Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1917 — Action On State Wide Prohibition Expected Monday. [ARTICLE]

Action On State Wide Prohibition Expected Monday.

Petitions to the state legislature asking that state wide prohibition be passed, and bearing the signatures of more than 200,000 Indianians, were presented to the House and Senate Friday. Each member of the House and Senate was given th petition that bore the names of the voters in his particular district. The House committee on ptiblic morals reported favorably on the bill, which /Went to the second reading Friday, and it is expected that on next Monday the bill will be advanced to. the third reading and put on its passage te the House. There seems to be little doubt about the bill getting the required number of votes to carry in the House, but its friends are not so sure about the senate. A, few amendments- to the bill giving the druggists the right to sell alcohol under specified conditions and providing that manufacturing chemists may continue their enterprise without violation of the law were accepted by the* House without opposition.