The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-28
INSURGENTS To
ATTACK BEER
CONTROL BILL
100 Amendments Will Be
Proposed in House on
Tuesday.

Administration leaders, secure N
the belief the beer control bill will
pass the house in its present form,
are due for a stiff floor battle Tues
day, when approximately 100 amend
mends will be proposed as the bill
comes down for second reading.
The house will convene at 10 Mon
day and the senate at 2.
Leaders of the inSurgent house
vets are marshaling their strength
for battle to get in draught beer
provision and to spike what they
term monopoly powers conferred on
the excise director.
Representative Lenhardt E, Bauer
Dem, Terre Haute) will propose
draught beer, and Representative
Eugene Martin Dem, FIT. Wayne)
ha ready scores of line amend
ments, most of which change the
word may" to 'shalI' where it re-
fers to the excise director, making
many of his duties mandatory in
stead of discretionary.
Martin Friday blocked party lead
ers efforts to rush the bill to third
reading after Representative John
F. Ryan Dem, Terre Haute),
chairman of the public morals COM
mittee, proposed several admins
tration amendments.
Rush Move Quashed
AS Ryan's last amendment was
introduced, Representative Edward
H. STEM Bloomfield, majority floor
leader, urged the bill be put on third
reading Immediately, which would
have made it ready for passage
Monday.
Martin demanded a point of order
and moved the bill be made a Spe-
cial order of business for Tuesday
There's no rush. Martin pointed
out. This bill only was printed
yesterday. It's important enough
to be read carefully"
While he was speaking, Ryan cir
culated about the chamber, urging
members to rush the bill through.
Speaker Crawford was dubious
about the voice vote, but a standing
vote showed fifty-four votes against
the rush move.
Repeater Is Delayed
The Wright bone dry repeal bill
passage, delayed Friday because
eight members of the house prison
affairs committee are on an inspec-
ton trip of Indiana institutions, will
come down for final passage Mon
day Balloting will be only a for
mality with a few dry Democrats
joining the slender Republican mi
nority.
Approximately a dozen resolu-
lions from VARIOUS parts of the
state, protesting ANY legislation
tending to weaken or repeal the
present Indiana dry laws" were pre-
sented to the house shortly before
adjournment Friday. All were re-
ferred to the public morals COM
mittee.
Most important of the new legis-
lation introduced in the house Fri
day, aside from the new administra-
ton reorganization bill, was a legiS-
latlVe reapportionment measure.
Senate Receives Bill
Sponsored by Representative j.
CHM EllySon Dem, Hammond the
measure would increase the repre-
sentatives of the urban counties.
Marion county representatives would
be Increased from eleven to twelve.
in addition to keeping the one Joint
representative with johnson county.
Lake, st. Joseph and Allen counties
also would gain.
Aside from receiving the McNutt
bill reorganizing the state govern
ment and passing a resolution con-
graduating President Elect Frank
lin D. Roosevelt on his fifty-first
birthday, which will occur Monday.
nothing was done in the senate Fri
day.
Teacher tenure remains a bone of
contention in the upper house. Next
week it is likely the matter will be
settled either by passage of a bill for
outright repeal Of the tenure law. or
one amended to make tenure