Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1912 — Saloonists Win Point. [ARTICLE]

Saloonists Win Point.

Hammond. May 10—Jn the war between the city of Gary and its two hundred saloons whereby the city sought to collect five hundred dollars license fee and the city council legislated that the saloon men need only pay a two hundred dollar license, Judge Kopelke in the Hammond superior court mandated City Comptroller A. P. Mellon to accept two hundred dollars license, holding that the state gave the municipal legislature, the city council, the right to change the amount of the fee to suit the changing local requirement. Each saloon man will also begin individual mandamus proceedings based on the Kapeke ruling.