The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-07
ADOPT ARMSTRONG BILL
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON TEMPER
ANCE HOLDS ANOTHER PUB
Lie MEETING
WINE ROOMS TO BE ABOLISHED
Representatives of st. Paul. Mime
npOlis and saltwater Present
Their Views on the
Subject.

The honse committee on temperance
has at last decided upon a method for
ahohshing the wine room. The ARM
strong bill slightly modified, introduced
early in the session and which has been
previously reviewed, was last night
adopted by the majority of the COM
mlttee as the one which would be recon.
mended for passage. The actual measure
thus acted upon was a substitute bill
presented to the committee last night by
Mr.. Armstrong. 1t merely eliminates the
clause in the original bill which provided
that the curtains and other Instructions
should be removed during the hours
when the saloon is required by law TO be
closed.
The committee met last night publicly
for the third time and there was d rep
reSentatNe attendance of the temperance
people, including many prominent citi-
zens of st. Paul, Saltwater and one or
two from Minneapolis
Vt the last meeting of the committee
Judge NetheWay, of Saltwater, IN a
speech upon the wine room question. ad-
Vised that a different measure than the
Armstrong bill be introduced and a sub,
committee was then appointed to take
TINS proposition under consideration
Last night the subcommittee reported
blll drafted by Judge NetheWay. This
bul contained three essential provisions
II first made it an offenSe for any female
to enter a saloon or place where intoxi.
cants are sold; second. it penalized the
act ot man taking or accompanying any
female III saloon, and, third. it pro-
hlolted amy Saloonkeeper from selling
nquor To or allowing female to enter
his place of business.
The penalty which the bill attached for
violation of this act was a fine not to
exceed 500 and term of Imprisonment
not more than ninety days Its pro-
visions were rot to apply to the brother
father or husband Of a woman who
should enter saloon accompanied by
man.
NETHEWAY BILL IMPRACTICAL.
Attorney ]. D. O'Brien, of this city,
was one who addressed the committee
lie thought the Netheway bill not as
eHectual or practical as the Armstrong
measure. He believed that if passed it
would be difficult to enforce for %Wo es-
sentlaI reasons-tirst, that it would be
held as an infringement on personal
rights, and second, that it would be
attacked on the grounds, of being un-
constitutional. Mr.. OBrien stated that if
the committee was DESTROYS of bringing
about some adequate remedy for the gen
eraliy accepted evils of the wine room.
they ought to adopt the Armstrong bill
IN MS argument he said that the bill of
Judge NetheWay would result in the pun
lshHent of innocent parties quite fire.
quently. An innocent victim might be
enticed into a wine room by a male es-
cort, and when found there placed I'M
der the Odium of arrest and conviction
for a crime which was forced upon her
by false misrepresentation.
These were practically the sentiments
advocated by all those who appeared in
the interest of anti-wine room leg1sla-
ton. All the speakers advocated the
Armstrong bill in preference to that
drafted by Judge NethewayH and sub
mitted by the subcommittee, and urged
that it devolved rightly upon the legis-
lature to take some action that would
provide means of abolishing the wine
room.
Besides Mr.. O'Brien those who spoke
were the following: State Superintendent
Beatty, of Minneapolis, of the Anti
Saloon league; Robert "A. Kirk, president
of the firm of Farwell Ozmun, Kirk 4,
Co; r. B. Ebelin, II. c. Fairchild, Will
liam Faux, Joseph McKibbon, of the
wholesale firm of st. Paul; Mrs. Boomer,
of the Woman's Temperance League of
Saltwater; John O'Brien, president of
Father Mathews Temperance society; F.
w. Gail an attorney, and the Rev.
Phillip Thelander, of the same city. Sen