The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-12-03
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Washington, Dec 3.-Another
phase in the great campaign against
liquor will come to the fore the first
of the month, when the revised penal
code of the United States is to be-
come effective. Many of the changes
made in the penal laws by the Six
tieth congress were of minor import
ance, but the section relating to the
shipment of intoxicating liquors into
dry" territory contained new legis-
lation, the result of which will be
to make the United States a factor
in prosecuting violators of the act
In thickly settled communities the
local authorities, as a rule, are able
to deal effectively with offenders, but
in certain sections of the south and
west, where settlement is sparce, the
task is not so easy, and the members
of congress from those sections insist
ed that the federal government should
come to the aid of the local authori-
ties.
Three sections of the new codifica
ton relate to the liquor traffic. The
most important provision is that on
and after January l every shipment
of intoxicating liquor shall bear the
name of the cOnsignee, the nature of
the contents of the receptacle and the
quantity contained therein 1t is a
notorious fact, so say persons who
have had experience in attempting to
drive out blind tigers that prac-
tically all the liquor now shipped into
prohibited territory is labelled as
some other commodity, or not labelled
at all, and frequently addressed to
persons other than the consignee.
The federal authorities already
have sent out notice to all manufac-
turers of intoxicants that their wares
must be labelled on the outside of
the contents and the exact amount in
each package. 1t is believed that if
the local authorities cooperate with
the federal government in the en-
forcement of the law it will be a
comparatively easy matter to suppress
the blind tigers 1t is pointed out
that from now on they cannot exist
without violating the federal statute,
and the assumption of the depart
ment of justice is that would-be vio-
lators will not care to take the
chance of falling into the clutches of
the federal courts.
1t has been alleged from time to
time that in some of the states where
the sale of intoxicating liquor has
been prohibited in one way or an
other the railroads and express COM
panies assisted the violators of the
law by acting as buying Or selling
agents. or both. Congress, with the
idea of putting stop to this practice,
provided as follows: ANY railroad
company, express company, or other
common carrier, or any other person
who. in connection with the transpor-
tation of any spirituous, vinous.
matted. fermented, or other intox-
icating liquor of any kind, from one
state, territory or district of the Unit
ed States into any state, territory or
district of the United States, or from
any foreign country into any state,
territory or district of the United
States, shall collect the purchase price
or any part thereof, before, on. or
after delivery, or shall in any manner
act as the agent of the buyer or sell
er of any such liquor, for the pur-
pose of buying or selling or complet-
ing the sale thereof, saving only in
the actual transportation AMI deliv-
cry of the same, shall be fined not
more than $4,000"