Arizona republican., 1910-06-28
NEW ATTACK
 ON SALOON PPecipitated By Application For E. Adams St. Saloon THE LEAGUE REsURRECTs Act 80 of Legislature of 1903 Which Prohibits Lii censes For Saloons With in Six Miles of Any Pub lie. Work
THE LEAGUE REsURRECTS

The Anti-saloon league has begun an attack upon the liquor traffic of this city from another side The assault is made under the cover of act so of the legislature of 1903 and the mem bers of the league are wondering why they never availed themselves of the operation of this act before.
 H. M. Ford made application to the board of supervisors for a license to conduct a saloon on East Adams street in a room adjoining the English kitch- en. No action, for want of a quorum, could be taBBn upon the application which yesterday came to the knowl edge of the league. Attorney J. H. LangstOn. a charter member of the league, and who had not until recently been regularly employed as it's attor- ney, called upon the sheriff and form ally protested against the issuance of the license on the ground that it was forbidden by act SO, which was de- signed for the protection of construc- ton camps against peripatetic saloons. Tn fact, it was passed at the instance of railroad officials and contractors, rather than at that of temperance workers who had only a general inter- est in the legislation.
 But act 80 provides that no license for the sales of malt, spirituOus or vinous liquors shall be issued to any one within six miles of any grading camp for the construction or repair of railroad or where as many as twenty-five men are employed on any reservoir, canal or public work It is the contention of the attorney for the league that there are more than twen- ty-five men employed on the Center street bridge. which is a public work and that such work is within less than six miles of the saloon that Ford isl proposing to start.
 There are two main sections of the act, the first prohibiting the issuance of the license, and the second pro- hibiting the sale of liquor within the above described radius, but it is stat ed that the provisions of this section (Dot of the whole act )shall not apply to the sale of liquor under licenses is- sued six months prior to the establish ment of the construction camp or the beginning of the public work which is to create a dry circle twelve miles in diameter.
 So, if the ground taken by the Anti saloon league is found to be good, no licenses held by the established saloon could be re-issued while the center street bridge work is in progress or while any public work, such as the construction of the federal building is going on.
 Nor would any of the licenses issued last spring after the hearings by the board of charges by the league against half dozen or more of the saloons be valid inasmuch as they were issued within less than six months prior to lthe beginning of work on the Center istreet bridge.
 The act was passed with practical fly no opposition and with little debate The established saloon keepers saw no danger in it, and the men who were urging it were not unfriendly to the saloon business on principle; they were only after the tent saloons which had been set up on the outskirts of the construction camps and moved with the camps, keeping a large num- Der of the employed incapacitated half the time.
 It is certain that this matter will ultimately come before the courts. where on one side will be raised the plain language of the law and on the other the intent of the legislature