Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1911 — GOVERNOR SIGNED OPTION LAW FRIDAY AFTERNOON. [ARTICLE]

GOVERNOR SIGNED OPTION LAW FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

Proctor Measure Became a Law and All Territory Will Be “Wet” as Two-Year Periods Expire.. Governor Marshall signed the Proctor platform township and city option bill Friday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock in the presence of his secretary, Mark Thistlethwaite, and Burt New, legal clerk. The bill was signed in the Governor’s office with a common steel pea. the one used by the Governor for all oth4r purposes, and will not be presented to the Democratic Editorial Association or any other association. There was no demonstration of any kind. The bill was brought to the Governor’s office early in the afiernoon and deposited by Mr. Thistlethwaite in the executive safe, where it was kept until taken to the Governor a short time later. Although there were errors in the original copy of the Proctor option bill, it was / held in the Senate after having been enrolled the second time because of the* - absence of any provision for determining the number of voters in the territory outside a city when ail of the city is not whhin one township. Whether to ask the unanimous consent of the General Assembly to change the bill, hold up the first bill and start a new bill through State Legislature, or amend the original bill, was discussed by the Governor with Senator Stotsenburg, Senator Fleming and Senator Kistler. Finally, the last course was adopted, but the Governor decided to withhold his signature until the amendment was drafted in a party caucus. The amendment to correct the defect in the bill was drafted Thursday and will be introduced by Senator Proctor in the senate. The amendatory bill is entitled: “A bill for an act to amend Sec, 3 of an act entitled (here follows the title of gency. - , the Proctor option law), approved Feb. 3, 1911, and declaring an emergency.”