Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-04-25
WILL THE wERB LAW WORK

1 activities. ana by those connected
+ with the liquor trade. How will j
+. work? The position taken by on
J Opponeua Of the law, the Dayton
Journal. that in reality it amounts
} 10 nothing. and was never intend
(, Oh to amount to anything" Il
hardly strengthened by the exper-
fence Of the Louisville correspond
feni Of MiGa Criterion, a Chicago
iiquor-lrace Journal He thinks il
fairly safe 10 say that no statute
was ever passed that mas caused
SUCH widespread comment. specu-
laliGn and inquiry as the one in
question Travellers for Louisville
I firms tel him that as soon as
/ they present their cards 20 the
outside houses with view to
reaching he head ana doing BUSH
Hess. they are bOmbarded with ques
lions a. a. what is really TO hap
pen under The law Something has
already happened. IL might be not
ed We find both lIquOr-trade pa
pers and anti-salOOn league or
gans summarizing news dispatches
telling Of the Southern Express
company instruction 10 local
agents not to receive shipments
for any prohibition territory ~ Vi
OiatiOn Of the Webb act. They
also quote a recent issue Of the
Kansas City star as follows.
Three Kansas City railroads is
sued orders TO their freight de-
partments not to accept shipments
OF liquor into prohibition States. I
except al The shippers risk. Two
railroads put the ban on the liquor /
shipments into Oklahoma entirely.
"Ihe legal departments of the |
other four railroads that go west
and south from Kansas City have
notified the freight departments
they are studying the new law and
that instructions as to what TO do
will be issued as quickly as pos
sible.
The Missouri. Kansas and Texas
and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railroads refuse TO accept any
at all for Oklahoma. For
into Kansas they require
he liquor dealer to certify that
he order is bona fide and that
he name of the consignee is on
lie in the liquor dealers office.
1he name must be on the bill of
acing. They also require the ship {
Ter to take all the risk and give |
~ the right to claim damages if !
he liquor is seized or cOnflscated. !
Actual seizures have been made ;
y Oklahoma officials under the /
Webb law, and South Carolina d
hipments have been held up. Con- I
ressman Webb. the author of the I
lw, thinks that some of these acts /
vii soon furnish an opportunity 1
or a Judicial opinion upon its con-
According to a
Washington dispatch printed in the Il
ew Republic Westerville. Ohio o
lr. Webb after a talk with At y
McReynolds. 'un- v
ersiands that the attorney general |
I'LL intervene in the first case D
nat Is brought challenging the OPP Z
ration Of this law ia any State 81
, that when the matter is carried p
'rward to the supreme court. in p
test case the Government will 81
e fully represented. The uncOn- @;
of the law is urged
II only by the liquor interests II
nj by those opposed to the p'
eaSufe on principle. but by such 81
gal authorities as Senator Root, p'
ri former Attorney General ei
'ickerSham and even by at least &c
Ie congressman who voted fer m
G bill out of Difference to the IN
shes of his constituents, presi- ca
mt Tafl's opposition on the same IN
ound preceded the action of IN
ngress IN passing the Webb bill
er his veto He explained that ma
considered lit to be a violation III
the interstate commerce clause GO
the Constitution. in that it is in IN
bstance and effect a delegation an
Congress TO the States OF the ca
wer of regulating interstate COM ne
rec ln liquors which is vested sol
,lusiVely in Congress" ter
mother objection frequently met DIT
based upon the fact that the SSeN
prohibits the shipment of Ii ire
or from one state into another SW
case Ito quote the law The SUI
luor IS intended by any person ma
crested therein 90 he received. ah'
seSSeo sold. or IN any manner ~ ~
'd either in The original pack n
or otherwise In violation of lui
Z law of such State" This is ops
one congressman argued on the rHl
~ of the House. the inhibition
based upon an intent existing rOi
undisciosed i'm the minds of gre
conSginee' 10 use the liduor me
awfully The National Bulletin Wh
lcinnatil of the National Whole was
Liquor Dealers Association DIT,
America gives out this infOrma- ,
for those readers who are Iie
ious TO know what new Situa- tion
has been created in the whole eial
liquor business by the pas Dia'
! Of the law gro'
lhe law simply prohibits the lori
'ment ia Interstate commerce I'M
liquors where such h9t
ors are intended 10 be used by pia,e
one in violation of any law of VIII
State or territory into which ter
! liquors are shipped.
hat is all there is 10 il. All POR
T shipments are lawful. ....
he law provides no penalty.
annot be enforced in a Fed
court nor by any Federal Of DC
). Of |
simply delegates The reouIaf- over