Since early January, Indiana's Governor George North Craig and the followers of Indiana's U.S Senator William Ezra Jenner have been locked in a furious battle in the state's General Assembly (TIME, March 7). Feuding bitterly over control of the Hoosier G.O.P., the Craig and Jenner factions concentrated this year on the issue of toll roads. Jenner forces tried to push through a bill to hamstring toll-road construction, thereby hamstringing the governor's political power and patronage. Last week, after stopping its clocks and stalling for 28 hours and 11 minutes beyond the 61-day constitutional limit on the...
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