Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-07

wet and "Dry" Status.
How wet and dry" Missouri was
on July 1. 1914. can be cleaned from a
bulletin dealing with this question
given publicity by the bureau OF labor
statistics through Commissioner ]. 7.
Fitzpatrick, which states that out Of
1913 special tax payers here to I'm
Gle Sam S,S43 are retail liquor deal
ers. In this respect Missouri ranks
seventh. having more such dealers
than Illinois, which Includes Chicago.
but less than California. New Jersey.
New York, Ohio. Pennsylvania and
Wisconsin.
The ewettestp portion Of Missouri Is
the eastern half. which is known as
the First internal revenue district,
containing such cases as st. Louis,
Hannibal, Cape Girardeau Hermann.
Washington, Charlottesville, New Mad
rid, st. Charles and two or three other
cities, there being 5,646 saloons, retail
liquor dealers and cid clubs in this
half. The western district, which is
the Sixth district, has 3,197 saloons,
dramshops and buffets, to be found in
Kansas City, st. Joseph, Joplin, Sc
dalia, Springfield, Jefferson City and
three or four other cities. Included in
these figures are all other organiza-
tons such as the Moose, Elks, Eagles,
Owls, the fashionable clubs of the
larger cities, also "lid" Lifting social
organizations which have bars and
dispense liquors. Just how many of
these organizations were put out of
business by the supreme court deci-
sion of a month ago requiring all
clubs with buffets to take out a state
dramshop license will not be known
until next July.
According to the information, there
are 46 breweries running in full blast,
which in the fiscal year of 1884
turned out 4,152,160 barrels of beer,
worth approximately $40, 100000. While
long on breweries, Missouri is short
on distilleries, there being only 81
registered plants and 90 in actual ope-
ration last July, "a Of these distilling
from grain and seven from fruit.
On July !, 1918, there were "a reg
istefed distillers In t~hefstate, indicatl
ing a decrease Of three inathe course
Of d year. There was also a falling
off in4the numbeto of retail liquor deal
ers. there BEING, 1851 in Missouri in
the summer Of 1913, which was 118.
more Than in the SUMMER Of 1914!
These liquor. figures do not include
any "moonshine, soft and easy"
Blind tigers or "bootlegging re-
sorts where beer and whisky are sold
by the gallon quart pint or drink.
Many Dead Laws.
J Senator John #. Morton of Rich
mond, a member of the special COM
mission selected by Gov. Major some
months ago to weed out" obsolete,
conflictingsA Unconstitutional and 9th
erwise defunct laws from the Missouri
statutes, is here awaiting the coming
of Robert Lamar of Houston and
James A. Afford of New London, to
hold a meeting to prepare a report on
the work 4
Senator Morton, to whom was as
signed volume No. 3 of the statutes,
finds that in this volume there are Il
general laws that have been declared
unconstitutional in years gone by and
should be eliminated.
There are also a number of conflict
ing sections and i~ncongruities, all OF
which will be cured by special bills
prepared under the report of the COM
mission.
A hundred or more bills may be
necessary to carry out the pruning"
program that will be suggested by the
commission,
inheritance Taxes.
State Auditor Gordon during the
last four years has collected $780,
029.78 more collateral inheritance tax
than w w. Wilder, his predecessor,
did during his four years in the Of
flee.
The collateral inheritance tax col
lections made by Gordon for four
years, ending Dec. 81, 1914, are:
1911 480,783.O6
1912 ..........r......... 479,517s35
1913 .s..........e.... 412,815.49
1914 Observation-Disclosures. 411,16O.49
Total H H, M q 7oA orc Oh
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Roachis Report.
The receipts of the office of the sac.