The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-10
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HOGS AND PIGS
Consider These and Let
Liquor Flow.
webb Bill 10 Restrict DistiIIeries in
kshevi!le Having Passed Senate
Gets @. K. From House
Committee.

tCVHiiHittee.
Remember TIE noss, pigs and COWS,
they need The Stops, remember tie
renters, the wives and children OF
whiskey distillery employees
Legislative courtesy ought not TO cut
any ice Senator Webb is the Bun
combe County Boss He need only TO
telegraph to Mark Reed and give MS
orders. they will be obeyed
That is some OF the lurid oratorg
that noWe2 from the representative of
certain interests in AsheVlNa who
yesterday before the House Commit
tee on Liquor Traffic opposed the
" ebb bill which aims to restrict tie
operations OF still houses in Ashe-
Vile.
But the Webb bill got the Q. *. Of
favorable report from the House
Committee. t has already passed the
Senate. ana being chamDi0ncd in the
House Committee by Senator Webb.
Representatives. Murphy and Glenn. 0t
buncombe. it was ~iven a unanimous
favorable report the first of March
was named as the date for the act 70
go in effect, this in executive session
by agreement OF the friends or the
bill,
Senator Webb was not chary in
-
ton. He denounced the action in OBJ
tanning license for stiils from the citv
fathers III AsheYilie as "trickery.''
paraded many of the diStillers now
doing business there as indicted aH
breakers, told how one had fed the
State, saying as he went that Bun
comba county is not big enough for
me and Judge shaw
L vas a regular hot stuff meeting
and there was verbal ciaWing and
scratching. The bill was opposed by
ex-Judge Thomas D. Jones of the
Criminal Court, now Police Justice,
and Nj. ]. A. Campbell of AsheVll2,
while Senator Webb bore the brunt OF
the other side, Representative Murphy
and Glenn holding UP his hands DY
saying they unQualitiedly endorsed the
bill The encounter was q bing-biff-
bang Of oratory. charge, counter
charge and skirmish.
The Asheville bill was explained 20
the committee in session in the SD
preme Court Library by Senator Webn.
Of Buncombe. He said that it was 10
permit no distillery in Asheviile to eX-
Ist with daily capacity OF less than
SO bushels, that penal bond not 70
violate the laws of AsheVille and the
State was required, no sales of less
than five gallons and no sales To par
ties without a license under penalty
imprisonment He urged that the bill
be passed and said that Mr. Mark L.
Reed. Of Ashevilie. in a banquet of
Democrats neld soon after the election
had declared that the stills in AsheVille
We're responsible for a disgraceful
state of affairs, the use Of liquor and
money in elections had brought on 4
state of affairs the Democrats would
not tolerate. aA
He Iold OF specihc cases where
liquor was used and that this came
from the six and three gallon stills.
whose owners he declared had violated
the laws. Some of these men had
been indicted he declared, and yet the
solicitor of the district was teie-
graphing to members of the General
Assembly TO kill this bill, acting in
behalf Of the distillers. men whom he
might have to prosecute. as these men
sold openly and to minors in defiance
Of law.
fIe told of the various stages of the
agitation in Asheviile. and said it was
by "trckery" that license was finally
granted: and defined his bill as simp-
~ an effort to curtail and restrict the
manufacture Of liquor in Asheville.
lie quoted Judge Boyd as saving that
the small manufacturers either de-
frauded the government or sold at re-
tail, ana District Attorney Holton that
without stealing from the government.
He urged for legal restrictions.
In referring to the Solicitor of the
District he said that with one distiller
indicted and one in three cases tne
Solicitor had said he could get twenty
more yet this solicitor was telegraph
ing here to members TO oppose the bill.
ut is a scandal cried Mr. Webb and
then he told how the distillers evaded
The Watts law by shipping into pro-
hibition territory With goods marked
harness. merchandise. nails, mineral
water and how che whose box h2n
been marked harness wanted to SUE
The railroad when the jugs were
broken. When questioned by Judge
Jones if he had Given notice to dis
tillers he replied NO l am not repre-
sentng a distillery nor am | consider
ing them" but that there had been
notice AS to having the Board OF
Commissioners settle the matter he
said he waited 20 get it out of politics.
and that if certain men renting to dis
tillers and the distillers had not kent
up the fight it would have ended long
ago.