholly fi-om considerations of public welfare, andthat was the call for a better system of public schools, which was Statewide. The common accounts of this school movement might lead one tosuppose that it was entirely the work of Caleb Mills, but the actualfacts, which will be presented in a later chapter, will show that while hewas a factor in it, there were many others who were on the ground from. The Governobs Mansion in the Circle(From an old cut) the beginning, and whose just claim for recognition for service in thisline have been sadly overlooked. The abolition of annual .sessions of the legislature had been calledfor ever since 1823, but the demand for biennial sessions, like that forthe abolition of special and local legislation, did not appeal strongly tothe legislators, who had the initiation of the process of is a notable sameness in the make-up of the earlier legislatures ofIndiana, many of the members being returned for session after was obviously a pleasant duty for a citizen who enjoyed political lifeto go to the capital for the winter, with expenses covered, enjoy theassociation with all the political leaders of the State, and participatein tlie history-making of the occasion. Why should they favor any move-ment to lessen their prerog
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