Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
REAL Joker IN THIS BILL
PROHIBITION RIDER TO FEEDER
AL INCORPORATION ACT.
But It's All Simply Because the
Government Printers Got the
Pages Mixed.

Some peculiar and complicated and in
volved bills have been introduced in Con-
sress in the years ii has been legislating
for the republic. 1t is also charged thai
jokers have been attached to bills. that
relate to entirely different subjects.
But senators who have been reading the
administration federal incorporation bill
are wondering whether a joker has been
inserted in the bill, so that it will pro-
vide for stricter regulation Of the sale of
intoxicating liquors in the District OF Co
lumbia.
In reading over Senator Clark Dill Tor
federal incorporation in the prints which
have been furnished them senator's have
come to a passage like this:
But the holders Of at least majority
of the stock shall be required to be pres
emit in person or by proxy to constitute
quorum for the transaction of business.
but a smaller number may be authorized
to adjourn the meeting from the time
which hours and on Sundays ana legal
HOLIDAYS no intoxicating liquors shall be
sold or otherwise dispensed that no mi,
nor under the agesof eighteen years shall
be allowed to enter or be permitted to re-
main In any place where intoxicating
liquors are sold, other than a hotel and
so on for several pages, about liquor SELL
ing in the District of Columbia.
Makes Curious Reading.
Those who have had an interest in the
Bennett bill for the stricter regulation of the
sale of Intoxicating liquors in the District
have discovered this remarkable provision In
the copies furnished them from the gov
eminent printing office:
THAT under the license issued in ac-
cordance with this act no intoxicating
LIQUORS shall be sold, given or in any way
dispOsed of to any minor or intoxicated
persons, nor between the hours of
10 o clock in the evening and O'CLOCK IN
the morning, during which last-named
hours and on Sundays and legal hoildays
every barroom and other place where
Intoxicating liquors are sold shall be
kept closed for all purposes and during
the time until a quorum shall be obtained.
The bylaws shall also provide regulations
for the issue of new certificates OF stock
In place of lost or destroyed certificates
And for forty more pages there are reg
ulations for corporations chartered by the
United States.
One representative read this and SUBJ
sequent passages, read again the title
TO better regulate the traffic in intoxi-
eating liquors in the District of Colum-
bia''-and wondered if reading about
LIQUORS intoxicates.
Senators who procured copies of the
federal incorporation bill felt sure that
President Taft would not try to incor-
porate joker in his bill to restrict the
sale of liquor in the District: but there it
vas in the copies of the bill furnished
them.
How It All Happened.
But it has been explained without an
appeal to the President. In the binding
of the bills at the government printing
office part of the Bennett liquor bill was
grated into the federal incorporation bin
and much of the Incorporation bill was
included in the liquor bill.
The prints of the two bills now in the
document rooms and in the offices of
senators and representatives will be re-
called an dnew ones substituted. Rep
resentative Bennett is freed from any
suspicion that he wanted to have the
federal incorporation bill as minor pro-
vision of the bill to regulate the sale of
liquor in the District.