Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-01-31
BILL TO PROTECT
DRY TERRITORY
WOULD STOP SHIPMENTS OF Llo-
UoRs FROM "WET" TO LOCAL
OPTION TERRITORY.
REAPPORTIONMENT BILLS UP
Pari-Mutuel Machines Must Pay Two
Per Cent Of Commissions to State
Under Proposed Measure-Favora-
BILE Report on Bill Providing Addi-
tional Road Tax.

Frankfort.
? The anti-shipping bill OF Senator B
M. Taylor, Of Greensburg, which pro-
hibits the interstate shipment Of in
, toxicating liquors from wet territory
to local option territory in Kentucky
except in very limited quantities for
medicine, sacramental, mechanical
and scientific purposes, passed the
Senate by vote of 26 to 4.
A bill very similar in its terms be.
came law in 1906 during administra-
tiOn of Gov. Beckham, but was unin-
tentlonally repealed by the Hampton
law IN 1914, and its re-enactment has
been opposed bitterly by the liquor
interests. A similar bill passed the
Senate in 1916, but was not permitted
to come up in the House.
If bill introduced by Senator Helm.
becomes law, pari-mutuel machines
operating at race courses will have to
pay the state per cent of the 5 per
cent commissions deducted from
money bet.
The committee on municipalities re-
ported favorably the bill to empower
school boards In second-class cities tc
levy an eighty-eent tax for school pur-
poses.
The Committee on Legislative and
Senatorial Districts and Reapportion-
ment reported without an expression
of opinion the bills of Senators Brock
and Glenn, reapportioning the state
into SS senatorial districts. The bills
were ordered to their first reading.
The bill of Senator Meriwether
Smith to provide for registration Of
soldiers who may be absent on duty
on election day was given its first
reading after favorable report.
- Gov; Stanley submitted to the Sem
aie for confirmation his appointments
on the Board Of Prison Commission
and the State Tax Commission. The
Senate concurred in the appointments
of NJ. M. Logan, OF Brownville, and ].
A. Scott, of Pikeville, to the Tax Com.
mission, and Herbert Carr, of Fulton;
Henry Hines, of Bowling Green, and
Tom Hatcher, of Pikeyille, to the Pris-
on Commission.
Favorable reports were given the
bill of Representative Dycus to permit
o vote on the proposition of an addi-
tlonal ytwenty-cent tax for roads and
bridges in counties or magisterial dis
tricts; of the bill of Representative
Leslie p. Jones, which is known as the
red light nuisance abatement bill;'
OF the bill Of Representative Musick
to allow So for working on the county
roads and $50 annually for the road
supervisor; of the bill of Representa-.
tive Lilly providing a punishment for
desecrat!on of the American flag.
The House Committee on Agricul.
ture reported unfavorably the bill OF
Representative r. T. Smith to prohib
II the slaughter OF calves under IL
months OF age, except male Jersey
calves.
Representative Musick addressed a
resolution to the House providing that
the House janitor shall take charge OF
the bills and the billroom and with
the aid of the pages distribute the bills
daily. II passed.
Representative Chappell introduced
a bill giving Police Court, Magistrates
and County Judges jurisdiction to try
first offense for carrying concealed ol
deadly weapons.