Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-02-10
Bill To Preserve Integrity Of The
rIanu Law.

Bill 10 preserve integrity vi Ane
rlanu Law.
The general assembly will have a
chance to make life burden for the
Hfake' clubs when the Mann bill,
amending sections 141 and 142 OF the
revenue law, presented today, comes
up. e.;s,,
with United States license,
NOT daring to incur the displeasure OF
Uncle Sam and run the risk of certain
oonny,ction; but in certain localities,
AZ - e lid he"fake' clubs take chances
AGAINST conviction by the State ana
sell in defiance of the law. 1t Is TINS
last class which the amendmept TO-
day seeks to stop.
y Senator Mann, in discussing the
amendment, said: s.no
"It does not in any way eHect une
sale of pure apple cider, but in order TO
,reyent the sale of the spurious artl-
Gle which tends to diminish the sale
- +l,o nnre article, and really TO take
~ ,,Ioce of alcoholic drinks, the tol-
Inu F exception is made in the act:
Except pure apple cider, witnou I any
admixture whatever, except PIeeoi 20 o.
.tives not to exceed twenty grains ~
1The Judge said he had consulted
DR. Mapruder, who told him that
twenty grains of preservative was SUI,
fcienf for a gallon of cider. The phi
undertakes to bring distilleries under
the oDeratiOn of the "Mann Law,
that is. il provides that in all sections
where the mann Law" operates dis
tilleries shall procure license to man,
ufacture Just as saloons are required
to secure license. This provision was
made necessary by the action of the
distilleries, which, in many parts OF
the State, really take the place OF
saloons and in reference to when
Judge Mann stated that he had re-
.ceived a great many letters from
many sections of the State.
In cities under 10000 inhabitants
and in towns saloons must not be
nearer than 200 feet to churches ana
schools.
The license tax has in most cases
been raised, bnt not unreasonably,
and the word "magisterial' has been
inserted before districts in order to
settle questions which have occurred
as to the meaning of the word us
trict.N
The police protection contemplated
bv the new bill is that paid for by the
public. and those five words consul
tute one of the amendments to the
bill
The license to boats is restricted
to steamboats, running upon regular
schedule because of the abuse OF the
former law in this regard.
The punishment for the violation mas
been somewhat increased, and after
the first offense, bond is required, which
is forfeited by violation of the law.
Jail punishment for the first offense is
in the discretion of the jury, as in the
present law, but for the second and
succeeding offenses, has to be IN
hicted.
The law in reference to keeping
omen saloons and selling liquor on
Sunday is practically the act approved
March Is, 1904, except that the jail
penalty which was stricken out by an
amendment to that act, is restored.
Section 142 requires all social clubs
to procure license as required by sec
ton al, and provides that they shall
be entitled to all the privileges, and
subject to all the restrictions, condi-
lions and penalties imposed by that
section.
Judge Mann said that he had gone
very fully into the evils inflicted on
society by the flake" clubs; that the
present law was an effort made at the
| last session of the legislature TO break
up those clubs without interfering
with the real clubs against which
Judge Mann said he had no complaint
to make, but that after trying in
every conceivable way and talking to
a great many people on the subject
with a view of devising some plan by
which the fake club could be destroyed
without any reference to the real club,
he found it impossible to devise any
plan except the one contained III
his bill.
These are all the material changes
made by the present bill in the law as
it stands today, and these changes
would not have been sought, but they
appeared to be necessary to preserve
the integrity of the "Mann law"
Judge Mann said that he was not dis
posed to ask for any radical measure
that he thought these laws should be
the crvstalization of public sentiment,
and he only wanted to carry into ef-
feet that sentiment, and that the pur-
pose of his bill was simply to protect
the "Mann law" which he believed
was favored by a large majority OF
the people of this State, and which
had been productive of great good IN
the rural districts in Virginia.-News-
Leader, 9th.