Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1917 — PROHIBITION BILL PASSED BY HOUSE [ARTICLE]

PROHIBITION BILL PASSED BY HOUSE

Representatives Vote on Wright Measure 70 to 28 NOW GOES TO THE SENATE Provides That It Shall Be Unlawful to Manufacture, Sell or Give Away Intoxicating liquor. Indiana polls, Ja n. 2(1.—-The Wright state-wide prohibition hill was passed by the house by a vote of 70 to 28. Two members did not vote. Fifty-two Republicans and 18 Democrats voted for the bill and 12' Republicans and 16 ■/ Democrats voted against It. The bill as it was passed by the house ami sent to the senate provides that after January 1, 1918, “it shall be unlawful for aAy person to manufacture, sell, barter, exchange, give away, furnish or otherwise dispose of any intoxicating liquor, or to keep any intoxicating liquor, with Intent to sell, barter, exchange, give away, furnish or otherwise dispose of the same, except as in this act provided.” For violation of that section of the proposed law, the following penalties are provided: A flne of “not less than SIOO and not more than SSOO, and Imprisonment in the county Jail for not less than 30 days nor more than six months, for the first offense, and shall be fined not less than S2OO nor more than SSOO and imprisonment in the county jail not less than sixty days nor more than six months for the second or any subsequent offense.’' The measure, as printed, would not prohibit the manufacture of wine or cider for the private consumption of any individual, by that individual. It further would not prohibit the same of pure grain alcohol for medicinal, scientific or mechanical purpose, or wine for sacramental purpose, or the manufacture and sale of denatured alcohol. The right is given Wholesale druggists to sell liquors in quantities of not less than one gallon at a time to any registered pharmacist, holding such permit, as is provided under the law, or to hospital officers and medical col- „ leges.

The bill continues: “Nor shall this act be construed to prohibit a person from giving intoxicating liquor to ft guest in his own home, which is not a place of public resort, or to prohibit a registered pharmacist, if licensed and bonded as provided in tills act, from selling certain intoxicating liquor for medicinal purposes, upon the prescription of a licensed physician, or for sacramental purposes, upon the order of a clergyman, or from selling alcohol for medicinal or chemical purposes only, as herein provided.” Pharmacists desiring to sell liquor are required to take out a permit from the clerk of the circuit court annually. The state board of pharmacy or the court lias Jurisdiction, on petition of five voters from a township to cancel such pharamacWs permit, after a hearing, if it is shown he is soiling the liquor for use*>s a beverage. Removal of all stocks of liquors, except those provided for under the special permits, must he accomplished within ten days after the law goes into effect. From the best obtainable information through the means of personal interviews and such othor-Information as is

at hand, persons, who have studied the senate say that the lineup in that body oh the prohibition bill will probably be as follows: Wet —Bird, English, Erskine, Grants Hazen, Hirsch, Kinder, Kolsem, Laney, (Nejdl, Hetherford, VanAuken, Wolfson, Smith, Elsner, Thornton, Reser, Chambers —18. Dry—Armstrong, Beardsley, Bracken, Dobyns, Dorrell, Gemmill, Janies, McConaha, McCray, McKinley, Maston, Mercer, Negley, Norman, Robinson, Signs, Simmons, Spann, Summers, White, Hudgins, Metzger, Porter, Humphreys —24. fooubtful Culbertson, Hagerty, Hemphill, Jackson, Fleming, Reidelbach, Lanz —7. They say there is some question about Senator English voting against the bill because he represents Hamilton, Marion and Hendricks counties and Hamilton jand_Hendricks and all of Marion county, outside of Indianapolis. already are dry. A bill has been introduced to give all cities in the state the right to determine by election whether they prefer to retain the present form of city government or adopt the commission or commission manager form. Bills have been Introduced to prevent injunctions in labor disputes unless there has been a violation of an Indiana law'; to create a state bureau of agriculture; to combine voters’ registration and primaries on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May; to provide for an economy survey of all state institutions; for an eight-hour day for female workers; <or 70-cent gas in third-class cities; to .extend the pure drug laws to apply to physicians and peddlers; to require aU road taxes to be paid in cash.