The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-22


  ;, by any one person of more than one quart of spirituous liquors and five gallons of malt beverage every 15 days. Tennessee, where the prohibition laws have not been strictly enforced in the l larger cities it is said passed an custer law. modelled after a Kansas statute. which provides for the removal from office l of state, county or city officials tother | than holders of constitutional officesl who fail to enforce the laws of the state. The legislature also enacted measures forbid ding social and fraternal clubs to dispense liquor or maintain lockers for members, placing the supervision of soft drink 1 stands under the pure food and drug de- l partment and forbidding them to sell bev- l erages containing more than one-half per cent alcohol and prohibiting drug stores from selling intoxicants except on bona fide prescriptions given to persons who actually are i'll.
 Amend Yost Laws West Virginia enacted amendments 10 | the Yost prohibition law limiting ship ments of liquor into the state and for i bidding a person to have liquor in a pub lie place even for his own use. Nor here 1 after can any one in West Virginia give la drink to another except In his own home, homo being specified a perm anent place of residence, not hotel or other public place.
 All attempts to revise the prohibition laws of Oklahoma were defeated. | In Oregon, where prohibition becomes effective in January next, as the result of previous action by the voters on con stitutional amendment, the legislature en- acted law to enforce the amendment. The law prohibits the manufacture of in- toxicating liquor in the state and it's sale except on physicians prescription or for scientific, sacramental or mechanical uses. It allows a limited amount to be imported by the heads of families
 A law for a similar purpose was enacted in Colorado. where a prohibition amend ment goes into effect the same date. The Colorado law forbids the buying, selling and giving away of liquor except for medical or sacramental purposes and pro hibits common carriers from transporting Iliquor into the state except for lawful pur- poses-this includes the transportation to individuals, who must sign a receipt that the liquor is for their own use. The law contains search and seizure provision and gives the governor s10,000 yearly for it's enforcement.
 The legislature of Washington. where prohibition is also effective in January next ignored Governor Listers request for an appropriation of 5000 to enforce the law.
 l The liquor traffic in Arkansas. hav- ing been banned by the previous legisla- ture with law which likewise takes ef feet in January, was not up for considera- tion this year.
 Virginia, which goes into the dry column in November 1916 held no leets- lative session this year
 Statewide prohibition proposals met de- feat in Connecticut. Indiana, Michigan. New Mexico. New York and Wyoming. The question was before the general as- sembly of Connecticut as a proposed con- stitutional amendment which the legisla- tors declined to send to the next assembly for ratification. The legislature. how ever increased the cost of retail liquor licenses 66 2-3 per cent. and for the first time placed social and fraternal organiza- tions serving liquors to members under excise regulation. In Indiana a state wide measure died in committee of the lower house.
 In Michigan the question promised to be one of the features of the session. but nothing came of it. A bill was in- troduced in the senate providing for the submission of statutory prohibition to the vote of the people at a general election next year, but the prohibition leaders themselves voted against ir after the I liquor faction had attached certain amendments to 1t which, in the opinion of the "drys.'' defeated the purpose of the bill
 Il While a strong effort was made in the New Mexico legislature to secure action on constitutional amendment resolution, the issue was not allowed to come to a vote in either house. In New York all measures designed to have e statewide effect on the liquor trafhc were killed and in Wyoming the issue was twice be- fore the legislature in proposals for a con- II stitutional amendment and twice de- feated.
 Vets Win In Illinois Ii Both wet and dry measures failed of enactment in Illinois. They were, all killed by the house. The temperance measures introduced provided for resi- dence district option for stric;er enforce ment of the anti-iquor laws in proh- bition territory and against treating. The
 wets' did not push their DIiI providing for home rule in the handling of the
 liquor problem and their bill repeating the township option law.
 E In New Jersey and Pennsylvania county local option met defeat. but was estab- lished by Minnesota. The latter state also F enacted 'roadhouse bill. prohibiting the issuance of saloon licenses to estab- ments outside of cities and villages. The only action taken by the Ohio leg islature was the passage of a law malS- ing state and county liquor ncensing of- fcials elective instead of appointive. thus "decentralizing' the licensing system. The law was opposed by the so-called f'1ib- 1 eral' interests. The Massachusetts law makers passed bill to prevent the ship ment of liquor from license to no license communities. but it was vetoed by the governor A bill forbidding the use of enclosed booths In restaurants where liquor is sold became a law. l. California, local option state, passed measure forbidding the sale of liquor to persons with Indian blood in their veins or white persons associating with them. The legislature defeated, however. a bill creating mile dry" zone around normal schools and universities II Governor Ferguson of Texas. having been elected on a platform opposing all liquor agitataion, the question was left practically untouched in that state. He Z! vetoed the only liquor bill passed. The Imeasure would have reduced the tax on