The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-27
HOT AND FAST.
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with some heat Not a word of it.
Don't confuse the revenue office with
my office, governor. When / receive
complaint from any official or tenn
perance worker of any violation of
the law by bootleggers 1 at once turn
the matter over to the revenue col
lectors as am required to do by law.
That department makes investigation
and II its deputy collects the tax for
liquor license and so reports to me,
then am through with the case If
however, the deputy reports that he
could not collect the tax Immediate
ly investigate myself. If I can secure
the evidence I prosecute the offender
and punish him if L can. And want
to say here that during my four years
in office have. never failed in a sin
gle case to do my full duty and the
records will bear me out in this state
ment.''
"Is there no penalty asked the gov
ernor. where these boot1eggers vio-
late, the federal laws %
Not If they pay the tax to the col
lector on demand replied Mr. Bone
But where they do not pay the tax or
where there is evidence to show that
they are violating the internal revenue
laws, then they can be given 80 days
in Jail and fined not less than $780,
Continuing, Mr.. Bone declared that if
the persons reported pay their tax he
could do nothing. He said that where
a case was once fled with him with
the reoort that the tax had not been
paid he could not dismiss that case, but
must see it through if he could get the
that kind he said. and have always
prosecuted them to a finish
What do you do when a fellow gets
Il license and pays for 1t and yet has
no regular place of business? asked
the governor.
.'There is no law to cover that
point replied Mr.. Bone.
State Officers Handicapped
Then the governor entered into a
general description of how the state
officials were handicapped in their en-
forcement of the prohibitory law be-
the federal authorities. That the lat
ter, by their conduct, actually aided
the bootleggers in their business. He
said he had discussed this matter in
detail with the president and with
Commissioner Gable. He said that he
had been informed in Washington
that the whole matter was in the
hands of the district attorney here.
In reply to this, Mr.. Bone said: 81
can not and will not begin case with
out evidence. I have a letter in my
Office from my superiors instructing me
not to do so, as 1t only means loss of
time and money tosno purpose
Then the governor cited the case of
\
the city attorney there alleged that he
could not get the federal officials to
help him in convicting bootleggers.
This letter brought out the statement
from Mr.. Bone that a single sale of
liquor did not constitute a case against
the accused as the conductor of a re-
tail liquor establishment. 1.-TWO sepa-
rate witnesses were not necessary he
said, but more than one sale must be
made
In order to refute the governors
charge that he had not acted in a
single case. Mr.. Bone referred to the
suit he had conducted against the
Colony Cannery at Cincinnati, which
had been in the habit of making ship
ments of liquor to Larned and Dodge
City in packages sent to fictitious per-
sons c. o. D. He had forced pay
ment of the tax and broken I'D this
business in Kansas, refusing to COM
promise even when urged to do so by
the revenue department. The LIQUOR
people had been represented by coun-
sci in this case.
Mr.. Bone then again asked the
governor for retraction, and the
governor replied:
Il simply told what was told to me
and what I believe to be the truth"
Many Fiat Contradictions.
You said there were 367 cases ?"
replied Mr.. Bone, and I have proved
to you that there were not so many
and could not be. II that part of
your statement was not true, then the
statement as a whole could not be
held to be true
Then the discussion got hot again
There was a quarrel. The words mot
true" took the place of the short ugly
word of liar Each statement made
by the disputants was contradicted fiat
w. Neither would believe anything the
other said and expressed mis- doubts
openly and witfzoy- reservation. The
governor said he was not to blame for