The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-03-05


borhood Of $1,000 to $500.
Governor W. s. Hammond affixed
his signature to the Peterson county
option measure late yesterday and
IL is now q Minnesota law.
The executive attached his name
without any ceremony and handed
the pen to Charles NJ. Andrist, his
secretary. who had asked for II.
The pen was a plain one OF the
Office stock.
Governor Hammond made a brief
statement after giving his approval,
to the act.
II read the bill over" he said,
and II looked like a very fair bill
to me.
Some question has been raised as
to how one or two provisions of the
law may work out. In dry counter
1t prohibits the sale or storage Of
liquor and the question arises
whether one, by keeping liquor in
his own house for his own use
would be violating the law.
But elsewhere II says that the
law is to be construed literally, so
assume II will be construed not to
have any such meaning.
The election features OF the Law
seem fair and we'll drawn. A diff.
Guilty might arise in some districts
in finding representatives OF both
factions TO act as election judges
as the law provides, but the pro-
vision is fair one, nevertheless.
Law Is Now Effective.
The law went into effect imme.
diately when the governor signed II
IL was deposited with the secretary
| of state at once.
George b. Stafford of Minneapolis
superintendent of the AntiSaloon
league. said today that steps would
be taken i'm the near future to have
license elections in several counties.
IL have received applications BY
mail from three counties" he said
ito have the law put into opera.
ton. have received at least twent,
letters from Minneapolis urging that
action be started TO make Hennepip
county dry In my judgment we
ought to wait and not take hasty
action in Hennepin. but have the
law tried out first in smaller commu
mites. u
Campaign To BE Inaugurated.
"All reports I have received from
over the state SLOW that Minnesot
is aflame with zeal for temperance
I believe that within year eighty
five to ninety per cent of the coun
ties will have license elections an6
that all but eight or ten of the
eighty.six Minnesota counties will
be voted dry.
I'm Moorhead the drys who were
| defeated at a local option election
recently have declared they will in
woke county option and make al
Clay county dry.
IL was quite confident all alonf
that the governor would sign the
bill and not at all surprised when
| he uiu.
IL have also heard much praise for
the members of the legislature who
have stood for the bill, especially
for those from, districts where the
issue was not raised and who were
not under obligations to vote for II.
Ratification Meeting Sunday.
Mr.. Stafford said ratification
meeting would be arranged for Sun.
day afternoon in some Minneapolis
church. when the friends OF TEN.
perance would congratulate each
other on the result. II is not the
intention to circulate no-license pc.
tetions at that time, he said, as the
meeting is merely designed to give
| thanks for the victory.
Senators o. A. Lende and +. II.
Peterson introduced joint resolu-
ton i'm the senate late today pro-
testing against the collection of
internal revenue taxes for the sale
of tjn,iar In localities which have