The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-05-06
EFFORT TO KILL
DRY BILL FAILS
Measure \ to Harmonic State
Law With VoIstead Act Goes
to Engrossment.
CHANGE IN INHERITANCE TAX
Proposition Favored by Administration
Would Amend Present Statutes
Would Bar Draft Dodgers
From Public Office.

INDIANAPOLIS I'm the senate
to slaughter the Dunn bill proved
failure. The measure is intended TO
harmonize the state prohibition law
with the Volstead act. The bill went
to engrossment.
Several amendments were adopted.
A roll call on the motion of Senator
Dunn to table Senator Nedjrs motion
for indefinite postponement showed 20
senator's in favor of the bill and IL OPP
posed.
The following voted yes on the mo
ton TO table Senator Nedjrs motion:
Alldredge. Banum, Baxter, Beardsley,
Buchanan, Cam, Decker Douglas,
Duncan, Dunn, Furnas, Henley, Hill,
Holmes, Humphreys. Kiper. Leonard,
Lindley, McConaha, Maier, Miller,
Moorhead, Southworth, Steele and
Tague.
The following voted no: Adams.
Arnold, Bowers, Brown, Cleveland,
Cravens, English Hays. Hepler, Hog
ston, Kline, Mccullough, Meeker,
Nedjl, Richards. Swain and Van Or
man.
An amendment offered by Senator
FurnaS to the penalty provision would
make it optional with the judge TO add
Imprisonment instead of requiring
both fine and imprisonment.
Senator Dunn offered an amend
ment, which was adopted, TO strike
out Section of the bill, which reads
as follows: within ten days after
the date when this act has become OPP
erative, every person except licensed
! pharmacists, wholesale druggists, or
public hospitals, shall remove or
cause TO be removed all Intoxicating
liquors in his possession from this
state. And it shall be unlawful for
] any person TO possess Intoxicating
! liquors except as in this act provided.
! Provided, however. Chat this section
shall not apply to intoxicating liquors
not exceeding one gallon in quantity,
owned and possessed by a person on
the date when this act becomes opera
! tive and held by him in his own home
! for domestic USE"
Members of the house attacked two
senate bills and before the house had
finished with them they were resting
i'm the pile of bills which have beer
! killed by the "strike out the enacting
clause" method.
One of the bills was introduced by
Senator Beardsley and provided that
| L. oh hay nj hnritV
to pay from school funds the pre-
miums on bonds of school treasurerS.
Representative Smith opened the at
| tack on this bill with the assertion
that some counties would be damaged
by the bill because they are hardly
able to raise sufficient money for
school purposes, and that the pay
ment of these premiums would further
cripple them.
The other senate bill killed was in
troduced by Senator Miller. 1t pro-
vided closed season on muSSelS and
CLAIMS between April 1 and July 1, un-
less they were gathered for use as
bait. Members first sought to amend
the bill so as to exclude certain riv-
ers.
A bill introduced by Representative
Bedgood provides for the creation of
hotel division of the state fire mar
shaTs department, and authorizes the
issuance of licenses to conduct hotel
or restaurant. The license fees range
from So 70 so. The bill was intro
duced Mt the request of the Travellers
Protective association and the United
Commercial Travellers.
A bill introduced by Representative
Ahlgren, which is an administration
measure. would amend the present in
heritance tax law in several respects.
Under the proposed amendments prop
erty left TO widows 10 the extent of
$4,000 is exempted from taxation
The law now fixes the exemption AZ
$4,000. Exemption of property left
TO children under eighteen years old
is increased from $1,000 To $1,000
Rates on the present clasSfications OF
property are slightly increased. One
classification is eliminated.
Judiciary + committee of the house
reported for passage the bill intro
duced by Representative Tucker
which provides that persons who
have been convicted of evading the
selective service act. of attempting &c
defraud the government, of seditious
utterances, or OF any other crime
against the United States. for which
the sentence imposed exceeded siN
months. shall not be eligible to hold
public office.
Blue Laws Again Revived.
Several Indiana cities are again ex