Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-03-04
DES MONIES LETTER.
JULIEN RICHARDS PREDICTIONS HAVE
BEEN VERIFIED.
An Amendment to Mulct Law, Permitting
the Manufacture of Liquors Passes the
Housc-FOto Given IN Detail-BilI Regu-
lating Assessments For Taxes.

DIES MONIES, March 2.-(Special).-
The prediction in my last letter that o
manufacturing bill would be brought
out before the session was many days
| older has been verified. 1t came from
the house side and now only lacks the
| approval of 26 members of the senate
and the governor to become law. The
bill is in the shape of an amendment to
the present mulct law, permitting the
manufacture of liquors in localities
where the provisions of the mulct law
are now bar to proceedings under the
! prohibitory law. The history of it's
passage in the house which has not been
heretofore been made public is some
! thing like this: Last Wednesday even
ing, at conference of the Democratic
steering committee. held at the Slavery
House, it was decided that the vote of
the Democratic members of the house
would be given to a proposition coming
from the Republican side to amend the
mulct law, and permit manufacturing
only on condition that such amendment
should provide that manufacturing
should be allowed without the payment
OF tax and that another provision
should be inserted providing for the col
lectibility of liquor accounts in the
courts. After this meeting there was a
caucus of Republican members favorable
to manufacturing to whom this state
ment of the Democratic steering COM
mite was submitted. The Republicans
declined to incorporate a provision for
the collectibility of liquor accounts with
manufacturing amendment, but
agreed that some such provision should
be inserted at another point in the chap
ter. The Democrats were not satisfied
with this, but agreed to wait and pee
what the committee might prepare and
so on Thursday the matter was brought
before the meeting Of the committee on
suppression of intempcrance. There
were Is members of this committee pres
ent, including two Democrats, and the
manufacturing amendment was adopted
by vote of 10 to 5, and an amendment
proposed to another section to cover the
request made by the Democrats in re-
gard to the collectibility of accounts was
tsbN t'ONN " a. WV NOCt VOC.
Manufacturing Amendment Adopted
On Friday morning the committee re.
ported the chapter containing the mulct
law back to the house with the Dro-
posed amendment. The consideration
Of the proposed bill was taken I'D and
the test vote came On the adOptiou Of
the manufacturing amendment to Sec
4 e
were offered but none We're adopted
with the exception Of one by Mr.. Hin
man which provided for affixing the
formula of all liquors upon the caslz or
packages such formula to be printed in
English. German and Scandinavian.
The manufacturing amendment was
adopted by vote of yeas, 90; nays, AZ;
and is as follows:
But any person, firm or corporation may
in any city or town wherein the written
statement of general consent prescribed in
sections 6S and 60 of this chapter have
been duly filed with the county auditor
manufacture liquors named in this section
for export, sell the same at wholesale
within the state to registered pharmacists
holding permits, and to such persons us
have complied with the provisions of said
section g, and may sell to any person.
nrm or corporation engaged in u business
which requires It's use, alcohol for phar-
maceutical, medical. chemical or mechan-
ical purposes. provided that the manu-
facturers of liquors provided for in this
section shall place upon all barrels, casks
bottles, or packages of every kind whatso-
ever. containing liquors, a formula printed
in the English, German and S'candina-
Wan languages, which shall set forth in
plain terms the ingredients of said liquors
and the relative proportion of each. And
it shall be lawful for any common carrier
or other person to transport and ship any
liquors manufactured or sold under the
provisions of this act.
The section providing for the filing of
applications for permits by pharmacists
was amended to require that the petition
shall be signed by one-third of the free
hold voters of any township, town, city
or ward in which the permit is to be
used. The proposed section providing
for the appointment of "discreet per-
son" to handle liquors in any township
where there is no registered pharmacist,
was stricken out. The section which
provides that anyone found intoxicated
shall be liable to fine of not to exceed
$40 was amended to make it not less