The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-04-13


The ordinance submitted by the FL
nance Committee restricting the sale
of liquors was as follows:
Liquor licenses may be issued for the
year beginning May lst, 1900, on the
following conditions:
I. The fee for liquor license shall be
$500.
,. Bar rooms shall not open at all
on Sunday, nor before day light, nor
close later than p m, other days, eX-
cept on Saturday night when the clos
ing hour shall be 1890 p. m.
3 All persons shall be excluded at
the closing hour, nor admitted, except
at prescribed hours, under penalty Of
s. for each ofiense.
4. No screen, blinds, painted win
dOws, curtains, or other device or OBJ
structOn shall be allowed, which
would obscure the view from the street
Of any one inside any bar-room of the
town, under "A penalty of not less than
s. nor more than go for each oiiense.
). Billiard and pool tables aud
games OF any character are forbidden
in every room aud in every adjoining
apartment IN which liquors are sold M
this corporation, under penalty of $40
for each offence.
6. No rear or side entrances to bar
rooms shall admit customers or visitors
to the proprietor, under penalty of
- for each Oflense.
Z. All drinking and selling in bar
rooms shall be within 30 feet OF the
front entrance under penalty Of y for
each oflense.
MIR. Wall moved the adoption Of the
ordinance and Mr.. Farrar seconded the
motion.
Mr.. Bugg was the first to speak to
the motion. He characterized the or
dinance as unjust, unfair and without
warrant Of public sentiment favoring
it, He believed where license tax Of
$500 is imposed it was paid only by
respectable men, as he considered those
who are now engaged in the sale Of
whiskey IN Farmville, and if they are
not respectable no license should be
granted them. He thought this move
was in the spirit of prohibition, and
vote having but recently been taken
on the subject of whiskey selling, to
adopt this ordinance would be unfaith-
full to voters and contrary to the wishes
Of majority OF our citizens. MI.
Bugg offered strong argument against
the adoption of the measure, cOnclud-
ing with the remark that there were
MANY more crimes than the selling Of
whiskey, a. for instance the merciess-
~ grinding Of widows and orphans, as
some people of his acquaintance were
guilty Of.
Mr.. Morris did not favor the mea-
sure. because Of the injustice ii would
be to proprietors Of saloons.
Dr. Anderson thought it decidedly
unjust TO say man shall not do BUSH
ness IN any part of his own house he
wishes TO. He could see no good, no
Justice. no object to be attained nor the
practicability in the passage of such an
ordinance.
Mr.. Gillian was the only gentleman
present who addressed the council ia
voring the ordinance. The object, he
said. was to save our boys He knew
it would keep out Of the bar-rooms
large number who now frequent them.
He believed the council had the right
to place these restrictions, and on the
other hand the whiskey seller has also
the right not to apply for license.
The vote ON being taken resulted a.
follows: For-Messrs. Gillian, Eram-
bert, Wall, Farrar and Davidson.
Agaiust-Messrs. Morris, Cralle, An
derson aud Bugg.
The following opinion from Judge
A. d. Watkins, town attorney was
pinned to the ordinance:
10 the Torn Council Of fdrDUViC, ia
GgNrLEMeN:-My opinion having
been asked as to the power of your
nOdy 10 pass ordinances regulating or
restricting the exercise of the privilege
To sell LIQUOR in the town. j respect
fully submit that under what Is known
"A the general welfare clause" OF your
charter YOU are empowered TO pass any
ordinance which may Oe necessary Tor
the preservation of the public morals
such as SURPRISING gambling, pro-
hbitiDg or restricting the sale Oh III