The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-27
WAR ON aBLIND TIGERS
DALLAS GRAND JURY ISSUES ITS FIAT.
Internal Revenue Collector Will Be Called on to Divulge Names of
 Persons to Whom Has
 Been Issued License.
Advertiser Bureau,

| Advertiser Bureau, l.. @ Selma, Jan. 26. Not satisfied with it's previous attemytss
 to adduce evidence against blind tigers | the grand jury of the City Court ot Selma today took a recess Of two weehs during which an effort will be maoe .o | find sufficient evidence to DrinR inuiSe Iments against alleged violators of the pro hibition laws whose name. if the popular voice rings true. is legion. | And what is of more interest. 1T no. | of more importance. Is the point tnat may be raised by national officers when : applies to the collector of internal reve- nues in Birmingham for list Of persons resident in the arid portions of the coun, | ty to whom the department or internal revenues has given license to sell mat. | spirituous, or vinous liuuors in contraven- | ton of the laws of the Commonwealth | of Alabama, for the edict went forth rom the head of the department that tne names of these persons should not pc disclosed to local officers seeking evidence against them. It Is not improbable that Mir. Morris will be denied access to tne information he Is asked by the grand jury | to obtain, and the refusal of federal or fcials to assist State and county omcers | to execute the laws Of the State, though | 1t might be legal, constitutional, and Qulte in accord with the wishes of the powers | that be, would be indeed edifying.
 I Seldom, if ever, has there been sucn positive talk about the prevalence Of the illicit sale of liquor in those portions of Dallas County which are without tne corporate limits of Selma and in wn.cn Int ,s
 drinks. Rumors and reports tnas throughout all the countryside men were I trafficing in liquors of all sorts have been rife and the grand jury met a popu,n. na. senuent betterment of this phase of rural life. 1t was 11:l5 this morning when the grand jury entered the court room Sna been found, submitted to Hon, J. w.
 Mabry, judge presiding. the following
 Resolved. That this grand jury ,soi take a 2 10 a. m., when 1t will take up diligently all violations of the prohibition law or Dallas County Meantime all persons who are interested in the enforcement or this law be asked to furnish conf1dennaliy to the Solicitor or the foreman all inior- nation in their possession on this subject in their respective communities, and par ticularly any and all names of reliable
 w,'Hasses us %isSout ~HS delay. All delinquent license payers are warned to pay up meanwhile. "W. G. Duncan, Foreman. Selma, Ala, Jan. 26. 1904:
 The court honored the petition for the
 Judge Mabry stated that the request for
 so long term as two weeks was without precedent in his service on the pencI, but he said he saw no impropriety in such
 course. Hon. W. W. Quarles, the States counsel, when interrogated by Judge Mabry, said that there was no | illegality in the proceeding.
 W. W. Morris. a member of the grand l jury. was delegated to obtain from the | internal revenue ofice in Birmingham | list of persons to whom had been issued by the department licenses for the sale Of | liquors in those parts of Dallas County | where the traffic is forbidden by law and Mir. Morris left this afternoon to perform | his mission.
 Several weeks ago, the presiding officer | of the Department of International Reve- | nues in washi' Rton ordered that in the l future the names of these persons should | not be divuiged to local officers and the
 result of the grand jurys act is a source | of interest It Is probable that the of- flcers in Birmingham can legally and con- | additionally refuse to afford to the grand jury the information it seeks, but the
 propriety of the national government re- fusing to assist in the execution of State
 laws is seriously questioned.
 Speaking of this today Solicitors ouarles
 said:
 Tn view of the comity existent between
 the federal government and the State
 government it would seem that the latter
 should receive assistance in the execution
 of It's laws law should be passed by the
 Congress providing that internal revenue
 licenses should not be issued by the
 national government where local laws
 prohibited the sale of liquors"