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COOilTY QPIIQII LAW WAS SAVED III THE SENATE Great Fight Came to an End Late Yesterday Afternoon . When Enacting Clause Was : Stricken Out of Bill. OPTIONISTS TRIUMPH BY VOTE OF 26 TO 23 Senator Wood Causes Great Surprise by Voting With His

Party to Kill the Proctor epeal Bill.. Palladium Bureau, . Indianapolis, March 3. . The county option law stands. The only possible chance of repealing it was defeated in the senate yesterday afternoon, when the Tomlinson bill was killed by a vote of 26 to 23, to strike out the enacting clause. The vote on this question was: . AyesBland, Bowser, Brady, Cox, Crumpacker, Gonnerman, Halleck, H Lt. Hanna, George L. Hanna, Hawkins, Higglns, Kane, KImmel, Kirkman, Kling, Lambert, McCallum, McCarty, Mattlngly, Moore, Orndorf, Pearson, Springer, Strange, Tllden, Wood; to tal, 26. McCarty and Tilden are dem ocrats. .'-.'--:, Noes-Beal, Bens, Bingham, Clark, Durre, Farrell, Fleming, Grube, Harlad, Kistler, Long, McCullough. Mc Dowell,' Parks, Patterson, Pelzer, Powers, Proctor, Rank, Royse, Shafer, Stotsenburg and Yarling; total, 23. Durre and Pelzer are Republicans. Galleries and Lobbies Crowded. The galleries and lobbies were crowded when the Tomlinson bill was taken up at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on the motion of Senator Durre, making the bill a special order for that time. Senator Mattlngly moved that further -consideration of the bill be postponed and demanded the previous question. On the protest of a number of senators he withdrew his demand for the previous question. V Senator Kistler made a point of or der, declaring tnat the question berora the hnni was whether tha aorta taN should leave the regular, order and go to senate bills on second reading and not to the Tomlinson bill. . Senator Mattlngly,' to correct any possible error, called up the Tomlinson bill on second reading and renew ed his motion to postpone. Senator Kistler still insisted that the special order was Tilden's motion made in the forenoon that the senate should go to the Tomlinson bill on second reading 4 rThe chair read the Tilden motion and declared that he did not think the Tilden motion had done away with the Durre motion for a special order. - Wood Ready for Action. "Mr. President," said Senalor Wood, -"I believe the senate is now ready to consider this bill one way or the othIs This Fair? Certain Proof Will Be Made That Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Cure Stomach Trouble. THIS EXPERIMENT FREE. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are made to give to the system, through the digestive tract and the stomach, the necessary chemicals hot only to digest food but to enrich the .fluids of the body so that it may no longer suffer from dyspepsia or other stomach trouble. We will send you a quantity of these tablets free, so that their power to cure may be proven to you. Thousands upon thousands of people are using these tablets for the aid and cure of every know stomach disease. Know what you put into your stomach, and use discretion in doing so. Stuart's Dypepsia Tablets contain , fruit and Vegetable essences, the 'pure concentrated ; tincture of Hydrastis, Golden Seal, which tone up and strengthen the mucous lining of the stomach, and increase the flow of gastric and other digestive juices; Lactose (extracted from milk) ; Nux, to strengthen the nerves controlling the action of the stomach and to cure nervous dyspepsia; pure aseptic Pepsin of the htghest digestive power and approved by the United States Phama- ' copoeia. One of the ablest professors of the University of Michigan recently stated that this Pepsin was the only aseptic pepsin' he had found that was absolutely pure free from animal impurities; Bismuth, to absorb gases and prevent flavored with concentrated Jamaica Ginger in itself a well known stomach toete. Liquid medicines lose their , strength the longer they are kept, through, evaporation,' fermentation and chemlcal changes, hence Stuart's Dypepsia Tablets are recognised as the only true and logical manner of preserving the ingredients given above In their fullest strength. If you really doubt the power of these tablets. takethls advertisement to a druggist and ask his opinion of the formula.' It Is due your stomach to give ft the Ingredient necessary ' to stop its trouble. It costs nothing to try. You know what you are taking, and the Xante of these tablets prove their value. All druggists sell them. Price 60 cents. Send us your name and address and we will send yon a trial package by mail free. Address F. A. Stuart Co., 150 Btaart Building, Jiar&nall, Mich.

