The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-03-10
SALOON BILL A
BOOMERANG
Legislative Majority Doubts
It's Wisdom ii Rushing
Hutchinson's Mea-
sure Through
STORMOFpROTEST RESULTS
Law Is Supposed to Relate
Only to New Places But
It May Be Otherwise
Construed.
Especial to The Jersey city News. y,

| TRENTON, March 10, 1905. Mem
bers Of the Legislature outside Mercer
county are beginning to doubt their wis
dom in permitting Senator Hutchinson s
! bill prohibiting the sale of liquor within
200 feet Of a school, church or armory
70 be rushed through as it was. It was
introduced Monday night, and both
houses passed it Wednesday. It is now
signed ana is, therefore, u law. A lot
Of trouble is liable to result, and legis-
lators are on the anxious seat.
Protests were received from all parts
Of the State against the bill, but they
| arrived too late to be of any avail, for
the bill, after passage by the House,
again received a swift push and went
| to the Governors office, where the same
parties who had Iohbied the bill through
the Legislature had it approved and
made law last night and filed with
tnt A'SSA ctfiAS u bctfttS,
For the first time, it would appear
from the debate that took place in the
Senate on the bill. law of the State
prohibits the opening Of any new places
where liquors may be sold within 200
feet Of any three sorts of buildings men
toned.
Although the bill relates to ''new
places" there has arisen the question
whether or not the law would apply in
eases where the present owner or licensee
Of a saloon or restaurant where liquor
is sold might desire to renew the license
or to sell to another party Some law
yers think the act might be so construed
by some judges.
The text Of the act is as follows:
An act TO amend an act entitled An
net to regulate the sale Of spirituous,
vinous, malt and brewed liquors, and to
repeal an act entitled An act to regn-
| late the sale Of Intoxicating and brewed
liquors, passed March seventh, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight,
approved March tweatieth. one thousand
eight hundred and eighsy-IiEe.
| BE it enacted by the Senate and Gsii-
eraI Assembly OF the State Of New
Jersey:
q: Section eleven Of an act entitled
AN act to regulate the sale Of spiritu-
ous, 2vinous, malt and Drewea liquors,
and to repeal an act entitled AN act TO
regulate the sale of intoxicating and
brewed liquors. passed Marea seventh.
one thousand eight hundred and eighty
eight approved March twentieth. cne
thousand eight nunlred and eighty-nine,
| is hereby amended SO as 20 read as fol
laws:
| 80. No license to sell spirituous, vi
nous. malt or brewed liquors by less
measure. than one quart shall be granted
| by any court excise board or other board
or authority having power to grant Ii
| censes in any store, apartments or place
4 in which any grocery store or mercan-
tile business is carried on excepting,
however the keeping Of a restaurant
/ and the sale of tobacco and cigars by
! retaiD, nor any new place within tive
hundred feet of q church, sehoolhouse OF
armory; the two hundred feet limit here
in mentioned shall be ascertained by
! measurement from the nearest point OF
] the church edifce. schoolhouse or arm
ory to the nearest point Of the building
| wherein such liquors Of any of them art
intended to be sold; any person, whether
licensed or unlicensed, engaging in the
i sale of any of said liquors, directly q
\ indirectly. contrary to the provisions Of
this section. shall be guilty Of the Of
tense Of keeping disorderly house.
g. This act shall take effect imme-
diafely
The bill applies only to retail establish
ments. but If the law should be found g
I apply to places already in existence With
IN 200 feet Of saloons, churches and ar
mories, il would wipe out several hun-