The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-16
LIQUOR QUESTION
 ABSORBING TOPIC
 OF LEGISLATORS Jefferson Delegation Has Not Yet Reached Agreement on
 Bill to Be Presented
NUMEROUS MEASURES
 ALREADY BEING DRAWN
Members o. lI Delegation, How ever, Realize Importance of Get ting Together and Will Meet
 Again Next Week

As the meeting of the legis1a lure ap- breaches the rumors of war are grow ing louder and more alarming. All over Alabama the buzzing of many voices may be heard discussing the one big issue of the day. the liquor ques- ton.
 With both sides claiming the sen ate and everyone positive that the ma jority will not be more than two or three either way, when 1t comes t4 a repeal of the prohibition laws, with prohibition forces in conferences ev- anywhere, adopting resolutions and preparing to rain teegrams, anti-pro- hibitionists are drawing bills, bills. bills.
 Every member of the legislature has his own ideas about the solution of the problem and is preparing to express them in a bill. When all are gathered on the battle ground 1t will be a melee such as has seldom been witnessed at the capital. The excitement of the adoption of the Carmichael and Full Ter bills will pale into insignificance.
 No Agreement Among Delegation
 The Jefferson county delegation has not yet reached an agreement as to any unity of action on the liquor question, and their ideas are of wide divergence Two believe in high license with lim- tied number of saloons. Several want dlspensaries with beer sold in regu- lated saloons under an excise commit tee, the beer to be bought by the deal CTS through the dispensary.
 Others wish to substitute the whole sale house for the dispensary to handle the whisky proposition, accepting the beer saloon under an excise commit tee.
 However, all realize the importance of getting together. and they will meet again next week to confer, hoping that some one bill may be settled upon. Among those who have already sig nifed their intention to draw up liquor bills are T. H. Motion, Thomas J. Judge and Walker Percy.
 MT. Motion and MT. Percy favor high license; MT Judge wants beer saloons and wholesale houses for package whisky.
 State Senator Hugh Morrow in dis cussing the matter yesterday said: While I am not welded to any par ticular plan, so far as l can see the best remedy for the situation will be the dispensary, which will sell whis- kies in packages and supply beer sa- looms with beer, these saloons to be nm tho nf mittee. l would want a reasonably high license on the beer saloon, and they should be limited to a certain number" However, MT. Morrow realizes that big fight is on, and he expects, if possible, to get some law through that will relieve Birmingham of blind tigers and filth.
 Motion Advertises Bill
 T. H. Motion yesterday advertised, giving notice of his intention to present bill to the legislature Here is the notice:
 Notice is hereby given of the intention to apply to the legislature of Alabama at it's next session which convenes in the city of Montgomery during January, 191l to enact a law to regulate the liquor traf- fic. making it lawful to manufacture, to sell or otherwise dispose of spirituous, vinous and malt liquors. any one, or two, or all, in Jefferson county, Alabama, and to prescribe regulations for the conduct of any business where spirituous, vinous or malt liquors are dealt in either by wholesale or retail; to fix the days and hours when such sales can or cannot be made; to limit or fix the cities, towns, district or districts in which such manu- factures or sales may be made and to prescribe different regulations for differ ent cities, towns and districts, or the same regulations for different cities, towns and districts; and to prescribe in what portions of such city or town such liquors may not be manufactured or sold, and to provide that no one shall engage in the manufacture, sale or other disposi- tion of any such liquors unless he has from the proper authority as provided in such law; to fix the character of each kind of license, and to fix the amount of the charge for such license, and prescribe the steps necessary to be taken in order to procure such license and to direct how the moneys received from such licenses shall be divided and distributed among the city, county and state and for what purposes the same may be used; to pro- vide for the forfeiture,' suspension or re- vocation of any license issued In the event of violations of law by any licensee or his employee; to make void any sales on credit by any licensee; to provide against the sale to habitual drunKards, minors and persons of unsound mind of any spirituous. vinous or malt linuors; to provide for the abatement a adisance of any place where such liquors are un- la wfully manufactured or disposed of to provide penalties, fines and other pun ishments for its violations; and to repeal all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of said proposed act. The foregoing is the substance of the law which 1t is intended to apply to the legislature to enact. T. H. MOTION"