The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-02-14
The Whlskey TriumYirate.

COLUMBIA, 8. g., Feb. 1.-THE State
Board of Control, the all-important trium
virate of this State, had meeting to-day.
For change all of the members were
present. Governor Tillman was in the
chair, as they say, and Comptroller
Ellerbe and Attorney General Buchanan
were there, and Commissioner Traxler
was present by special invitation during
portion of the session. What was done
has not yet been announced.
The only thing given out by Governor
Tillman on behalf of the meeting was the
boards construction Of Section o5 of the
remodelled law, which is intended to
confscate liquors in the State except
where protected by labels. AS Governor
Tillman announced it the board will
after the 23d Of the month consider all
liquors in the State in quantities Of over
five gallons and not protected with labels
as contraband and they will be confs-
Gated to the State. The commissioner
has, he said, been ready for the past
month to supply all legitimate requests
for labels upon proper application, &C.
companied with the statemenC that the
liquors are to be used for personal con-
sumption. IF persons willfully neglect
to provide the requisite labels and lose
their liquors they will have no one but
themselves to blame, says Governor Till
man. There is no cost for the labels, and
whereverit is seen that they are request
ed for bona fide purposes they will be
promptly forwarded.
Gov, Tillman announces that the board
has decided that no labels will be issued
to such parties as have taken out United
States licenses since the dispensary law
first went into effect. This be says Is an
evidence that they have been encour-
aging or running "blind tigers" The
board, he intimated, had Information
where considerable of the stock of "blind
tigers" was stored, and that after the 23d
of the month it would be pounced upon
and turned over to the State. The dis
penssry authorities have a kind of idea
that this rule will put damper on the
spirits of the "blind tigers" as it will
make 1t risky 10 keep any supplies on
hand.
The following is the section of the law
under which the board proposes to act,
and nowhere in 1t is shown that the
board can refuse any request for labels,
no matter from whom the request may
come:
Section So. That violations of any of the
sections of this Act, where punishment
upon conviction is not especially provi-
ded for, the person or persons or oorpo-
ration so convicted shall be punished in
the discretion of the Court trying the
same. All alcoholic liquors, other than
domestic wine, and in quantity more
than five gallons, which do not have on
the packages in which they are contained
the labels and certificates going to show
that they have been purchased from
State officer authorized to sell them are
hereby declared contraband, and on
seizure will be forfeited to the State as
provided in Section 81; Provided, that
this Section shall not apply to liquor
held by the owners of registered stills.
Persons having more than five gallons Of
liquor elsewhere than at his or her home,
which they wish to keep for their own
use, may throw the protection of the law
around the same by furnishing en- in
ventory of the quantity and kinds to the
State commissioner and applying for
certificates to affix thereto. After sixty
days from the approval of this Act any
liquor found in the State not having such
certificates may be seized and con6sca-
ted. Persons having more than they
wish to use may obtain certificates to
ship beyond the limits of the State. Any
person atfixing, or causing to be affixed,
to any package containing alcoholic
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printed or engraved label or device than
those furnished by the State commission
er shall for each offence be liable to
penalty OF ten days imprisonment or
twenty-five dollars fine,
About the best feature Of the enforce
ment of this section will be that it will
add new and cheap supply Of liquors to
the dispensary.
Chief Clerk Ivey is hard at work on
the second quarterly report of the dis
pensary. He expects to have 1t ready by
tomorrow. The figures are eagerly
watched for, and the hope is that it will
be made perfectly plain. While on this
subject, If not asking too much, it would
be mighty interesting to know how the
expenses Of the dispensary constabulary
were divided. It would be we'll to see
how much it takes to fight the "blind
tigers in Charleston aud how much in
the rest of the State, and in that way get
at an approximate ldea of the trouble in
the various portions of the State. There
can be no harm in giving this interesting
bit of rmation,-Dispatch to the
News and Courier.