Bisbee daily review., 1910-07-06
OLO LAW INVOKED
 AGAINST SALOONS
LEAGUE DISCOVERS WEAPON LONG NEGLECTED IN THE ARI- IONA 1903 STATUTES.

PHOENIX July 5-The Anu-Sa- loon 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 leg islature of 1903 and the members of the league are wondering why they never ayailed themselves of the op- eration of this act before.
 H. M Ford made application to the board of supervisors for a h. .cense to conduct a saloon On East Adams street in a room adjoining the English kitchen. No action, for want of a quorum, could be taken upon the application, which yester- day came to the knowledge of the league. Attorney J. H. Langston. a charter member of the league and who had not until recently been reg plarly employed as its attorney, called upon the sheriff and formally protested against the issuance of the license on the ground that 1t was forbidden by Act 30, which was de- signed for the protection of coustruc- ,ion camps against peripatetic sa- looms. Tn fact, it was passed at the instance of railroad officials and con- tractors. rather than that of tenn perance workers. who had only 2 general interest in the legislation.
 But Aut 80 provides that no H. cense for the sales of malt, spirituous or vinous liquors shall be issued to any one within six miles of any grad ing camp for the construction or re- pair of a 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 twenty-five men employed OF the Cetner street bridge. which is a public work. and that such work is within less than six miles of the saloon that Ford is proposing 10 start
 There are two main sections of the act. first prohibiting the issuance of the license. and the second prohibit ing the sale Of liquor within the above described radius. but it is stat cd that the provisions of this sec tion (not of the whole act) shall not apply to the sale of liquor under li- i censes issued six months prior to the establishment 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 estab- lished saloon could be relssued while the Center street bridge work Is in progress or while and public work, such as the construction of the fed eral building is going on.
 Nor would any of the licenses is sued last spring after the hearings by the board of charges by the league against a half dozen or more of the saloons be valid, inasmuch as they were issued within less than six months prior to the beginning of work on the Center street bridge.
 The act was passed with practical ly no opposition and with little de- bate. The established saloon keepers saw no danger in it, and the men who were urging it were not un- friendly 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 number of the en- ployed incapacitated half the time.
 It is certain that this matter will ultimately come before the courts, where on one side will be raised tho plain language of the law and on the other the intent of the legislature.