Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1913 — BILL WOULD OPEN SALOONS ON HOLIDAYS [ARTICLE]

BILL WOULD OPEN SALOONS ON HOLIDAYS

Good Roads Bill is Killed—Oppose the Sunday Theatre Bill—to License Hospitals. Two years of hard labor on the .part of a few Indiana good roads enthusiasts came to nothing Thursday when the house of representatives voted to postpone indefinitely the Hughes good roads bill. Only thirteen members stood behind the measure on the final roll call and the plan for a state highway commission and state aid for road construction and repair was buried under an avalanche of votes. *. Farmer members pf the lower house led the attack on the hill, which was evolved by the Indiana Good Roads association, It will be legal to sell intoxicating liquors on July 4th, New Year's day, Labor day, Washington’s birthday, Memorial day mid Discovery day hereafter if the bill introduced by Senator Taylor becomes a The bill is understood to have the backing of the Brewers’ association. Briefly, it provides that it shall be illegal to sell liquors on Christmas, Thanksgiving day, Sundays or election days. Senator Harlan would compel persons afflicted with tuberculosis to use greater care and to this end has introduced a bill, providing that when they refuse to obey the warnings and orders of the health officers they shall be isolated until such time as the danger of Infection is considered to he Idas. Harlan also has a bill to provide for the regulation of private hospitals of all kinds, placing them under a license and compelling them to make a report to the state board of health twice a year., ...... • -w- T - -- - The blue sky measure introduced early in the session by Senator Harlan was Thursday advanced to second reading witbout -eommenir or amendment. - Indiana churchgoers—Protestant pastors and congregations particularly—are a unit in opposing the Zearing bill which would legalize Sunday theatrical performances and moving picture shows. Dispatches received in Indianapolis from every part of the state tell of church opposition and of the belief of many persons not affiliated with churches that the opening of theatres on Sunday would be against the best interests of the community. ~~