Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1907 — Bowser After Saloons. [ARTICLE]

Bowser After Saloons.

Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 15—Five temperance bills completely rearranging the saloon system of the state, nicking saloon contracts with breweries illegal, restricting saloons to incorporated towns and cities and at the discre ion of city officers allowing them only in certain blocks of the business district, will be introduced in the Senate, perhaps today, by Senator Arthur J. Bowser, of Chesterton. Arotherbill which will be introduced by Senator Bowser early in the session, provided another senator does not introduce it, will be a measure to treat all habitual drunkards of the state as insane persons providing for treatment for them in special hospitals to be established and for their incarceration in penal institutions for a period of three year if such treatment does not prove effective.

Senator Bowser believes that the saloons of the state are a necessary evil and that the best thing to do is to mitigate the evil as much as possible. He believes for one thing that there are too many saloons, and one of his five bills will provide that there shall be but one saloon to a specified number of voters in any city.