THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
Mr. COFFEY presented a petition, to-wit:
Recognizing the fundamental principles of our free Government to be, that all laws are for the people and of the people, do most respectfully and earnestly ask and petition your honorable body, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Indiana, to take such immediate action as will secure the early submission to a vote of the people, for their ratification or rejection, of an amendment to our State Constitution, providing therein that no person shall manufacture for sale, sell or keep for sale, as a beverage, any intoxicating liquor whatever within the State, and pending the voice of the people on a question of constitutional prohibition, we ask and petition your honorable body to enact an efficient law that will protect the people from the dire evils of intemperance, with such pains and penalties thereunto attached as will insure its strict observance.
Similar petitions were presented by Messrs. Huchinson, Urmston, Shaffer and Davis.
They were severally referred to the Committee on Temperance without reading.
