Evening star., 1915-02-24
SHAFTS ARE AIMED
At EXCISE BOARD
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mitted that he had seen the protests
Mr.. Shoemaker said that Rafferty, had
applied also for a license to 420 H
street northeast. after the excise board
had granted him a license for 406, and
when he had had some trouble with
the owner of the property at 406. The
license at 420 was not granted. but
that at 406 was permitted to stand,
and Rafferty, eventually got the prop
erty. The license was renewed last
fall. and Sheehy appeared as attorney
for Rafferty, at the time as he had
done in an earlier hearing.
Gives Details of Charges.
Mr.. Shoemaker went into detail in the
matter of charges that the excise board
has permitted violations of the law
which prohibits the granting of IL
censes for saloons within 400 feet of
schoolhouses. churches. etc. All these
charges were published at the time that
Senator Jones of Washington attacked
the excise board on the floor of the
Senate, several weeks ago, and brought
about the present investigation of the
excise board.
During the testimony of Mr.. Wilson
before the committee he told the COM
mittee that John j. Madden in CONVEX
sation with Thad B. Sergeant, an at
torney: who had represented Madden in
a liquor license transferred, after Mad
den had obtained the services of Mr..
Sheehy as attorney and obtained the
transfer had inferred that the excise
board had to be bought.
why didn't you let me represent
you this last time when you got your
transfer from the board?' Mr.. Sergeant
said to Mr. Madden" Mr.. Shoemaker
piled, You don't know how: it takes
money to do this thing
You don't mean to say you had to
buy the excise board Mr.. Sergeant
said.
what else could I mean was the
reply Of Mr.. Madden"
Charges Against Board.
Andrew Wilson. president of the
Anti-Saloon League. appeared before
the committee late yesterday afternoon
and submitted list OF charges against
the excise board, which may be sum-
med up as follows:
NThe excise board. in drawing up its
rules and regulations for procedure
did, in some degree. violate the excise
law.
The excise board, broadly speaking,
did exercise its discretion as far as
terestS
"A fragrant instance of the excise
boards violation of the law was the
transfer of liquor license to Louise
Gordon, at 4o7 Q street northwest,
after the death of her husband. John
Gordon, when the license had ceased
to exist under the law and could not
legally be transferred.
The excise board permits a beer
depot to be conducted on the edge Of
Part of the beer depot really is Win
the restricted section, although the
entrance of the beer distributing der,ot
is without the mile limit The DEPOT
Is used for wholesale distribution of
beer by an out-of-town brewery
The excise board granted large
number of licenses to saloons within
400 feet of schools and churches in vio-
lation of the excise law. An instance
was the granting of a license to
Witbin SGfbines ass pa. tna.roem in 14th street.
nue. Presbyterian Church. Another in
stance was the granting of a license to
a saloon less than 400 feet from the
entrance to Eastern High School
In Residential Districts.
The excise board granted licenses to
wholesale liquor stores in residence
sections. An instance was the grant
ing of license to a wholesale place on
4th street northwest near the intersec-
tion OF New Jersey avenue.
The excise board violated the law BY
granting license for Costello's saloon,
at 9Th and G streets, right across the
street from a Jewish synagogue; to
one or two saloons less than 400 feet
from Central Union Mission and to a
saloon at 1st and F streets southwest.
about 100 feet from a place of public
Mr.. Wilson charged that the excise
law has been violated in the barroom
of the st. James Hotel. where improper
pictures are said to be hung.
Mr.. Wilson said: I'm my opinion Mil
ler Brothers are operating bar at
14th street and Pennsylvania avenue
northwest in violation Of the law. They
their entrance around the cor
ner, SO that patrons enter by 14th
street, and were granted a license"