The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-05
Fleming Put Through Emf
balming Process-Grube
Championed Measure.
OTHER BILLS KILLED
Senator Krau to Regulate
Sale by Druggists of oil
of Comfort"
Palladium SpeciaD


INDIANAPOLIS, March 5-The sen.
ate Tuesday put the legislative xxi
bosh" on two labor measures, passed
the bill requiring road taxes in excess
of $50 to be payable in cash, and made
it extremely bothersome for druggists
to sell "oil of comfort" otherwise
known as whiskey on any day.
The first labor measure to suffer abb
solute defeat was the Koenig- Dickin-
son 50-hours-a-week for women and
girl workers, and it consumed the ma
jor portion of both forenoon and af-
ternoon sessions Senator CRUDE, with
Representative Keegan at his elbow.
championed the cause of the workers,
while Senators Fleming and Whistler
put through an embalming process
that knows no resurrection.
Senators Yarling, Strange, Shively,
Gavit and CRUDE composed the batter
les, the latter three favoring the bill,
Yarling considered it too flexible and
Strange thought it would interfere
with established customs of trading
and manufacture.
Several times during the debate
Lieut-governor O'Neill threatened to
clear the galleries because of vocifer-
Gus applause which greeted those who
spoke in favor of the bill.
Senator CRUDE called attention to
the rapidly increasing vote of the So
cialists in Indiana and declared that
the Democratic party understood that
an 8-hour workaday for women was ex-
pected by the working people.
After the bill had been defeated, 20
to 10, Senator Fleming moved to re-
consider, and it was at this point that
Senator Kistler grasped an opportu-
nifty by moving to table Fleming's mo-
ton. This was done, and the 50-hour-a-
week-for-women proposition was doub-
ly defeated, because it cannot again
come up for consideration at this ses-
sion.
The gentlemen voting to kill the bill
were Baker. Ballou, Cleveland, Com
mons, Elsner, Engle, Fleming, Gelts,
Gers, Greenwell, Haunk, Hunt, Cary
Kolsem, Netterville, Parks, Rats,
Stotsenburg, Strange, Sullivan, Traut-
man, Traylor, White, Will Wood
George Wood and Yarling
Next came Rep. Weisman's shotfir-
ers bill with a majority report favoring
indefinite postponement. Senators Cav
it and Carleton signed a report favor
ing passage. A motion making it q
special order for Wednesday was con-
sidered equal to death, but it carried.
/ Senator Kraus bill regulating the
sale of booze by druggists was am
ended by Senator Stotesnhurg in a
manner that made it practically a
brand new bill. The only senators
against it were VanNuys, Gearing,
! Parks, Kolsem, Gers, and Faulkner.
! This is the way it will work: A drug
gist or pharmacist, shall not sell intox-
icating liquor to any one except on a
written (not typewritten) prescription
issued in good faith by a physician in
good standing; no more than sixteen
ounces shall be sold on such prescrip-
ton; the prescription shall not be used
more than once, must be placed on file
and be open to inspection by the pub
| lie. Also the druggist must be &C
quainted with the purchaser and keep
the name of said purchaser on file No
such sale shall be made to a person
known to be in the habit of becoming
intoxicated, nor shall it be drank on
| the premises. $50 to 500 for first Of
Tense; 800 to 5000 for second offense
with thirty to sixty days Imprisonment
additional with the option of the court.
Senator Kistler was again in &C
ton against the Biddle road tax bill
which provides for payment in cash of
roadtaxes in excess of 500. Kistler i'm
agined he sighted a discrimination in
| the bill The vote was 81 for, and eight
against. The bill is aimed at contrac-
tors who make immense profits in
working out road taxes for railroads
and other corporations.
! Those who wanted to kill the bill
were Senators Commons, Fleming,
Greenwich, Harmon, Jenkins, Traut-
man, Will Wood and George Wood.
Other bills passed were:
Cravens measure to provide power
for the state to make temporary loans
! in emergencies, such an emergency ex-
listing at this time.
Jackson's bill making it a felony to