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linson bill should be taken, up on sec ond reading. Senator Mattlngly then moved that the senate rules be suspended and the senate take up the Tomlinson bill on second-reading. . , Senator Proctor insisted fiat - the special order was on Senator Tilden's motion. . The ayes and noes were de manded on the Tilden motion.' The result of this was 28 to 20 in fa vor of the Tilden motion. Senator Mattlngly then moved to strike out the enacting clause, and thus kill the bill. Senator Stotsenburg objected, say ing the motion just passed required the bill to be taken up on second reading, and that the bill had not been read second time.. The bill was then read by title. Senator Mattlngly then renewed his motion to strike out the enacting clause. Senator Durre moved that this motion be laid on the table. Kllng and Kane called for the ayes and noes, Senator Durre withdrew his motion and the vote was on the Mattlngly mo tion to kill the bill. This motion was debatable, and opened up the field for oratory. Durre Denounces Hanly. Senator Durre, republican, repealer spoke first. "Itstrikes me," he said "that a motion to strike out the enact ing clause comes like an assassin in the dark. It shuts out every hope for the bill, and every 1iope of making it a satisfactory measure. I have only one thing in mind now, and that is to make this a satisfactory and meritori ous bill." He then recalled the enacted plat forms of the two parties and said that the whole question had been surrounded by hatred, which had emanated from the man who made the " hate speech. He referred to former Governor Hanly and the latter's famous speech at the Republican state con vention. "This spirit of vindictiveness," ha said, "is the spirit which surrounded the French guillotine. It is the spirit of the savage 'who sinks his fangs in to the flesh of his foe. It is the spir it of the assassin - who lurks in the dark. -, The question is before you. Shall the people rule? If it is fair to say the majority shall rule, why is lt fair to say they shall rule only when they rule your way?" Senator Durre insisted that the question should be taken out of poll tics. "I want it. out of politics," he said, "so that each campaign we can go on our way in peace. Make your regulations as strong as you will, but let us not say that with one fell swoop we'll wipe the question out because the people have not so ruled." There was cheering in the lobbies when Senator Durre closed his speech. "I want to enter my protest against this unnecessary noise in , the senate chamber. This Is a place for legisla tion," said the lieutenant-governor, who warned the visitors that they should remain quiet. - Kllng Denounces the Bill. Senator Kling spoke next, declaring that the Tomlinson bill was one ot the most vicious pieces of legislation that had ever been presented. "You democrats," he said, "put In your platform a declaration for ward and township option and now what do you do? ' You present a bill here that has none of the platform features." Senator Stotsenburg protested that the only question was on the bill and that there should be no discussion of platform declaration. The point was sustained by the chair. Kling then took up the county option law. "We enacted a law here," he said, "which gives the people a chance to rule, and they are ruling. I say to you that the Tomlinson bill Is vi clous." Senator Kllng answered Durre, de claring that the stand for local option bad 'not been taken at the behest of any one man. "The result of the last election," he said, "did not prove to me that the peo ple did not want county option." "What was the issuer' asked Kist ler.-,,,;.;:.-,-"There were many issues," senator Kllng said. "The bill should be dis posed of one way or the other and then the legislature should take up ques Hons of Interest to the' people." Senator Stotsenburg (Dem.) support ed the statement of Proctor made in the forenoon that the Tomlinson bill was one of the most drastic bills ever presented. "I am glad," said Senator Stotsenburg, "that the people are here to hear this bill discussed. I am glad the paid lobbyists are here, the men who are paid to keep this question agitated. I do not mean the ministers, who have a right to be here, but the men who are paid for agitating and keeping alive this question." "Who's paying them?" asked Springer: ."The. Democrats V "The republicans paid them last fall,' answered. Stotsenburg... Stotsenburg Discusses It. Senator - Stotsenburg then ... began a discussion of the Tomlinson bill tak ing up first the license fee provided. The hill, he pointed out, called for a maximum license fee of $000, and this, Yre said, was an advanced step. ; He then referred to the fact that the 'bill prohibited a brewer from - having any Interest in a saloon. Another step in advance, he said, was the fact that the saloon license should be revoked when the license laws were violated. Senator Stotf enburg pointed out then that under the bill, saloons could be established.'1; in the country , districts only when a majority of the voters petitioned for it. This, he declared,' was an advancement over the remonstrance law. He next referred to the city and town option provision aid made the point that it preserved the Nicholson and Moore laws. f ' . "It has been charged," a said, "by the paid agitators, that th 3 bill would repeal the Moore and Ni hojson laws. If -that -be true the counfy option law repeals the remonstrance-laws, and the county option law, I understand, was drawn by one. of these aid agitators." The provision In tbk Tomlinson bill be declared, relating to the remonstrance laws, was jit$t the same as the provision in -the coMnty option law. He pointed out t'.at there Is now no JLiaw limiting the. lumber of aaloons.jj

but that the Tomlinson bill would limIt the number to one for each 500" in-!

