The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-02-06
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mitted in a restaurant. but drinks may
be served at the tables. II a holder
Of restaurant license should wish to
change and conduct a saloon he could
do so by exchanging his restaurant
license for regular license and pay
ing the difference in the price. This
restaurant feature of the bill is taken
from the German Alliance bill.
Limits Number Of Saloons.
The bill limits the number of sa-
looms in any city or Incorporated town
to one for each 500 inhabitants
1t is also provided that the passage
of the bill shall not in any manner
affect the Moore remonstrance law,
nor any remonstrance that has al
ready been held to be valid The bill
also says that it SHAH not affect the
result of any local option election al
ready held.
important Feature.
One of the important features of the
bill is that which prohibits brewery
ownership or control of saloons.
There is a section which provides that
before a license may be issued the ap-
plicant shall make affidavit that he is
the only person pecuniarily Interested
in the business for which the license
is asked and that he neither has re-
ceived nor will receive directly or in
from firm,
poration engaged in the manufacture
or sale of any articles sold or handled
in the applicants business, any loan
or gift or any support. either in the
shape OF money or of saloon fixtures
or furniture or payment of license
fees, and the property in which the
business is to be conducted. if not
owned by him, is neither owned nor
leased, directly or indirectly by any
such person. firm or corporation. 1t
is provided. however, that these pro-
visions shall not apply to any person
applying for license within three
years from the passage of this act and
being at the time of its passage in
possession of a license and engaged
in the sale of intoxicating liquors.
These provisions are all taken from
the German Alliance bill
No Discrimination.
The provision limiting saloons to
one for each 500 inhabitants would
not apply to saloons in existence at
the time of the passage Of the act, be-
cause the number could not be reduc-
ed without discriminating against
some of them. A law that would say
that "A" may have a license and that
B." without cause. shall be refused
a license. would be unconstitutional.
The penalties for the violation of
the law are made severe. For the first
offense the offender shall be fined
from $25 to 500 to which shall be
added suspension of the license for
thirty days; for the second offense the
fine would be s25 to 500 to which
would be added Imprisonment in the
county Jail for ten to sixty days and a
revocation of the license
To Push /. Through.
This is the bill that it is the pur-
pose of the leaders to push through.
Not only does it meet with the approx
al of nearly all of the democrats, but
it is said that there is a strong prob
ability that a good many republicans
will fall in line with it. 1t is evident
from what has been going on here
that neither party is willing to take
the blame for repeating the county op-
ton law. but that each is willing to
take part of the blame
Had a Hemorrhage.
The house had another hemorrhage
yesterday afternoon. The members
introduced siXty-two bills in half
hour, and that is going some. 1t was
the largest number introduced in any
one day since the session, began. It
made a total of 3S9 that have been in
troduced in the house thus far.
This is the last day of the first half
of the session. and still it seems that
the legislators never will get through
introducing bills. Among those intro
duced yesterday were few of some
Importance. though the bulk of them
were made up of bills that could as
we'll be left out
Bills Introduced.
Among those introduced yesterday
in the house We're these:
Wells. to clear titles to some Indian
lands in Allen county; Roggen, for
safety appliance in theaters: Shirley.
to have labor commissioner elected
by the people instead of appointed by
the governor; Kleckner to create a
board to examine architects; Mcken-
nan, to make it lawful to lower water
in a lake for drainage; Thornton. to
abolish natural case inspector ard to
combine the entomology, forestry and
fish and game bureaus in one office;
Mendenhall. to repeal the three mile
road law and build roads by election;
Strickland, to prohibit the unauthoriz-
ed use of photographs as advertise
ments; Greiger. authorizing cities to
assess. for improvements outside OF
cities: Buennagel, to create a state
highway commission: Talbot, to pro-
vide an office for the prosecuting at
torney in the court house: Cochran,
to prohibit the use of Dumps on gas