Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1917 — NO MORE BOOZE ON DINING GARS [ARTICLE]

NO MORE BOOZE ON DINING GARS

If Representative Wood’s Bill Becomes a Law HARD ON SOME PASSENGERS ♦ Drinking of Joy Water on Elaborate Dining Palate Cars Would Become Only a Lingering Memory. Representative W ; L. Wood of Parr is fathering a bill in the state legislature to prohibit the selfing of intoxicating liquors on the tailroads of Indiana after the expiration of the present licenses. Liquors are now sold on dining cars of the railroads of the state, but the passage of Mr. Wood’s bill will hereafter stop, such traffic, and is another move in the gradual “drying up’* of our state.

It is generally hoped by the people of Indiana that .a state-wide prohibition law will be enacted by the present legislature, but many of the law-makers will side-step the proposition, it is said, when it Is put up squarely to them, not wishing to offend their friends, the liquor interests and its offsprings. There seems to 'be a determined .bunch Corydon to unload the old capitol building on to the state, and the matter has been up at each session for some years. It has again eome up, and the senate finance committee has .decided to report favorably on the purchase of this junk. The old, building and grounds are worth about 30 cents, but it is proposed to pay $60,000, and it would then cost the state perhaps 'llo,ooo a year to look after it and keep the old hulk in repair.

Among the more important bills to readers of The Democrat that have been introduced thus far, are: House bill 31, providing for repeal of stallion enrollment law and the registration of stallions in counties, also reducing the fee from* $3 to sl, fees to go to county road fund. House bill 23, providing for submission of the question of building and maintaining county hospitals to the voters of county instead of ordering building of same on petition. House bill 33, prohibiting others than persons raising them to butcher calves under the age of twelve months and prohibiting the sale of calves of less than one year to be butchered. House bill 41, providing for the creation of a state highway commission of three members and levying one-fourth of a mill tax for the expenses of the body. House bill 50, that a majority of affected property owners may successfully remonstrate against a drain, and that the question cannot then come up again for two years. House bill 45, to exempt from taxation household goods to the extent of S2OO. House bill 54, to protect quail of Indiana for three years by a closed "-season.