The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-26
AGAINST INVASION OF
INALIENABLE RIGHTS.
NO. is!

- ~ 49, &c ~ 49,"
Another of the bills awaiting action
by the Legislature against enactment
whereof the German-American Central
Alliance representing Approximately
10000 citizens. taxpayers and voters of
this S~tate-enters its protest, is Senate
No. 1S1, introduced by Senator Avis.
This bill has for its object the crea-
ton in the State Service of three
more $4,000 per year and one more So, 900
devoted to the powers that be in the
State Executive office and the Senate
chamber, and incidentally to saddle
upon the saloon-keepers and other deal
ers in the products of the brewery, the
distillery and the vineyard an addi-
tional fee of IS yearly. 1t provides for
appointment by the Governor, "by n
with the advice and consent of the SEN
ate of a State board for the revocation
of licenses, to consist of three members,
with $4,000 salary each per year and
power to appoint, Immediately upon its
organization, a clerk to receive 81, 1000
salary per year. The term of office of
members of the board is to be five
years, and their functions, according to
the text of the bill, are to be-:
whenever any citizen of this State
shall file with the clerk of said board a
petition in writing, duly verified, al
leging the violation of the excise laws
of the State by any holder of a license
of any excise board or other licensing
authority, to sell spirituous. vinous or
malt liquors, it shall be the duty of
said board to cause a notice thereof,
together with a copy of said petition, to
be served forthwith upon said alleged
violator and to direct the appearance of
such alleged violator before such board
at a short time and at a place in said
notice to be designated, at which time
and place the said board shall convene
and hear the proofs presented or the
part of said petitioner and on behalf of
ing shall, if in the Judgment of said
board, or of a majority of its members,
the allegations of said petition shall be
sustained, then and there revoke the
said license of said alleged violator, or
else, If satisfied that the allegations of
said petition are not sustained, shall
dismiss said petition"
A 1900 and expenses per year State
machinery to be created to do what?
That which, as every man of sane in
~telligence in the State knows, by the ex-
listing excise laws, and especially by the
so-cal1ed tsbfshoDs law" is already given
into the power of all bodies authorized
to grant licenses for the sale of spiritu-
Gus, vinous or malt liquors in this State!
And not only given into their power,
but made MANDATORY upon them to
do, at the peril of indictment for nom
~feasance or malfeasance in Office in case
of neglect or refusal to do it.
1t is alleged that the Governor has in
huenced and urged the introduction of
that bill. If so, is that gentleman will
ing or anxious to have go abroad in the
State the idea that he regards the mem
bers of the excise boards and other
licensing authorities constituted under
the present excise avs as scamps, not
to be trusted for faithful performance
of the duties upon them imposed by
law, and which to perform they have
solemnly sworn. and that, therefore, the
welfare Of the people requires that they
be su%pplanted by a state board for the
express purpose of revoking licenses2
Press Bureau German American Gem
trial Alliance, Newark, n. J.