The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-03-04
PROHIBITION FOR
IDAHO IN 1916
Stringent Terms of Senate Bill No. so Will
Apply to Entire State
PENALTY SEVERE TO OFFENDERS

When Idaho becomes prohibition
district January l, 1916, as provided by
the terms of house bill No. 142, which
passed the senate this week and was
transmitted to the governor for his
signature and the terms of senate bill
No. SO, which also passed the legisla-
ture, make enforcement of statewide
prohibition possible, this state will
probably be under the stictest dry laws
ever enacted by state in the Union.
If the constitutional prohibition amend
ment question is acted on favorably in
the fall of 1916, amending the constitu-
ton of the state to make Idaho perman.
emily prohibition territory, the last word
in dry legislation will have been said in
this state and the saloon banished for.
ever.
Legislative Enactment.
The statewide prohibition enactment
house bill No. 142, as it is familiarly
known, merely declares that on and
after January l, 1916, Idaho will be a
prohibition district. 1t is the terms of
senate bill No. 80 that then apply and
which have the "teeth'' House bill
No. 142 is as short measure as has
been introduced this session. In full
it is as follows:
"Be it enacted by the legislature Of
the state of Idaho:
"Section l. The manufacture, dis.
rosal and transportation of intoxicat-
ing liquors for beverage purposes are
prohibited in the state Of Idaho.
"Section 2. The state of Idaho is
hereby constituted a prohibition dis
trict, and all statutory provisions now
or which may hereafter be in force in
prohibition districts, SO far as the
same are not inconsistent herewith, are
made applicable and operative for the
enforcement thereof.
"Section 3. This act shall be in
force and take effect on and after JAN
uary l, 1867
Senate Bill No. so Governs.
Senate bill No. SO, which governs
and lays down the terms under which
prohibition district may operate in
this state is so strict as to make it
unlawful for any person, firm, COM
pany, corporation or agent to have in
his or its possession any intoxicating
liquors of any kind for any use except
for sacramento, medicinal or scien-
tific or mechanical purposes.
GA prohibition district within the
meaning of this act," says section l Of
this measure to be spread on the stat.
ute books, "and all other acts regulat.
ing or prohibiting the traffic in in.
toxicating liquors shall be any county
or corporated city or village wherein
the manufacture, sale, possession,
keeping for sale, transportation for
sale or gift of intoxicating liquors for
beverage purposes is declared unlaw-
full, whether such prohibition district
be established by constitutional amend.
ment, legislative enactment, adoption
of tho provisions of the local option
law or by refusal of municipal author
tiles or county commissioners to grant
saloon icenses.'
Cannot Have in Possession.
The act then goes on to state it will
be unlawful for any "person, firm, COM
pany or corporation, it's officers or
agents, to sell, manufacture or dispose
of any Intoxicating liquors of any
kind within a prohibition DISTRICT or
to have i'll his or it's possession or to
transport any Intoxicating liquors
within prohibition district "unless the
same was procured and is so possessed
and transported" under a permit.
Pharmacists Must Be Careful.
Before a pharmacist is authorized to
transport pure alcohol for scientific
or mechanical purposes or for COM
pounding or preparing medicines, he
must first secure permit for the pur-
pose from the probate court. To Sc
cure this permit he must file with
that court statement in writing,
given under oath that he desires the
alcohol for scientific or mechanical
purposes, or compromising or preserv-