Bisbee daily review., 1915-10-03
DAY INTERPRETATION
OF WEBB -KENYON'LAW
HOLDS HERE SAY MANY
California Courts Decision Con-
strued to Hold that Booze
May Be Imported to Arizona
for Personal Consumption.

Tor PERSONAL GOnSuIilpUOIl.
LOS ANGELES, oct. Says the
Los Angeles Times:
The failure of prohibition to pro
hibit is evidenced by the fact that
every incorporated city in California
having ordinances making possession
of booze a misdemeanor has been i'm
posing fines and sending citizens to
Jail without legal right TO do so.
Pomona, the worst offender of all
the cities Of the state, has an ordi-
nance on its books which gave Off
GERS license to meet incoming trains,
seize luggage, break it open and con-
fiscate liquor found therein, while the
person caught with the wet goods
was carried off TO jail.
other cities, following the suit Of
Pomona's twoyear-old ordinance, have
fallen into the same mistake and fines
and imprisonments have been lavished
upon thirsty citizens.
The Appellate court has just re-
versed a case of this kind and has
held i'm unequivocal terms that such
ordinances are invalid and unconsti-
tutional, and an overstepping of police
powers.
In other words, suburbanites may
hereafter carry home as much liquor
as they please without fear of arrest,
but Of course, they viii not be al.
lowed to sell it,
! Further evidence that prohibition
does not prohibit is cited by Col
Henry Laub head of the allied liquor
interests in California. who points to
a decision of the United States Su-
preme court in support of the conten-
ton.
Can Ship to Arizona.
! This decision interpreting the
Webb Kenyon act, declares-that liquor
may he consigned and delivered to in
dividual persons i'm dry" states, pro
viding the liquor is not resold after
reaching its destination. If it is not
used for commercial purposes, it may
be delivered, and the owner of the Ii
cuor cannot be prosecuted.
Railroad and express companies
have refused TO accept shipments of
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coIding TO Col Laub these companies
do not understand the full import of
the decision of Justice Day, concurred
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