Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1909 — INDIANA REPEAL PASSES HOUSE [ARTICLE]

INDIANA REPEAL PASSES HOUSE

Measure of the Democratic Platform Fails. EXPECT SENATE VICTORY It Is Said a Few of the Republican Members of the Upper House Favor the. Ideas Embodied In the Legislation Proposed, but They Have ed to Make Public Their Ideas. Vote on Compromise Bill Was FiftyTwo to Forty-Four.

Indianapolis, Feb. 12.—The Proctor Tomlinson county local option repeal bill has been passed by the Indiana houSe of representatives. The vote was 52 to 44.

The Klfeckner bill, substituting township and ward local option for county option and understood to be the Democratic platform measure, failed to pass for lack of a constitutional majority of 51. The vote on this bill was 48 to 47.

The passage of the Proctor-Tomlin-son bill followed the hottest debate of the session. It was agreed upon as a compromise measure by the Democratic majority of the house. ThCre were ten Democratic representatives, however, who voted against the bill. Four Republicans voted for it. Champions of the Proctor-Tomlinson compromise bill express confidence that their bill will pass the senate, which is controlled by the Republicans. A few of the Republican senators are said to favor the repeal of the county local option law, but they haye refused to make public their attitude on the Proctor-Tomlinson bill.

Democratic house leaders expect to bring the Kleckner platform bill up for consideration again in the house and, if possible, pass both bills in the senate. The Proctor-Tomlinson bill provides for Incorporated town and city ward local option. It would enforce prohibition in the rural districts. It allows but one saloon to five hundred inhabitants and does away with saloons owned by breweries. The bill increases the present license according to the class of city.