Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-02-17
SOME FREAK LEGISLATION.
Lawmakers With Weird Bills For Reg
ulafina Human Affairs.

Lawmakers With Weird Bills For Reg
ulafins Human Affairs.
If all the freak legislation introduced
by legislators throughout the United
States were passed and became laws
what funny country this would be-
come; Indiana has furnished one OF
the most recent samples. 1t Is a bill
requiring every person wishing to take
drink to take out license.
Representative Colvert of Benton
county, Indiana, has prepared the bill.
I'VE have personal licenses to hunt
! and fish and do other things and fol-
low out certain occupations" said Col
1t would be source Of heavy revenue
to the counties, and all money derived
from the sale Of licenses could be turn
ed over to the educational fund. Lii
censes could be issued in the form Of
small pocket card permits reading that
the holder has been licensed to drink"
From Colorado comes the interesting
news that bill is about to be intro
duced in the legislature Of that state
providing that any surgeon who shall
perform an operation for appendicitis
and hereafter be unable to prove that
the appendix was in diseased condi-
ton, shall be guilty Of malpractice and
punishable under the penal code.
Iowa's contribution is a bill making
it unlawful for you to put your feet on
your desk-that is, If you happen to be
legislator. A resolution has been
introduced in the legislature prohibit
ing legislators from smoking in cham
bers and from putting their feet on
desks while debating to feminine COM
mittee clerks and stenographers.
That much-abused class, the poor
bachelors, being abused once more, this
time in New Mexico, where bill has
been introduced in the New Mexico
legislature providing for the classifi-
cation Of bachelors and widowers and
the levying Of tax against them.
Bachelors between the ages of rs and
45 are to pay SO annual tax.
AS for Texas, not content with max
Ing drastic prohibition laws which for
bid you from taking a drink of your
own whisky out of your own flask on
railroad train, or in sight Of a resi-
dence, the legislature Is now seriously
considering the enactment of a law to
put you in Jail II you ever dare to
use bad language to the telephone re-
ceiver. A bill introduced in the Texas
legislature by Representative Vaughan
making 1t a criminal offense to swear
over the telephone has already been
reported favorably from the house
committee on criminal Jurisprudence.
OF course everybody knows about
Nebraska's famous sheet bill. Repre-
sentative Link introduced 1t. 1t Is
measure to compel hotel proprietors to
furnish bed sheets nine feet In length.
The tongues Of the railway station
agents in Missouri may be loosened II
bill introduced into the legislature Of
that state a few days ago by Repre-
sentative Floyd Tuggle Of Gallatin, is
passed. The bill provides a fine Of $25
to $50 for any agent who refuses to an
swer questions put by travellers. Tug
gle said years of rebuffs by country
agents, of whom he had inquired II
trains were on time, had aroused in
him lingering longing to one day get
back" at the sphinx who hides behind
the wicket.
The state Of Washington is catering
to its lady voters. Polling places are
going to be made very attractive for
them. The city council of Seattle
started the ball rolling with the intro
duction Of a resolution prohibiting
smoking in polling places at elections.
This is the first legislation resulting
from the adoption Of the woman suf-
frage amendment to the Washington
constitution. 1t is proposed to make
the election booths very pretty with
decorations, flowers, easy chairs and
polite attendants.
The senate of oregon has unani-
mously passed bill requiring that ap-
plicants for marriage licenses be pro-
vided with certificate Of good health
from a licensed physician.
Kansas and Illinois are after bach
elors and married men who pose as
bachelors. Representative Cron Of
Topeka, introduced bill in the Kansas
legislature to tax bachelors over As
years of age to the tune of $25 year.
State Senator Samuel a Ettelson, Of
Illinois, favors the passage Of bill to
differentiate between married men and
bachelors by comforting on bachelors
some suitable title that will indicate
that they are unmarried, just as Miss
indicates single blessedness and Mrs"
indicates the married state.
Let us make 1t a felony" says Et-
telson, for a married man to use a
bachelors title. The change will be
for the good of society. 1t will be
bulwark for the home. 1t will protect
susceptible unmarried ladies. 1t will
abolish at one blow all the married
fiirts."
The London county council contri-
butes a ruling requiring school teach
ers to superintend the washing Of
children who go to school with dirty
hands and dirty faces.
A curious case, not due to freak leg
islation, but to the laws complexities,
came up in Michigan recently. Eugene
Rousseau, a resident Of Newhall,
south Of Escanaba, that state, appeal
ed to Judge Judd Yelland, Of the Es-
canada municipal court, for advice in
his predicament.
Under the Michigan laws bears are
protected game. On the other hand,
there are laws under which parents
may be prosecuted If they do not send
their children to school.
Rousseau informed the court that
two of his children had been chased
by bears while on their way home
from school and that he himself had
been made to sprint by a big black
bear.
Not being able to shoot the animals