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DRUG USED BY INDIANS MADE NARCOTIC BY LAWI l«‘n Moines, In , llnrch 27 Poyoto or f ho mescale button wan mado «•lt; narcotllt; by the Iowa legislature when tbe senate approved, by a vote of 2!* to II, the Korsllng Prichard bill, previously passed by the houae.TbiH bill war opposed at a publla hearing several weeks ago by m delegation of Mcsijuakle Indians from the Tania reservation on thoKround that peyote Is unelt;| Intrll**l religious ceremonies In manner corresponding to communion In other churchesSenator ('avttnauKb of Webster offered an amendment to exempt peyote uited In religious service* from tbe provision of the hill, butbln amendment was rejected by aVOfe of hi to 26.Senator White of Tama and Hen ton countlca opposed the Cava-1 naugh amendment and favored tho: bill. lie presented affidavits of do©*tor* who have treated Winnebago I IndlnnM in Nebraska, that the mescal* button la a harmful narcotic which haN caused death and Insanity.These affidavits and otho-a rtad by Senator Stanley of Nebraska a*-i sorted that the peyote or meaoaJe button haH only been used by Indiana in the last twenty years and that Its not j only harmful but of no religious alg* niflconce.
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Mount Pleasant Daily News
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, US
Fri, Mar 27, 1925
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