The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04
Bill To Be Sent to State LegisIa.
ture Making 81, 600 Minimum
Liquor License Fee
WOULD AFFECT ALL CITIES
The Bill Will Further Provide That No
Saloon Can be Opened Within
Five Hundred Feet of a Pub
lie School Building.

Liquor interests in Kenosha and other
cues of the state are concerned in a
bill to be introduced in the state Leg
islature this week, possibly today or
tomorrow, which viii make the mini
mum license in Wisconsin for LIQUOR
dealers, except registered pharmacists,
$1,000. The bill is to be offered by
Senator II. W. Barker of Sparta, who
will start the fight for higher license.
The senator championed such meas
ure before the legislature of 1907 and
lit mas all along been understood he
would renew. the fight early in the pres
ent session. He has other liquor meas,
ures in preparation, but at this time
will introduce only the high license bill
and another measure, providing that {
one-quarter of the license moneys re-
ceived by towns, cities or villages shall
be paid into the county treasury, the
iportion retained to be used as formerly
for the support of the poor, if the city,
town or village cares for its own poor,
or to be paid to the county treasurer
semi annually if the county system of
caring for the poor is in force.
The high-license bill covers a number
of points outside Of the mere increase
in the sum to be paid for licenses. 1t
increases the prohibited distances for
licenses from public or parochial schools
from 800 feet to 500 feet, and also pro-
vides tnat no license shall be granted
within two and one-half miles of the
| soldiers home at Milwaukee or within
| $500 feet of the main building of the
state university Ga direct slap at the
Hausman brewery in Madison), or with
in 1850 feet of any state normal school.
The bill provides:
Section l. Subsections 2, 5, and of
section 1,548 of the statutes, as amend
ed, are amended to read:
Section e. The sum to be paid for
such license shall be $1,000, except for
registered pharmacies as in this chapter
provided.
Section S. From and after June so,
1909, anything contained in any city
charter to the contrary Notwithstanding
no such license shall be granted to any
| pCIOOA VI pO4OOuO AO1 od1C VI any
such liquors in any building, booth or
other place for which a license is not
in force ON the 30th day of June, 1909,
within distance of 800 feet Of any
public or permanently established paro-
chial school grounds, said distance to
be measured upon the streets from the
boundaries Of the school grounds.
Whenever after Jan. 1, 1910, a list of
all the parents and lawful guardians Of
the children enrolled as pupils of any
public school or permanently established
parochial school, together with a re-
monstrance in writing, signed and
acknowledged before notary public by
a majority Of such parents and lawful
guardians. is filed with the city, village
or town clerk as the case may be, de-
scribing certain premises for which a
license had previously issued, within
800 feet of the grounds of said public
or parochial school, the distance to be
measured as aforesaid, and demand
| ing that no license be granted for the
sale of intoxicating liquors on such
premises, no such license shall there
after be granted to any person for the
! sale Of such liquors on such prem
Uses.