Evening star., 1897-01-28
M o Sc LIQUOR BILL
Report Of the Senate Subcommittee to Be
Made Tomorrow.
Changes That Are Suggested in the
Measure Which Passed the
House.

The subcommittee of the Senate commit
tee on the District of Columbia will to-
morrow morning make report to the full
committee on the Morse bin for the regula-
ton of the liquor traffic in the District OF
Columbia. The report of the subcommit-
tee will doubtless be adopted. and COM
prise the report of the bill made to the
Senate. The changes made in existing law
by the bin in the form i'm which il will be
placed before the committee on the District
of Columbia follow:
There is provision that said sales by
the maker, brewer or distiller thereof shall
be made only to a person licensed under
the provisions of this act
The decisions of the excise board are
made hnal only "as to facts, and IL Is
provided that questions of law may be
appealed TO the Supreme Court Of the Dis
erict OF Columbia either by the applicant
or by any contestant of record. provided a
justice of said court shall after examina-
ton OF the record. consider that the excise
board erred on a question of law I'm grant
ing or refusing license. and allow an ap-
peal: Provided, That such appeal shall be
taken within twenty days. and that the ap-
plicant, if he or she had liquor license
the preceding license year, may continue
business pending the appeal
Signing of Licenses.
Licenses must be signed not only by a
majority of owners and residents on both
streets where saloons located on cor
ners, but shall be signed also by wners
or residents on the corner diagonally op-
posite such bar room" Measurements from
bar rooms are to be made from the build
ing in which located, instead Of the
place
The following provision is struck out.
Every place where Intoxicating liquors
are sold to be drunk on the premises shah,
TOR the purpose of this act. be regarded
and considered bar room, and the posses
sion of intoxicating liquors and the selling
or disposng of the same be drunk on
the premises shall constitute and make the
place bar ROOM, as is the provision, I'm
til such conviction such licensees license
shall not be revoked or taken away from
him
The limitation of above sixteen years of
age Is stricken from the provision that
No Intoxicating liquors shall be sold. given
or in any way disposed of to any minor or
intoxicated person or TO a habitual drunk
ard, nor TO any person who is in the habit
of becoming intoxicated, If such persons
wife, mother or daughter shall in writing
request that the saloon keeper shall not Sell
10 such person.
1t is further provided That the interior
of every bar room shall all times be ex-
posed TO full view from the street except
in the case of a hotel of a club duly
licensed under the provisions of this act"
What Constitutes "a Bar Room.
The provision that Every place where
distilled, malt, fermented wines liquors
or cordials are sold in quantities as pre-
scribed for retail dealers by section 32ii
Revised Statutes of the United States to
be drunk upon the premises" shall be con-
sidered as bar room, is amended to in
clude quantities less than one pint
whether to be drunk on the premises or
not, and the clause, ''the poss. ssion of
malt, distilled, fermented or any intoSicat-
ing liquors with the m eans and appliances
ear m fh.ah "a.
the same TO be drunk where sold, snail be
prima facie evidence of a Bar room within
the meaning of this act, and the license
therefor shall be known as bar room
license, is amended TO include quantities
less than one pint, whether drunk on the
premises CT not"
No license can he granted to any person
for continuing the business of a twice-coa-
such VIC laucIfs occurred or elsea here 1t
is provided: THAT no witness shall be
excused from testifying in any case
brought under this act on the ground that
ms answer may tend TO incrim,nate him.
but no witness testifying Shall there
after be prosecuted for viola ton of any
provision of this act concerning which
such witness may have testified"
Prosecutions for Violation.
Prosecutions for violation of the nro-
visions of the liquor law must be brought
by the attorney for the District upon in
formation of two reputable witnesses"
that the law has been violated. The pro-
vision that pool, &C, shall not be PLAYED
where liquors are sold is modified TO in
ciuue or In any adjoining intercommuni-
cdhhs room NO female of any age or
minor shall be employed in a bar room