The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-25
Temperance Committee Sends
Liquor Measure to Hopper.
1t viii Be Pushed Ahead of All
Individual Booze Bills.
CHURCHES MAY GET Wine
individuals, However, To Be
Cut OFF From All Sources.
Those Who Lay in Supply in
Advance VIII Get in Trouble.

The house temperance committee
today presented a bill that will make
Kansas a bone dry state, with liquors
only for church communion and
medicinal purposes. Under the house
committee bill, a kansan with a thirst
and a bottle of liquor is liable to a
fine of from 500 to $500 and a jail
sentence of from thirty days to six
months. Shipments of liquor into the
state are also prohibited under the
bill.
things the house committee measure
will do to the thirsty in Kansas. 1t
means that the bringing of liquor lnto
this state by other than authorized
persons shall be a clear and clean cut
offense and that possession is prima
facie evidence of law violation. Not
only is the possession of liquor defined
as a violation of law, but any person
who shall permit ~te keeping of liquor
on premises owned or controlled by
them shall be equally guilty
Exclude Individual Bills.
When the committee bill went to
the house hopper it was drafted to
cover the ground desired by various
individual measures. An effort VIII
be made by the committee to advance
it's bill and exclude all individual
measures. There is little question but
Kansas in the bone dry class, with
the exception for church and medi-
cinal purposes. The bill permits pas
tors and priests of churches in this
state to ship in wine for church pur-
poses, such shipments to be recorded
with the county clerk with certifica-
tionS as to the purpose for which the
LIQUOR is to be used. A record of the
amount of such shipment must also
be provided. -s- q s..-..
Registered Wholesale drug houses
with capitalize atoms in excess of $685.
900 may purchase alcohol to be sold
in one to five gallon lots for medi-
cinal purposes only. A clear record
of these shipments and transactions
is also provided, with a penalty for
violations. But that is as far as the
committee goes in letting down the
bars to Demon Booze in Kansas.
Provides Heavy Fines.
Any person who shall bring into this
state cause to be brought in or shall
possess any Intoxicating liquor in any
quantity whatsoever shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor under the bill.
A fine of $500 to $500 with thirty
days to six months Jail sentence is pro-
vided for each violation. A similar
punishment is provided for any person
owning or controlling any property in
or on which liquor is kept for any pur-
pose other than permitted under the
bill.
Railroad companies bringing liquor
into this state except to registered
wholesale druggists or to churches
shall pay a fine of 500 to $500 and
persons delivering the liquor are sub
! ject to Jail sentence of thirty days to
six months. There are no ifs nor ands
in the restrictions. They are clear cut
and positive. 1t simply means that if
the bill passes, Kansas wears a white
ribbon whether the individual with q
thirst desires it or not.
And that isn't all. The individuals
who have been buying heavily from
Missouri and Kentucky wholesale
houses in anticipation of the passage
of stringent anti-liquor laws. will be
caught in possession of a supply of
wet goods as dangerous under the law
as possession of a kit of burglar tools.