Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1913 — Decision of Judge Becker Restores Gary Saloon Licenses. [ARTICLE]

Decision of Judge Becker Restores Gary Saloon Licenses.

Judge Becker, >pt the superior court at Hammond, Saturday decided the test case of the licenses of 169 Gary saloonkeepers in favor of the saloon men. The effect of the decision is to sustain the saloonkeepers in their contention that the original ordinance fixing the license fee in the city of Gary at SSOO is null and void. It relieves them of any danger of forfeiture of the licenses under which they are, operating. Judge Becker’s ruling was a verbal one. In it he held that the SSOO ordinance passed by the city of Gary was illegal because it divided the payment of the new license fee into two installments; that it was not passed within the period prescribed by the Proctor law, and that it was not properly published within' the period prescribed by the general law.