Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1917 — OUR SENATOR IS STILL HANGING ON [ARTICLE]

OUR SENATOR IS STILL HANGING ON

rDwight Kinder Proposes Two New Bins* WniCii Wouiu l.eip saiOons In Indiana. Senator Dwight Kinder, of Lake county, who represents this county in the senate, has not yet given up entirely to the drys and has .come forth with two new bills, through which he hopes to gain the saloon forces in Indiana a little leeway. Senator Kinder, it will be remembered, was probably the most ardent supporter of the wets in the recent prohibition fight and one of the eleven who voted against the bill. The two new bills presented by iKnder, which have been brought before the senate, are: First: To permit the board of county commissioners to issue liquor-.li-censes for part of the year. Second: A provision to make th» limit of township school tuition levy SI.OO on each SIOO of property valuation. The first bill further provides that all licenses issues after April 2, 1917, shall terminate April 1, 1918. The present township tuition tax limit is fifty cents on each thousand dollars of property valuation. State liquor license fees now go to the tuition fund. ... . The recent overwhelming defeat of the wets should -servo —to quiet, the wets for some time, but this seems not to be the case and there are still a few determined ones who have not yet given up. The defeat rankles and every possible effort during the present legislature will be made to gam some leeway for jhe saloons and not put them entirelv out of business before adjournment day. The bills as presented by Senator Kinder will probably make but little headway if any. .Probably the senator realizes this as well as anybody and it is probably only a move on his part to gain some consideration from the w r ets at the next meeting of the legislature, and not with thei dea of getting any results at this time. The senate bill Friday, 26 to 17, requiring autos and bicycles to stop six feet frornan unloading street car "or interurban and remain there until passengers are alighted.