Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1917 — WHEATFIELD STILL WET [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD STILL WET

NOT YET DECIDED WHETHER REMONSTRANCE WILL BE GOOD OR NOT. The county commissioners met in special session here Saturday and took up • the matter of the demonstrance against the saloon business in Wheatfield township. There was a representative here from the Anti-Saloon League, Attorney Minton. Attorneys Abraham Halleck, W. H. Parkison and John A. Dunlap represented Mr. James Anderson, who has an application filed with the county board of commissioners for a renewal of his license until April, 1913, the time at which the prohibition law goes into effect. Mr. Anderson’s attorneys took the position that the law passed by the last legislature granting to women the right to vote is unconstitutional. If the women who signed the remonstrance are not counted the remonstrance fails, for not enough male votes are on the petition. Attorney Minton argued that the law was constitutional, but the board did not seem to be satisfied and the matter was set for hearing for the July term. In the meantime the commissioners will consult other legal authority. It is understood that one of the commissioners favors the granting of the remonstrance, which would put the saloon out of bus : ness. One is against the remonstrance and the. third, who will have the deciding vote, wants further legal advice.