Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1917 — Wets Win Victory In Illinois Legislature. [ARTICLE]

Wets Win Victory In Illinois Legislature.

Illinois wets wpn a decisive victory in the Illinois legislature. They killed the state-wide prohibition referendum bill, slew the residential district local option bill and the bone dry anti-shipping bill that would have prohibited the shipments of liquor into anti-saloon townships, and even refused to create a dry zone around the Dixon epileptic colony. The drys still have a county option bill to be introduced. Had it been on the calendar Wednesday it probably would have been slaughtered right along with the rest of thb measures. The probabilities are that there will be no further attempt at this session to enact either wet or dry legislation. ..- ' _