Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1903 — A New Saloon Bill Prepared. [ARTICLE]

A New Saloon Bill Prepared.

Senator Eittinger has prepared a compromise saloon bill which is understood to be a substitute for the Lnhring bill, lately killed in the House. It raises the saloon lioenae in tbis state to SI,OOO and restricts the number of saloons in any oity or town to one for eaoh 1,000 population. These provisions, it is olaimed, will greatly reduce the number of saloons in Indiana, and also seonre a more responsible and law-abiding class of men to manage them Such a bill would out out two of the four saloons in Rensselaer, and at least two in Remington In Hammond it would knock opt a whole battalion of saloonists, about 150 at least. The bill repeals the blanket remonstrance feature of the Nioholson law. Except for that provision it seems like a pretty strong temperanoe law, but it is said the brewers endorse it.