Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-27

miles of fence built.
The report, considering the paral-
ysis in business during the year, is
highly creditable to the receiver and
his officia! corps of aids in the man.
agement of the road, and it shows
that with good times the road would
soon prove to be one of the best pay.
ing in the state.
Tho License Law Voted Down
| as to 40.
We clip from the State Register the
following proceedings in the House
at Des Moines, yesterday afternoon,
which is not included in the letter OF
our correspondent:
The hall and gallery were packed
to unpleasant fullncss, and it was
difficult to secure order and quiet. A
large proportion of the visitors were
ladies.
Consideration of II. F. SO was re.
sumed.
Said bill is to repeal sec. 25SS of
Code in relation to fines and costs as
sessed and Judgements rendered for
violations Of the liquor law, and to
enact a substitute therefore.
Mr.. Rhode moved to adjourn until
Monday at Up. m. Ruled out of Or
der.
Pending the adoption of the amend
ment offered by Mr.. Wood, stated
above, Mr.. Gleason hoped the same
would not be adopted. 1t would be
unjust. Many persons engaged in
the liquor traffic against the wishes
of their wives and children, who
would, though innocent, suffer by the
demands of this amendment.
| Mr.. Wood withdrew the amend
ment, and stated he would introduce
a bill covering the ground intended
by the amendment.
Mr.. Gleason moved the previous
question. So ordered.
Bill was ordered engrossed.
Mr.. Gleason moved that the bill be
considered cngrossed, read third
time and put upon it's passage.
Roll called and bill passed-aycs
So, nays 80.
Mr.. Dewcese asked to call up ii. f.
80. Objected to.
Mr.. Rickel moved to take II. +. 80.
Motion prevailed.
[Said bill is to prohibit the sale of
intoxicating liquor within two miles
of incorporated towns where the sale
of the same is prohibited within the
corporate limits, and to prohibit the
sale of liquor on election days.
Mr.. Bloom was in favor of the bill
and would join his temperance
friends in voting for the bill. Drink.
ing on election days should not be
permitted any where. But he did
not wish his temperance friends to
say that because il should not be sold
on election days it should not be al
lowed any other day in the year.
| [Applause,]
Mr.. Holbrook moved to strike out
section 2 of bill.
Mr.. Wilson, of Polk, was not in ia.
vor of striking out the second sec
ton. He said in Des Moines the
Mayor had always been in the habit
of closing the saloons on election
days In regard to the fret section
he thought it ought to pass.
| The second section asks that nc
whisky or any intoxicating liquors
shall be sold or given away on cleo.
ton day in the State of Iowa, under
penalty of fine of not less than $2j
or more than $780,
Mr.. Miles wanted to see the bill
pass, for it would save a great deal
to men running for office.
Mr.. Hotchkiss was in favor OF
amending by making the penalty for
violations Of the law Imprisonment
for 30 days, instead of until the fine
and costs arc paid. Withdrawn.
Question recurring on the motion
TO strike section second, it was lost.
Mr.. Stone offered an amendment
that property liable to execution foi
violation of law prohibiting the sale
of liquor, shall not be taken if the
owner thereof had no knowledge that
the liquor was being sold in his
building.
Bill as amended was ordered en-.
crossed.
Mr.. Macy moved to suspend the
rules and put the bill upon its pas.
sage. Motion prevailed.
Bill read third time, roll called
and bill passed-ayes 66, nays 80.
II. F. 2S5, to suppress lntemperance,
by providing police regulation sup.
pressing the sale of liquor, subject
to vote Of the people. The bill
gives towns and cities the right to
regulate or suppress the sale of all
kinds of intoxicating liquor within
their corporate limits. 1t is license
BILL
Mr.. Hiatt moved to lay the bill on
the table. Roll called, and motion
was lost-ayes 10: nays rs.
Mr.. Bolton said he introduced the
bill because he thought it was his
duty to do so. He was bitterly OPP
posed to the existence Of the doggeries
where liquor is sold, but while they
could not be obliterated by the pres
ent law, they could be governed by
the bill now before the House.
Mr.. BLEEDING arose and said that
he was in favor of stopping the man
ufacture of wine and beer rather than
the sale it. Every temperance paper
abused the seller of it, but would
print the advertisements of liquor
sellers for pay. He was not yet in
favor of voting for this bill, and there
by aiding in giving the Republican
party over into the hands Of their OPP
ponents. He thought it sign of
weakness for Republicans to say TO
the world that it could not keep sober
while there was any intoxicating
liquors within its reach, and this
they would by passing a prohibition
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the question of license or no license.
Mr.. Brown opposed the bill and
thought it was impracticable. Itpro-
tccted the child until he became a
man, and then it said "Seize him, and
make drunkard of him as soon as
you can" 1t allows the rumselIer to
make man drunk, but when he gets
him drunk, this bill prohibits him
from selling him any more until he
is sober again. 1t says, "hold on, wait
until he gets sober, and then we will
make him drunk again. He opposed
the bill very earnestly.
Mr.. Taylor said the Republican
party had put itself upon record in ia
vor of prohibition, and ought not to
60 back on its pledges. He thought
the Republican party could afford to
take the enemy of intemperance by
the horns and stop its course. The
revenues from license were not one
tenth as much as the money paid for
the support of criminals and paupers
caused by the traffic we license.
Question pending on engrossing the
bill, Mr.. O'Donnell arose and said
that any law we might enforce pro-
hibiting the sale of liquor would be
utterly barren and useless, without &
public sentiment to back it up. He
was in favor of temperance, but
thought such bill as this ought not
to pass. The present law was not
enforced, and now to enact more of
the same kind was absurd. He ap-
pealed to the members Of the House