Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1906-04-16
Claim Is Now Made that Excise
Board Clause Makes the
Measure Defective.
WHAT IT CALLS FOR.
An Outline of the Bishops Bill As Il
Was Finally Passed and Now
Stands on the Statute Books of the
State - Provides That County
Judges Shall Name the Excise
Boards in Cities-Lawycrs Differ.

TRENTON, Apr. 16.-No measure
passed by the Legislature has equaled
ed 1.-The bishops BILL" which was
passed last week and Immediately
approved by the governor. 1t is now
chapter ia of the laws of New Jer-
sey, session of 1906. The provisions
of the new law are outlined as fol-
lows: First, the bill provides for new
license fees, as follows:
Retail Liccnse-Under One Quart.
Population under 5000 800
Population between 5000 and
10000 .............. | so
Population over 10000 $500
Wholesale Licensc-Over One Quart.
Population under 5000 500
Population between 5000 and
lO,O0O ............ ......$ l 90
Population exceeding 10000 $500
This increases the retail license in
large cities from $3.50 TO $500. 1t
$3.50 to $500 in the same places. The
fees in small towns are left as they
were before. The wholesale dealers
license was doubled by mistake, it is
alleged. Originally, the bill provided
for $500 license for both retail and
retail increase by the brewers was so
strong that it was cut down to $500
in big places. The wholesalers were
forgotten and their fee was left as it
was in the measure as originally pro-
posed. 1t will affect all grocers and
bottlers and large dealers.
Sale Sunday and to Miners.
The next section in the bill refers
to Sunday selling and sales to min
ors, intoxicated persons, etc. Much
has been said of this, but as a matter
of fact, the provisions are just about
the same as they are in the present
law. Sales to persons under 2 years
old, to those of confirmed intemper-
ate habits, and to those who are
drunk are forbidden, as at present,
and all sales on Sunday are prohibit
ed. No saloon is to allow a minor to
lounge in it, nor are thieves, prosti-
tutes or disOrderly persons to be per-
mitted. This is the law as it stood
for years. Any two persons may
make complaint to the excise board
or court granting the license, and if
after investigation the charge is
found true, the license is to be revok-
ed. This provides new and more
certain method of Furnishing the vio-
lators of the law.
The New Restrictions.
Now comes the important part of
the new law 1t is also the part which
is least easily understood. The first
part follows:
II. No license shall be granted to
sell spirituous, vinous, malt or brew
ed liquors by less measure than one
quart in any store, shop, apartment
or place in which a grocery or other
mercantile business (eXcepting the
keeping of restaurant, or the sale
of tobacco and cigars by retail) is car
ried on, or in any new place within
200 feet of the curtilage of a church
edifice school house or armory,
measuring between the nearest point
of the same and the nearest point of
the building wherein such liquors, or
any of them, are intended to be sold;
or if not in an inn and tavern, or q
hotel having at least 10 spare rooms
and beds for the accommodation of
boarders, transient and travellers, or
a restaurant where the business of
furnishing meals to the public, for
compensation, is regularly carried on,
and which restaurant is conducted
and operated on more than one floor
or story of the building where such
business is carried on, or a picnic or
recreation ground, or building with
a bowling alley, or building entirely
occupied by a regularly organized
club or association, in any place, upon
the ground floor or basement of a
building on public street
Now, after much examination, the
lawyers agree that this means that
no retail license shall be granted to
any place except bar Cor business
room, whatever that may mean) ,
which is located upon the ground
floor or basement of a building on a
public street. 1t expressly forbids
licenses to stores, shops, apartments,
groceries or other mercantile houses.
But there are favored ones. Lii
censes may be granted to cigar stores
hotels having ten spare rooms, res
taurants where the business is regu-
larly carried on in two different stof-
les of the building, bowling alleys
| picnic or recreation grounds, or Duilu-
ings entirely occupied by CLUBS or as
sociations All these need not be Oh
the street.
The Screen Law.
And then comes the screen law.
All saloons except restaurants on
two floors, bowling alleys, ciuDs' no.
tells, picnic grounds, are required TO
be SO arranged that clear view Of
t..e bar can be obtained from the
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