The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-02-06


on a higher plane than heretofore. The
Proctor bill taken in connection with
the new local option law, will give In
diana as good a liquor law as there is
in the country. according to persons
who have made a study of the matter
There will not be any opportunity for
the saloon keeper to violate the law
with impunity after both of these bills
become laws The saloon business will
have to be run like any other legal
business.
Just to show the amount of hard
work done by the Senator's in the three
days that they We're at work on the
saloon regulation bill and the efforts
they used to amend the bill into proper
shape. the following list of the thirty
amendments made is given. The amend
ments are as follows:
License shall not be granted a Ii
censee who has permitted gambling in
his place of business
All reference to the time in which
the licensee shall be ineligible to OBJ
tain a license is stricken out and the
provision made TO read: IF license is
revoked for any cause the licensee shall
not be entitled to another license in the
state of Indiana.
Spesifying that remonstrances may
be had in cities well in townships.
For the revocation of license held
by a grossly immoral APPLICANT or one
who is otherwise unfit to conduct a sa
loon.
Prohibiting obscene pictures in sa-
looms.
Providing that the license shall be
Al. ,iee,;
grant the license or if an appeal is TAX
en-. from the date the court decides the
license shall be gran,eu.
Giving the commissioners power to
select from the list of applicants to
those whom licenses shall be granted.
their decision to be based on fitness and
location in which it is proposed to sell
liquor. This applies to instances where
the number of applicants is larger than
the number of saloons permitted under
the law
Increasing the penal bond of the APP
piicant for renewal from $4,000 to So,
500.
Providing the increase in the
amounts of bonds shall not apply to
present license holders their present
| licenses have expired.
Reducing from ten to five the num-
Der of days which a remonstrance
shall be permitted to be filed before the
meeting of the board at which the APP
| plication is to be heard
| Providing for increased license fees
shall not apply to present licenses un-
| til expiration.
| That license fees required to be paid
| to the county treasurer shall go to the
! school fund of the school corporation
- f1J, hn TO PtC httci
ness.
| That the license fees mentioned IN
the act shall be the only retail license
fes charged.
| Requiring licensees to be citizens of
the United States. This means that a
! license nuts be either a native of the
United States or a naturalized person.
i 1t will not permit person to hold n
| license who is a foreigner and who has
taken out his first papers and merely
declared his intention TO become .citi-
zen of the United States. This will shut
out large number of saloons run by
! foreigners in the state.
/ Providing that the applicant shall be
responsible for the payment of all
judgments for civil damages growing
out OF unlawful sales of intoxicating
/ liquors
| Providing for enumeration of popu-
lation for the purpose of saloon iimi-
tation in townships in which there are
no cities.
| Allowing saloon for the first five
hundred inhabitants and one saloon for
each one thousand inhabitants thereaf-
! ter.
| Words .'or fraction thereof in excess
of ESQ" striker out of privision con-
'cerning limitation of saloons accord