Churches.— The principal religious denom inations of Indiana in the order of their strength are the Methodists, Roman Catholics, Disciples or Christians, Baptist, Presbyterians, United Brethren, and Lutherans.
Charitable and Penal The State maintains 10 charitable and six penal in stitutions, at an annual cost • of over $1,500,000. Of the former five are hospitals for the insane located respectively at Indianapolis, Logansport, Richmond, Evansville and North Madison. These contain in varying numbers about 5,000 inmates. The annual cost of maintenance is about $1,025,000, or $205 per capita. The other charitable institutions are the School for the Blind, Indianapolis, inmates 121, per capita cost $358.96; School for the Deaf, Indianapolis, in mates 298, per capita cost $314; Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, Knightstown, inmates 448, per capita cost $251; Soldiers Home, Lafayette, inmates 909, per capita cost $216; School for Feeble-Minded, Fort Wayne, in mates 1,263, per capita cost $148; Village for Epileptics, New Castle, inmates 218, per capita cost $263.69; Tuberculosis Hospital, Rockville, inmates 119, per capita cost $468. The correct ional institutions are the State Prison. Michigan City, inmates 1,158, per capita cost, $152, earn ings, $67,438; Indiana Reformatory,Jefferson ville, inmates 1,004, per capita cost $208, earn ings $82,568; Women's Prison, inmates 116, per capita cost $257, earnings $4,795 ; Girls' School, Clermont, inmates 288, per capita cost $278, earnings $119; Boys' School, Plainfield, in mates 552, per capita cost $215, earnings $939.
The legislature of 1913 made provision for a State farm, for male offenders not felons, and a tract of 1,584 acres was purchased near Put namville, in Putnam County. In September 1915, there were 604 prisoners at the farm and institution nstitution was recognized as on a success ful footing. The Robert W. Long Hospital at Indianapolis, established under a bequest to the State by Doctor Long, was opened 15 June 1914. It has a State appropriation of $50,000 a year, in addition to receipts front pay patients. The State has the convict-contract-labor system, but the legislature of 1909 provided for its abolition in 1920. The convict labor is all done
within the prisons. The State has the indeter minate sentence system with commutation of time for good behavior. • In addition to the State institutions each county maintains a poor asylum. In these, and the Marion County asy lum for the incurable insane,, there is an annual population of about 3,500 inmates, of whom about two-thirds are men and one-third women. Of these inmates some are classed as insane and others feeble-minded. There are in the State 33 orphans' homes, in which there are annually about 1,800 inmates, of whom 1,300 are boys and 500 girls. At the same time the Board of State Charities reports 2,989 orphan children maintained in private homes, without public ex pense.
State Government.— The elective State offi ces are held for periods of two years, with eligibility restricted to four years in any period of six years, except as to the governor, lieu tenant-governor and geologist, whose terms are four years. No one is eligible to the office of governor or lieutenant-governor for more than four years in any of eight years. The governor's salary is $5,000, with an allowance of $1,800 for house rent. The governor's veto power extends to all laws passed by the legis lature,. but the veto may be overthrown by a majority vote in both houses; The legislature meets once in two years and may be called in special session by the governor; regular ses sions are limited to 60 days and special sessions to 40 days. The Senate is composed of 50 mem bers elected for four years each, and the house of 100 members elected for two years each. The members receive $6 a day while in session, and $5 for each 25 miles traveled in reaching the capital and returning home. The State is required to be redistricted for legislative purposes every six years. The pre sent Constitution was adopted in 1851, and is very generally considered unsatisfactory, es pecially as to legislative representation and the location of the appointing power. It can be amended only by the majority vote of both houses of two consecutive legislatures, followed by a majority vote of the electors of the State.