The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-21
Under Interpretation of At
torney-General, Saloons
May Re-Occupy Stands.
TEMPORARY CAMPS
ARE NOT INCLUDED
District Attorney John L.
Neeley Gets Special Rul-
ing on Local Gases.

Acting under supplementary in.
structions from the attorney general
District Attorney John L. Neeley yes
terday morning authorized saloons
which had moved from the half-mile
zone around the Armory Hall when
Company I was modified, to return
to their original places of business.
The instructions are based on a new
Interpretation of the proclamation is
sued by the president, by which tenn
porary camps are excluded from the
operation of the regulations.
This point was brought out when
Company | was ordered to mobilize
and the district attorney construed
the rules to include temporary camps.
AS there was ample time before the
company moved to the armory. the
district attorney requested an opinion
from Attorney General Gregory, and
was advised that the rules governed
all camps, whether permanent or tenn
porary, regardless of their site.
In dispatches from Washington last
week the Associated Press announced
that the rules had been changed to
exclude temporary camps from the
operation of the regulations, but the
district attorney announced that un-
til official instructions were received,
the original orders would be enforced.
As the matter was repeatedly brought
! to his attention, he yesterday sent
the following telegram to the attor-
ney general:
The Correspondence.
The Attorney General:
Company |, First Florida Infantry,
| drafted into federal service, is camp
! ed in the state armory at this place,
| have enforced paragraph /, of Bull
letin 45, July %. Has there been such
modification of the same as to elimi-
nate local temporary camp from its
operation.
NEELEY.
The following answer was immed-
/ lately received:
United States Attorney:
Bulletin As has been modified so as
to exclude case of state armory re
ferred to. You must not take this as
passing upon the status of any other
camps in your district.
GREGORY.
Official Interpretation.
The following from the official bull
letin of August II, is the official in
depreciation:
With purpose to make clear that the
regulations established by the presi-
den providiting alcoholic liquors with
in miles of military camps were net
intended to apply to all the small or
temporary camps have been, of
may be, established from time to time
throughout the United States. the war
department today issued the follow
ing statement:
The president directs that the trm
military camps" employed in the
! regulations established by the presi-
dent and published in paragraph I of
Bulletin As, war department, dated
July %, 1917, shall be construed to
refer only to cantonments or camps
established for the mobilization and
training of divisions of the national
army or divisions composed of mem
bers of the national guard drafted
into the service of the United States,
to training camps established under
authority of section 81 of the national
defense act, approved June 3, 1916, to
camps at ports of embarkation, to
other camps designated as embarka-
tion camps, to camps designated as
ambulance camps, and to camps desig-
mated as aviation camps.