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TILLN ANS APPEAL.
Asks Congress- to LcgnliZe II Lawless Con
dition--Old Exploded Chestnut Claims
OF Dispensnry "Morality' Repeated
in the Senate
Special to Tho State. |

Washington, Juno 3.-Thc dis
pcnsary resolution offered by Senator
Tillman to-day was omusculatod be-
foro it's reference to the judiciary
committee. As amended by Senator
lIoar it roads
"Rosolvcd, That tho committee on
tho Judiciary bo lirected to consider
and report, by bill OF otherwise, what
Legislation, if any, is necessary 10
| give full effect to the purpose of the
act approved August s, 1890, on
| titled can net to limit tho effect Of
tho regulation Of commerce between
| the several States and with foreign
countries in certain cases."
In explanation of tho original res
| olution Senator Tillman said With
in wcck the circuit judge there has
declared that the disponsary law is
unconstitutional because it conflicts
| with tho Interstate commerce law.
| Tho dispcnsary law provides that
| liquor shall not bo sold in the State
| by other than Sta'c oilicor who is
under bond and limitation as to tho
| hours of salo EIo cannot sell it in
| tho night time and he cannot sell
it except in unbrokcn packages
scaled packagcs-and these pack
ages arc not to be broken on the
premises.
Now, tho circuit Judge comes
along and declares that as tho State
recognizes tho sale Of liquor as logit-
| innate it is not an exercise Of the
police powor to restrict it as wo have
done, and that therefore citizon of
any other State has n right to ship
into the State in original packages
and to sell it within the limitations
that tho State law imposes on it's
State officers. Tho State has at this
timo something like 100000 in
vested in liquor distributed at diff
foront dispcnsarics. Thcro is no
power in tho State government to
suspend operation Of tho vast ma
chinery for tho handling of this
product and yet, mdor the condi-
lIons imposed by this decision, any
outsider can como in and open q
liquor shop alongside of tho State
dispcnsary or anywhere else and sell
at any price ho ploascs, therefore
resulting in great injury to the NOR
als of tho State and to tho welfare of
tho community as we'll as loss in tho
expenses which will attach by run
ming tho dispcnsaries under such
circumstances.
"Thoro is an erroneous impression
abroad that the State entered upon
this business for tho profit in it.
That is not truo and it is a nero
secondary feature Of the law which
Is itsclf as remote in purpose from
thus handling Of tho liquor as any
whore in any State in this Union.
To those who claim that it is an il
legitimate business, that no decent
person will go into it, and that the
State ought not to go into it, | mere
~ point to the fact that the United
States government has always do
rived revenue from liquor. Nearly
every State in tho Union to- day IL
censcs its sale and is in league with
tho licenses and creates monopoly
from which private persons who OBJ
tain tho business arc allowed to sell
for profit, to be shared by it. The
opinion of this circuit judge that tho
State has not tho right to limit tho
sale in this way, but must license
somo private individual to do it is,
wo think, contrary to tho act of Con-
gress which havo recitcd in the
resolution.
"Thcrcfore for the relief Of South
Carolina and to put her back on
plane with tho other States, so that
her citizens, in tho exercise Of thor
local government, may control this