The Jersey City news., 1906-04-04
Senate Yesterday Adopted
the Amendments Proposed
By the iscellaneousCem-
mittee to the Bishops Bill
ALL INTERESTS DISPLEASED
WHEN THE MEASURE COMES UP
TO-DAY THE CLERGY WILL
FIGHT FOR THE PASSAGE Or
#DEFEAT oF THE ORIGINAL
MEASURE PRESENTED By
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TRENTON. April 4, 1906. -Stung by
the denunciatory resolutions adopted by
the Interdenonainational conference at
meeting held in this city on Monday, the
Senate took the bull by the horns yester-
| day when the bill came IN for second
reading and adopted all of the amend
ments except one proposed by Senator
Avis, chairman of the Miscellaneous
Business Committee.
The character of the Bishops bill has
been so vastly changed by these amend
ments that it is now merely skeleton
1 of what it was when introduced. All of
the drastic provisions have been elimin-
ated and amendments inserted which
will make the measure pleasing to the
liquor interests. The screen question has
been so modified that the excise board of
leach municipality will have the right to
decide whether they shall be retained or
| taken down. In other words each muni-
| cipality can regulate Sunday selling. If
the screens are ordered removed Sunday
selling will cease.
| Neither the clergy nor the liquor inter-
ests are satisfied. The clergy will insist
upon the passage of the Bishops bill as
originally presented, or its defeat as
whole, while the brewers and liquor men
are struggling for a modification Of the
! clause relating to the joint liability Of the
saloonkeeper and owner of the building
in case of excise violations. They claim
that this provision places them at the
mercy Of the landlord.
If the Senate should adopt the Bishops
bin with the Avis amendments, the fight
will continue in the House. The majority
Of the House members are opposed to the
Bishops bill.
| The Avis amendments adopted by the
Senate yesterday were:
| Eliminates the provision Of the Bish
ops bill that liquor 'shaiI be drunk on
or about the premises where Sold" Al
SO the provision. requiring the joint ap-
plication Of the landlord and saloon
keeper in applying for license. Makes
the license $500 instead of $500 as the.
clergy asked for in all municipalities hav-
ing over 10000 population. Limits the
age of minors from 81 to 18 years who
may obtain liquor in saloon. Requires
the evidence Of two persons instead Of
| one in cases Of violation of the law and
that no license shall be declared forfeited
until the saloonkeeper has been given q
fair and impartial trial and is convicted.
1t also provides that in case license
be revoked, the person to who the same
was granted shall be disqualified for one
year for receiving license an This State
and for the same period thereafter no Ii
cense shall be granted in the premises for
which the forfeited license was granted.
Section 5 of the Bishops bill was en-
tirely eliminated and amendment No. II
adopted to take its place. 1t reads.
No license shall be granted to sell
spirituous, vinous, malt or brewed 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 a restaurant. or
the sale of tobacco and cigars by retail
lis carried on. on in any new place
within two hundred feet of the curtilage
of church edifce, schoolh0use, or ar
| mory, measured 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 hotel
having at least ten spare rooms and beds
for the accommodation of boarders, tram
sients and travellers. or restaurant
where the business Of furnishing meals
Ito the public, for compensation, is reg
ularly carried on, and which restaurant
Is conducted and operated on more than
one foer Or story of the building where
such business is carried on, or building
entirely occupied BY regularly organized
I.club or association, in any place, except
/ in bar or business room. upon the
Colds Cause Sore Throat