.habitants.' . . The question on this motion," he said, "is not whether the county option law should be repealed, or kept on I the books. The question is whether you are going to allow this bill to come fairly before the senate for debate and amendments."' The. people,- he declared, were misled in regard to the provisions of the bill. Senator Wood's .Remarks. "I believe the democratic party is responsible," said Senator Wood, "for injecting this question which is pure ly moral into politics- The democrats met in convention and adopted a ward and township option declara tion in anticipation of what the republicans would do. The republican party did come along and in an unguarded moment, went one step further and adopted .a county option plank. "One man with an ambition that could not be curbed by his friends, that could not be curbed save, by the satiation of his own desire, called special session of the legislature, When -this man sought to be bigger and greater than the whole people of Indiana the people rebelled as they have ever rebelled against tyrants-. "Then came the special .session, and I believed it was the beginning of the end. I came here with a resolution and submitted it to the leaders of Yhe party." Senator Wood explained that the resolution was to the effect. that the option question had gone to the people and that if they would elect a republican governor and a republican legislature the county option plank would be enacted. Recalls Election Prophecy., "Then." . he . continued, "they came here and told us that if this law were enacted the republicans -would carry the state by 150,000. I didn't believe it, and I recalled then what had hap pened in the past. J asked you then to beware lest history repeat itself, and it did. I went out on the stump and I said then that if they reduced the . republican majority the law should be repealed. The result was 14,000 people in the state said 'we do not believe in county local option. "Now we are beseeched on one side to keep it on the books, and on the other to repeal It. I am not shirking responsibility. I know what you democratic brethren will do if it is not repealed. You will go out to the people and say you did your best to repeal. and you will say now give us a demo cratic senate and we will repeal it. And every normal democrat will vote his ticket and every liberal republi can will join you." Wood for Restrictions. I would have this business regu lated by the strong arm of the law. 1 would not vote for this bill as it is here now. But I would vote for high license bill and a bill limiting saloons to one for each one thousand inhabitants. I would destroy the damnable roadhouses. I would have the saloons regulated by law. The best temperance laws in the United States may be found in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania." Senator Wood then pointed out that liquor .is sold in Indiana in counties where the saloons have been remon strated out. '- Senator Fleming Speaks. Senator'Fleming spoke next.' "It a my desire," he said, "to raise the question of property intefests, and to give you some of the best thoughts of the , day on this subject. My position is well known. It is clear to my con stituents. I spoke in every ward in my, campaign and the result was. I was sent here by a larg3r ; majority than ever Was given before. If this law is left on the statute books Indl ana will be. dry by the year 1912." Senator Fleming then read from that section of the Declaution of, Independence which promises equal rights to all men. He then quoted from a speech of Lincoln in which he said that prohibition was a blow at the basis of all government. He then quoted, the words of John Quincy Ad ams, Thomas Jefferson, President El liot, of Harvard and " others, all of which he construed as being opposed to prohibition. ' The great minds of the present day are agreed," he said, "on the one ques tion that prohibition and its offspring local option, are evil." Speaking of property interests, Sen ator Fleming said: "A few months ago we heard that the insurance business was rotten, that the funds had been - diverted from the widows and orphans to help a president but no body said the insurance companies should v be destroyed. We hear of crimes committed by the railroads. but we do not say the railroads should be destroyed." He predicted that in time the evils of the industry with which be was connected would be washed away. Bland Against Repeal. There has been an intimation," said Senator Bland, "that I was doubt ful on the question of local option. I have not taken a brass band and announced my views, but I can not con sistently vote for the repeal of county option. My constituents - are for the local option and I must vote for it. I care not whether it is right or wrong, or is confiscartory of property. The people have not been grateful for county option, but the counties are voting on it now and they are for temperance. But the democrats are dem ocrats who do not - scratch their tickets!" Senator Bland said he was not fully in sympathy with . the way in which the question was brought up, but that under no condition would ho vote for the repeal of the option law. Senator Proctor Speaks. When Senator Proctor began to speak Pearson ' objected, saying that Proctor had ssoken In the forenoon. Proctor, after some, dickering, declar ed, he had not spoken on the same question in the forenoon and he was sustained. ' - Senator Proctor declared that he stood opposed , to prohibition . and county option, and that 'he drew the bill because be thought such a bill ought to be passed. It was a moral gnamtioa, ft declared a4 aboalsVnov-j

'er have been injected into politics. ' Lave"been tohir he" said. "that I

. was xiot elected on the county option issue. But I think I am in a position to tell you on what i3sue I was elected." I went Into every hamlet and every; school house, and told the people that I would work for the repeal of tlie county option law. I was for a $1,600 license provision when I came down here, but I couldn't get that provision through the house and that's why it is not in the bill. I was unfortunate once in politics. I w&3 defeated for-city judge by tie saloon keepers. "They voted for you the last time; didn't faey?" asked Springer, "Yes," replied Proctor, "and I am glad they did. The saloon keepers have as much right to their business as any other men. The trouble is there are a few people in this country seating themselves on a pedestal. But

THE THEATER

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I am thinking of the whole people and as the Indianapolis News has well said the deomcratic party came. Into power in Elkhart county on account of graft there under a republican administration. The ; whole people are not in favor of county option. ; You can't legislate the taste for liquor out of a man's mouth." Senator-Proctor apparently was almost exhausted when Senator Springer raised the point that Proctor's time had expired, and Senator Proctor was compelled to yield the floor. Senator Kane then asked for the previous question. The vote for the previous question wa 46 to 3, Grube, Kling and Lambert voting no. Then came the vote on Mattingly's amendment to strike out the enacting clause, which was 26 to 23. the enacting clause being stricken out and the bill killed.

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