The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-03-17
THE LIQUOR sIl.I IN PENNSYLVANIA.

THE LIQUOR BILL IN PENNSfLVANlA.
The temperance people are making wonder
fal strides in the Northern States. The mea-
sures for the suppression Of the vice of drink
ing are bold beyond precedent. There is just
ground to apprehend that the mark may be
overshot, and that reaction OF dreadful cha
racter may ensue. Issues that are improper
may be raised, and temperate andjust men may
be forced TO take grounds that are painful to
them in opposition to the measures of the teto-
ia! party which they may esteem quixotic and
impractcable, and, therefore, calculated to do
more harm than good. But that such mee-
sures are proposed, indicates great change
in public feeling. We have just read bill in
troduced into the Pennsylvania Senate by the
Committee, on "Vice and immortality" which
is so rigorous in its provisions that we are sur.
prised that committee of thet body could
have been induced to present it, Its passage
| into law and successful enforcement would
indicate state Of society in they Key Stone
State which would justify the belief that the
Millennium had dawned upon it. Should itpass,
however, we shall expect to see another
"Whiskey Insunection" there.
This bill appoints people TO sell ardent spi-
rits for sacramental medicinal, mechanical
and artis,ical purposes" but for none other
| They are to give bonds and security, and to
keep books in which the sales of liquor are to
be kept-in each case the name and residence
of the buyer, amount bought, and purpose
| for which il is to be used, are to be set DOWN
and the buyers name is to be signed by him
self opposite the entry. These books are to
be exhibited TO persons appointed for the pur-
pose of examining them, who may require the
vendor to pay over part of his profits to the
State, if they think they are too large, and may
fix his annual profit it they deem proper. If
he abuses his office, they have the power to
remove him, and of appointing his successor.
The penalties for introducing or selling, ex-
cept in the manner provided, are of the severest
| kind, and may be enforced in the most sum.
mary manner. If man buys liquor from
| another, he may sue that other for the money
| he paid for the liquor, and the privilege OF
| suing the seller is extended to any relation by
| blood or marriage of the man who buys-even
the overseers of the poor who may have in
charge the children of man who bought IL
| quor-may sue the seller. A man who has re-
ceived liquor in pay for work, may sue his EN-
ployer as though he had not received any COM
pensaton, and the same privilege of suing is
extended as above stated. Suits of this kind
take precedence over all other business in
Court. The party on the liquor side, If he
appeals, must pay all costs and give security
for the costs that may accrue in the further trial
of the case, before he can appeal.
In the matter of search, private residences
are exempt, unless some one will swear that
| liquor has been sold in house, and then
search may take place, and the head of the
family be severely punished upon conviction.
| The provisions relative to the destruction of
liquor found in houses, are quite summary,
and whether it be Otard, Dupuy & Co., pale
Sherry, Chateau Margaux, OIL Monongahela
or Bald Face, it is all one, their heads are
| knocked off or knocked out, and "down among
the dead men," they are all bound to 60.
If this law passes and does not become
dead letter, Pennsylvania will be the soberess
State South of Maine.