The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-04
RAINES LAW PROBLEMS.
NO FUND TO PAY INMATES TO
LICENSE HOLDERS.

Hair n Milliou More for the city 90 Raise
nv TsS or Ronds-Restaursnts Not We,
Secure for To-morrow-SAioon Men Want
Lower Say No, Indeed.
The total amount Of rebates that will be due
from the city to liquor dealers who hold paid -up
licenses which run beyond June 30 is S544, 600.
and there lie no fund in the city treasury on
winch to draw for the payment Of the claims
which the Raines law authorizes the liquor
dealers to make. II II be suggested that the
money recently taken In by the present Excise
commissioners and that TO be taken In by them
turing the present month be reserved for the
part payment OF these rebates, the answer Is
MADE That certain charitable institutions have an
absolute right to this money, and can compel the
BOARD OF Estimate and Appurtlonment to dis.
tribute IL to them. There was S1l2 900 turned
over 10 the City Chamberlain by the Excise
commissioners on April 1. but this will all have
y oe distributed to the charitable institutions.
Ihere 10 nothing left for the city seemingly but
to put OF the payment OF the rebate 10 license
holders until the S544.80O can be included in
the tax budget for next year, or to have the Leg
islature pass an act permitting the Issue Of
bonds to meet the clafms-more bonds.
corporation Council Scott and his assistants
TOOK a holiday yesterday. and the opinion which
was to have been furnished to Chief Of Police
Conlin regarding tho right of restaurants bay-
Ing a liquor license to keep open during CLOSE"
hours and on Sunday was not prepared. 1t may
be forthcoming this morning, in time to rule the
police on Sunday. 1t is expected by the police
and by some OF the restaurant keepers that the
opinion will follow the lines OF that given by
Assistant, District Attorney Miles OF Kings
oosn \, b bnnr restaurants may not only keep
furnish liquor with meals. This opinion. it was
said Yesterday. was based on the decision OF tile
GenerRl Term OF the supreme Court In this de-
partment in 1887, that liquor might be served
with food by restaurants on sunday.
Several restaurants were licensed as hotels
yesterday. Among them were Martins. at
Broad way and Fortieth street, and La Oranges,
on Thirty-fourth street. near broadway. Twelve
applications for change TO a hotel license were
made. Among the applicants were Christian
A: Wolf. In, Carnegie Music Hall; the proprietor
street; John w. Ennis. who runs the restaurant
In Fourteenth street, opposite Tammany Hall,
and two other restaurant proprietors.
A great many complaints have been made to
the present Excise Commissioners on the mart OF
demand a reduction In rent, because Of the In
crease in the fee which they have to nav TO CON
tinue in business. The landlords say they can
not afford to reduce rents because the Raines
for Violations Of i the law c senP%hstsi' o l9f it, all T T1nss
declare that they must have high rent as a sort
of indemnity for the risks they take.
A District Attorney Henry w. Unger
too much when he undertake to say that a sa-
loon keeper may not sell food for a cent if he so
desires. Mr.. Cnger went further and said that
there would be no violation of the Raincs law
If a man who drank at the bar should take a bit
of lunch. The violation. he asserted. is accom-
plished by the giving away of food only.
The Republican leaders In the various Senate.
districts have been trying to agree on men for
have not succeeded in ali, and to satisfy the
warning factions some districts may get two
q agents or soms clerical sPpointments to balance
have been agreed on are William II. Kilboy for
tho Tenth Senate district. Louis c. Grenner for
the Fifteenth, and Henry G. Adee for the E!gh-
teenth.