Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-14
The Legislature.
SENATE.

the following members on the part OF
the Senate to meet the Maryland oyster
commissioners: Walker, Keezsll, Saun-
ders, Gunter and Parsons, and Spesker
Byrd Damed the following members OF
The House to meet the MarylanderS:
James Z. Cation, Roosevelt Page, John
K. Row, T. A. Jet, NJ. NJ. Greene, O.
s. Peudleten and w. W. Old, il.
Senator Ward offered bill which
empowers councils to prescribe jail sem
fences in cases Of assault and battery,
receiving stolen goods, gambling, carry
ing concealed weapons and vsgrsncy.
Senator Ward also offered a bill pro-
yiding for the sale of stock held BY the
State 10 internal improvement compa-
MES where no dividends have been paid
| for fifteen yesrs.
Senator Folkes offered bill which
has for its purpose the leyying OF tax
on the real and personal property OF all
FIRE, life and mutual benefit, live stock
and fraternal insurance bodies.
Senator Chase offered bill which sP-
propriates the sum Of $3.50, 600 for the
purpose OF supplying school books free
Of charge TO all public school pupils In
the Stale. The bill provides that the
fund shall be apportioned to the cities
and counties according to school popu'
lsliOn.
The Senate committee on 6,h and
game has made unanimous adverse re-
port of the Watkins bill which sought
to break the Baylor survey.
Senator Parks called up his resolution
which calls upon the Virginia delegation
10 Congress to vote for sny measure
which looks to closing the gates against
the "scum from southern Europe" and
it was passed.
Senator Walker, chairman Of the
committee on fish and game, reported,
With recommendation that it do not
pass. The bill for breaking the Baylor
survey, and providing for the leasing
of the oyster grounds. The House COM
miltee on Chesapeake bay and its tribu-
tsres, also BY unanimous vote, agreed
to report the bill adversely.
The Senate passed a bill to prohibit
the delivery of any package containing
wine, ardent spirits, or malt liquor, or
any mixture of any of them, except to
the party to whom such package is billed
or shipped.
HOUSE
Speaker Byrd's liquor bill, codifica.
ton of all existing statutes regulating
the sale, distribution and manufacture
of intoxicating liquors, was reported TO
the House yesterday from the committee
ON counties, cities and towns with the
recommendation that it pass.
If the proposed bill is enacted In law,
1t will mean prohibition In every city
and town in the State except those hav-
ing five hundred or more Inhabitants.
Another feature is tie section which pro.
hibits the sale Of intoxicating liquor at
health resorts aud communities contigu-
Gus to incorporated cities having police
protection.
Among the sections Of the bill is one
to give the right of search of places
where liquor is kept for illegal sales, to
declare such places nuisances and to al
low the cour.s to issue iDjunctions
agairs. them. Dispenssries, under the
bill, are prohibited from selling outside
oftheir districts and il moreover prohibit
common carriers from delivering liquor
to any person except the actual consignee
The commissioner of agriculture will
he rcqlired, II The bill Is passed, to
analyze samples of liquor sent lin, and
the burden of proof, where any drink
has produced intoxication, will be upon
the defendant to prove that 1t was not
intoxicating liquor under the meaning
of the act.
The Mann law lie referred to in the
measure, In the section which requires
that all distileries making less than
thirty barrels day shall be subject to
its dictates. The bill prohibits the sale
OF liquor between twelve o'clock mid
night and six o'clock 10 the morning,
and all places where intoxicants are sold
will be closed on Christmas day, Sunday
and election days.
The license set down in the bill to re-
tsilers OF ardent spirits Is $3.50 in towns
Of less than 1000 inhabitants, and in
towns above this limit s400 shall be
paid. This license does not apply to
the sale of pure cider, which may be
manufactured by the mau growing the
fruit. The license to cell cider is fixed
st SIS. Wholesale liquor dealers will
be taxed $500.
Mr.. Williams introduced bill to To-
crease the salary of the chairman OF the
State Corporation Commission and the
clerk, and to increase the clerical force
of the commission. The bill provides
that the chairman shall receive 81, 500
annually instead of 81, 900, and that the
clerks salary shall be rsised from 81, 800
to So, 900.
The committee on insurance aud bank
ing of both Houses, sitting In joint seq
sion disposed of the bill providing for
STATE bank examiner, and by vote Of
9 to II decided that no bill for that pur-
pose be recommended 10 this General
Assembly.
OSing to the lateness Of the session,
and the uniform stability and few fail
ures 10 the banking institutions of the
State, the House committee on banking
aud insurance yesterday agreed to dis
charge from consideration all bills rela-
tiys to banks, notable Colonel Wingo's
bill to create State bank examiners.
The appropriation bill was submitted.
Il is Jet in skeleton form, and the ag-
gfegsie increases have not been figured
out, but it is known that these increases