The sun., 1899-01-26
RAINES INVITING REBUKE.
,rprBuIcINs DISAToW BIS RECENT
EXCISE UTTERhNCEs.

a threat to Hamper New York City Hotel
Mon with More Stringent sunday ReEu-
lo,ions is Disapproved, and May Lead to
pisciplininr the CanandRiEua Statesman.
rho Hon, John Raines. Republican State
eorntor for the Forty-second district. which
Includes the counties OF Wayne and Ontario
md whose home is in Cannndaigua. is quoted
"s sovinp in Albany the other day: "I'll teach
.hosc hotel follows In New York city that there
T.. n God in Israel" Senator Rainess utter
snce. It was said yesterday, had for founda-
,ion the bill which he has tucked away in his
Senatorial desk. and which would prohibit the
Now York hotel keepers from serving wines or
INV description Of alcoholic beverage with
r,noIs on sundays This bill has not vet seen
,ho light of day, but Senator Raines's threat
.hot be proposes to teach the hotel men OF New
yort city that there is God in Israel has
nrirkled the brows of Republicans down this
way
For answer to Senator Rainess threat. an
smincnt Republican authority said yesterday:
"ycs and the Republican party OF the State OF
Nev York has stuffed club ready for Senator
John Raines OF CanandaiEua. Moreover. 1t will
WELD it. too. II Mr. Raines Is not more discreet"
II was recalled that within the last two or
,breo wears several Republican politicians OF
greater prominence lnuu c'hulol iNhihSS Iuu
started out to throw paving stones at the Re-
pubcan organization of the State. and had
essayed to stops its progress:
There came a burst of thunder sound
The boy--ohl where was hep
Ask of the winds that far around
with fragments strewed the sea
Senator Raines's Republican critics went on
IN say that while he is an agreeable enough
follow every now and then he has to be led into
n seouestered nook ana quietly informed that
he is not tho Republican party of the State of
New York At times. it was added. 1t is rather
difficult to make that startling but incontro-
ycrtibe fact clearly understood by the Senator
from the Peppermint district. Republican au-
thorities did not hesitate to say that even
should Mr. Ranes introduce the bill he threat
ems to it could not be passed in either house Mt
Albany. They said they could not understand
Senator Rainess motive in formulating such
hill and neither are his utterances concerning
/, understood Tho verdict yesterday was in
effect that Senator Raines Is either dense or
mischieyous
The so-caed Raines Liquor Tax law is re-
Earded in many quarters as one OF the most
brnencent laws upon the statute books OF the
State In many respects 1t is a reproduction
of the Ohio Excise law which had been in ope-
ration in the Buckeye State for several years
before the law which bears the name OF Sena-
tor Raines was passed at Albany. The Raines
law in this State. it was added. is working out
its own salvation year after year. and then 1t
was pointed out that Senator Raines's utter
ance against the hotel keepers Of New York city
carries with it no suggestion OF attempting to
improve the excise law which bears his name.
but is merely threat against certain class OF
citizens The hotel keepers. it was learned.
are iucensed at Senator Raines for his recent
comment, but at the same time they have not
the slightest apprehension that he will be per-
mited to pass legislation which would result
in turning Greater New York overto the Bryan
lied Democracy in 1900 by a million plurality.
The only prospective excise legislation which
up to this hour has been discussed at all is
proposition. still inchoate in every particular.
that the brewers OF the State should be taxed
in measure and that all revenue thus derived
should be used for betterments on the Erie
and the other canals Of the State. This idea, it
was said. is still embryonic. but after further
discussions it may take definite FORM