Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-23
ISSUE OVER THE
QUART STATUTE
Virginia Prohibitionists Are
Confident the Laws
Is Strong
DISCLAIM ANY ALARM
Prominent Supporters of Dry Move
ment Allege They See No Force
in Rogers Deductions.

| Richmond virginia, WAY
DR.. j.. Sidney Peters, prohibition
| commissioner, declared yesterday in
Richmond that he would, on June /,
announce the members of his cierl-
cal and office staff. He says they will
not get to work before the fall, but
he will make the appointments in
order that the demand for positions
shall cease and he can then proceed
with the mapping out of his plans
Dr.. Peters will have not less than
three secret service men on his staff
but the names of these will not be
made public. The Office force will
not consist of more than three or
four persons, it is believed. One OF
these will be the cashier, who will
have to sell the stamps which Will
have to be placed on every package
when it is shipped. Any package
shipped into Virginia-that is, liquor
will be subject to seizure and con-
fscation unless properly stamped.
The stamps will be affixed on the
package by the railroads, steam
boats and other carrierers engaged
the delivery of liquors. The price OF
the stamp, 5 cents, will be added to
the cost of shipment, and the con-
sumer will have to pay for that.
Richmond, May % Professor
Lindsay. Rogers, adjunct professor
of political economy in the UniNer-
sity of Virginia, may have discover
ed few flaws in the prohibition
law which becomes effective Novenl-
her 1st, next, as set forth in an ar
ticle by him in the Virginia Law ke-
gister.
IF there be basis for Professor
Rogers contention regarding the
nossession of more than a quart OF
;liquou-with liability for prosecu-
ton. it has signally failed to excite
the friends of the prohibition meas
ure in Virginia. In fact, they assert
that they do not see that there is
anything new in the matter.
When the prohibition bill was pre-
pared it was gone over word by
word hv lawyers-even the attorney
for the American National Anti
Saloon League is said to have been
party to the conference. There
were a dozen or more lawyers on
hand. and the Delaware decision re-
lied on by Professor Roger was dis'
cussed at the time.
Professor Rogers raises the point
that while the State does not permit
of deliveries of more than quart
a month the law says that the ow-
ner can be proceeded against when
he has as much as a gallon. tie
takes the position that if the law
allows man to have as much as
a gallon before he can be proceeded
against that the provisions OF the IN
terstate commerce law will permit
his receiving one gallon at ship
ment. He believes that mandamus
would lie to compel the common car
r;ors m n,nLe such deliveries.
The April number of the Virginia
Law Register carried the article pre-
pared by Professor Rogers, and 1t
has been quietly discussed for some:
time past, but the waters have not
so far been troubled and no occa'
I sion for excitement has been discov'
cred by the prohibitionists.
LAWYERS who are certain to be IN,
terested in the laws enforcement de-
clared yesterday that they had reat
of the article, some Of them had reae
It and none of them were disposed
to regard the situation as in any way
! tending to permit any violations a
any time. When such a case as tina
}, outlined by Professor Rogers ma!
t arise it will be met and met in TIT
!. courts.
"That prohibition law is properl!
: safeguarded," said lawyer who i
!, interested in the enforcement Of tn
r statutes of the State; "There ma,
be a few small Ioopholes in tn
measure, but the one that Professo
cl Rogers points out it not big enough