Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1903 — Temperance People Victorious. [ARTICLE]

Temperance People Victorious.

The brewers’ bill repealing the blanket remonstrance provision of the Nicholson law, is dead. The House, at its session Thursday afternoon, by a decisive vote of 65 to 27 indefinitely postponed the measure. Mr. Kirkman, of Wayne made the motion to kill the bill. The vote was thus considerably more than two to one against it. Of course our representative Jesse E. Wilson, was among those voting ■ against the bill. John Beckman, ’ of Lake county, and former joint i representative for Jasper and Lake voted for the bill. It is possibla_tbat thesamebill, or one slighty modified in form, may be introduced in the Senate but it is hardly probable that the brewers will take such a course, in view of the large vote arrayed against them in the House. It has been hinted, also, that the brewers will now have a bill introduced amending the law so that if a power of attorney is given by a voter to be used against applicants for liquor licenses, it must be given before a notary public, or some other official authorized to administer an oath, However it is doubtful if this measure could be passed. In fact, if the brewers know when they are well off they will now quit for good, for the temperance sentiment in Indiana, if once fully roused, is strong enough to cause the adoption of much more stringent temperance laws than any we now have on our statute booksThe defeat of the brewer’s bill is regarded as a great victory for the church and temperance people of Indiana, who began a concerted fight from the very day Mr ! Luhring offered his . measure. | Petitions and memorials from every quarter of the State have fairly swamped the members of the House during the past week, and every member has received dozens of personal letters urging > him to work and vote against the I attack on the Nicholson law, which the temperance forces regard as their greatest weapon in the battle they are waging against the liquor traffic.