Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1917 — LIQUOR FORCES ARE DYING HARD [ARTICLE]

LIQUOR FORCES ARE DYING HARD

Senate Passes Measure Which Would Perinit the Makiiig of Liquor In State by Breweries Almost without a dissenting vote, Tuesday afternoon the state Senate passed the Hemphill measure which would permit the brewers and distillers in Indiana to continue the making of intoxicants indefinitely under state supervision for sales in wet states. The bill has the aproval of many p( the leading and prominent business men who want to give the brewers and distillers an o'jpo v tunity to save their property. If the bill, which has been favored becomes a law, a brewer or distiller may pay the state license fee of $4,000 annually and continue in the manufacturing business as long as he does not attempt to sell in this or any other dry state. The passing of the bill so easily in the Senate makes it look as if it would get by the House also, but there is some question whether or not Governor Goodrich will attach his signature to it. If the bill becomes a law along with the one recently presented by Senator Kinder, of Lake county permitting the issuance of liquor licenses for the fractional parts of the year And which would allow all the saloon men of the state to operate until April 2, it looks as if Indiana would not be quite so dry as it first appeared. The liquor forces are dying hard and present indications are that they are going to gain some ground during the present legislature, knowing that they are completely lost if they do not act quickly. Both of the proposed bills are bad ones and would be doing the dry forces of the state, who made such a fight to put the state in the dry ranks, an injustice. How the bills can be legislated through, when the sentiment of the people of the state is so against the manufacture of the state,., a. gs li manufacture of liquors within the confines of the state, is a mystery.

Nice juicy oranges. 16 cents per dozen, Saturday, at Rowen’s Grocery. Phqne 202. Over one hundred more men were arrested in conection with the vote irregularities last fall. United States marshals put in their appearance at Evansville Wednesday and found many ready to give themselves up. Evansville was one of the four cities named recently.