The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-23
Dispensary and Beer Cafe Measure Will Contain
 Its Own Regulations
SENATOR IS NOW AT
 WORK ON THE BILL
Will Allow for Thirteen Dispensaries and 132 Beer Cafes Regulated By Commissioners-City
 Gets 75 Per Cent .
By HUGH W. ROBERTS

Montgomery, February 2.-(special.)- The Morrow dispensary and beer cafe bill, to be effective in cities of the 100000 class, is not dependent on the passage or non- passage of a bill regulating the liquor traffic in Alabama.
 If the Morrow bill passes, Birmingham will have system of dispensaries to be operated in connection with beer and light wine cafes-even If no regulation bill to complement the Parks local option bill is passed by the legislature.
 Words to this effect were uttered this afternoon by Senator Morrow.
 The people of Birmingham, therefore, have no reason for personal interest in the effort of the local optionists to pass bill of regulations, the purpose of which is the making of the Parks bill effective
 My bill will be local option bill con taining regulations of It's own," said MT Morrow ''The regulations will apply to both the dispensaries and the beer cafes If it passes the legislature, it will go into effect without an election I believe the majority of the people of Birmingham will be pleased with the provisions of the bill. l believe the great majority will take delight In the fact that no election will be necessary And I believe the majority will be glad that the evils of the present system in Birmingham will be corrected"
 The Bills Provisions
 The Birmingham bill is at the present time in course of preparation. The completion of the measure will require some little time. Senator Morrow es- inmates that it will cover 20 type- written pages.
 It will provide for a system of dis pensaries and a system of beer and light wine cafes.
 Each system shall be operated under the direction and supervision of the commission which shall govern Bir- mingham.
 There shall be one dispensary for every 10000 inhabitants, the number to be, therefore, 13.
 There may be as many as 132 light wine and beer cafes, the provision be- ing that there may be one for every 1000 people. The number may be lim- ited at the will of the commissioners The commissioners shall have the mat ter of location and the issuance of li- censes entirely in its charge.
 Senator Morrow's idea of temperance is to crcumseribe the drinking of spirits and to encourage the drinking of beer.
 He does not favor the infliction of a prohibitory license on the beer cafes. He has not reached a conclusion as to what would be the proper amount, but 1t is believed that at the present time he favors setting the license at $500. fet"You may say for me- stated MT. MOT row, ..that I have never authorized the statement that my bill shall provide for the division of the profits of the dispen- saries in the proportion of 40. 40 and 20 per centum. There is no reason, there fore for the protest which I hear will be made ill this regard. I have not de- termined on the division of the proceeds. but believe that Birmingham should re- ceive 75 per cent of the total"
 Birmingham People Pleased
 Birmingham people who are in Mont gomery at present express their satisfac- tion that Birmingham, in all probability, will have dispensaries and beer cafes
 The argument is made that Birmingham needs the revenue which the dispensaries will create, which revenue, at the present time goes into the rapacious pouch of the ''blind tiger.'
 The dispensary is generally considered the mean between prohibition and open saloons, the extremes, in the regard of Senator Moody and others.
 And the beer provisions of the Morrow bill have pleased especially. Representa- tive citizens of Birmingham here today agree with Senator Morrow that the en- couragement of beer drinking is course which will lead to temperance in all drink ,