Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1905 — CITY COUNCILS TO RUN SALOONS [ARTICLE]

CITY COUNCILS TO RUN SALOONS

Thu eday’s Indianapolis Star: I An I idianapolis lawyer. wh < haa been making h s udy o’ the cites and towns act, discove>ed yesterday Hint the ant giver city c iiinoi's remarkably treed poors eg t > 'h‘ srli of .ntoxicants The law gives council *ht> ngl t to ‘•license, iax, reu>uL.ta a d restrain” all places wlure liqu >r is ! sodto be used o 1 tbe p emie- a; to d iuote the room, bni di g or etructurewhere such liquors may be s >ld to ‘ exclude such salee from toe suburban cr residence pa t such oitj to ‘‘direct the arrauge-

• ment and ronstrudion of the door< windows and < p nines of I the particular room in such bi.i djing where snob sales miy be hod;” to ‘direct the location, srranrerneut and construed m of the bar kept therein and the interior arrangement . and construction of such room,” to direct what games may be carried on the rein,” and to "firbid the use or keeping of wiue rooms.” "For the purpose of this clause,” the acts continues, "cities of the first (Indianapolis) and second class are given jurisdiction for four milen from their corpo a f e limits, and of all other citiei two miles from their city limits.” Tbe power is also given for the licensing of breweries, distilleries and brewery and distillery agencies, providing that such licenses shall not bo in excess of SI,OOO a year. "I do not believe that s -me members of tbe Legislature knew that this provision as to saloons was on the bill.” eaid the lawyer yesterday. ‘or there would have been amendments offered. "There is no doubt that the State has a right to delegate its police powers to cities in this way if it so choeses This section certainly gives city councils the power practically to do away with saloons if they want to.”