Arizona republican., 1916-03-01
ROADS WILL NUT
 HANDLE LIQUOR
Representatives of Railroads In State Agree Not to Ac- cept for Shipment Any Booze Billed for Points In Arizona.

According to an agreement entered into yesterday morning by representa- tives of the Southern Pacific, the Fl Paso x Southwestern and the Santa Fe railroads, none of these lines of 1 transportation will accept for transpor- tation any shipments of liquor billed to points in the state of Arizona.
 This decision on the part of the rep |resentativeS of the carriers came Tn response to numerous inquiries which had been made as to the attitude or the roads regarding the shipping of liquor following the supreme courts recent decision that booze might be brought into the statc for personal use. Many persons were of the opinion that the courts decision would protect the roads if they would carry the wet goods into the state. However, Attorn- ley General Wiley Jones informed the roads that while he was not exactly certain as to the right of the roads
 to carry intOXicantS into the state, he
 would suggest that they refrain from doing so until there had been an op- portunity to make test of the case via :; the mandamus route.
 l Consequently, as a result of yester-
 days action by the men representing l the roads, it will be necessary for the |, thirsty AriZonian to bring mandamuS proceedings against the roads in an ef- fort to compel the carriers to haul the commodity of the variety known as wet. The railroads do not want the
 business derived from the transporta- tion of products of the breweries and the distilleries, that is certain. And unless they are compelled to carry it they will not do so. Therefore, if a man from this state be in California, or any other adjacent wet state and should happen to desire the shipment of a lquantity of liquor into Arizona, and assuming that the wet goods were in
 tended primarily for nIs own use, he would have to start action in a federal
 court and institute mandamus proceed ings against the road which had re-
 fused to carry the booze for him, and if the court should decide that the road
 should carry the liquor, he might then
 succeed in getting a shipment of the joyous juice into the state. otherwise
 his chances of introducing booze in this
 state would be small, unless he brought it in via the suit case route.
 The road officials yesterday assem-
 bled decided that their respective lines
 could not risk a legal entanglement
 with the state authorities for the bus mess which might be theirs if they choose to resume the hauling of the I bottled goods. One of the officials stated that in his opinion, it would be :. up to the road and the express com
 pany handling the booze to prove chat the shipment was intended strictly for
 the personal use of the man to whom the consignment was delivered. and tha, in many cases it might be a pretty nara . thing to do.
 T Among the prominent railroad men l lassembled in this city for the purpose of attending the meeting of yesterday
 and also to attend the hearing of the
 three cent fare case this morning. are :, the following:
 Garnett King, general passenger . agent Fl Paso X Southwestern. E
 Paso; F. P. Guice, assistant genera
 freight and passenger agent Santa Fe prescott X Phoenix, Prescott; H. C
 Hallmark. general passenger agen Arizona Eastern. Tucson; Gibson Fay l. Tor, secretary and attorney Arizona
 Eastern, Tucson; T. A. Williams. su u tpertendent Tucson division Souther, Il Pacific, Tucson; James Peabody. chic statistician Santa Fe, Chicago; Rob ert Dunlap, western solicitor Santa Fe c lChicago; w. G. Glasgow, general freigb
 agent, Santa Fe. Los Angeles; E. w . Camp, attorney Santa Fe, Los Angeles . A. NJ. Rhinehardt, assistant genera J freight agent Santa Fe, Los Angeles
 F. F.. Batturs, general passenger agen g Southern Pacific, San Francisco: Eu
 gene Fox, traffic manager Fl Paso ( v Southwestern. Chicago; C. W. Dur 's brow, interstate commerce commissio attorney Southern Pacific. San Fran 1T cisco; John Franklin, Fl Paso & South K western attorney. Fl Paso; A l.. Flaw n ley, auditor Fl Paso X Southwestern ld Fl Paso.