The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-12-18

after two years viii require half of the
above appropriation hut during these
ensuing two years the law should be
agsressively enforced in every, quarter.
The United States revenue agent has
thirty-nine $3.50 men la HIS department
to control Illicit distiinng ana other
revenue measures In Virginia. We
| have not fourth as many.
Secretary McAdoo has requested
| congress to appropriate one hundred
and nifty thousand dollars (sI5O.000)
TO enforce the prohibition law in Alas
| ka. ! mention these Items to give
some parallel idea OF the force and
funds necessary to enforce our law.
Ninth, The authority of the COM
| missioEer of prohibition over police
| boards, mayors of cities. city and town
councils, city managers. etc, In the
| enforcement of this law by local DO
! lice should be clearly, EXPIRE ssed.
| tenth, That all beverages manufac-
4 tured in other states and sold on the
| virginia market shall pay to the state
/ OF Virginia license tax of Ave hum
dred dollars $4,000 each and that such
permits shall be issued subject to sum-
mary revocation for cause by the COM
missioner of prohibition.
! Eleventh. That all vendors of soft
/ drinks and all vendors of patent med
ictnes. ffavoring extracts, etc. be re-
CURED to pay n state license OF one
dollar (sI.00) each to the commissioner
| of prohibition. such permits being sub
tect to suspension summariiy. or reyo-
cation by the commissioner of prohi.
bition for cause.
Il know OF no other cffectual way
Of dealing with the drug nuisance. The
use of drugs for beverages is very
much exaggerated, but that they are
used occasionally cannot be denied and
tfn f1aer "a al a Nuf~
prohibition generally is engendered by
their use ia beyond all question.
we might take up long list Of
toilet, antiseptic. favoring extracts,
preparations, bittars, etc. and lsEislate
them out of the state. as Jamaica gin
ger has been legislated out of the state,
but no sooner will the law pass than
they will be followed by even greater
multitude under different names and
the so-cailed drug evil, r.ay rum DRINKS.
etc. will go on as before. t"t IL power
be vested in the commissioner of pro- |
hibttion TO revoke or suspend licenses
under which druggists and general !
merchants sell such articles the very
fact that such license Is subject to |
revocation will compel vendors to ex-
ercise the care in preventing their use
Scr beverage purposes which has not |
been exercised heretofore.
THE revenue thus derived from
these licenses should be likewise COW
cred into the state treasury.
Twelfth. I recommend that the
law be so amended as to further com
pensate constahles, sheriffs and other |
peace officers in searching for, discov-
ering. seizing and transporting liq-
ours still and distilling apparatus If |
Il was possible under the state con-
stitution to give TO the parties max
ing such arrests one-half of the fines |
irlposed upon conviction nothing
would do more 10 stimulate the de-
lection. arrest and Suppression Of these
offenders. but the constitution does
not permit this. Therefore. their fees
81 ould he considerably extended to
cover transporting services and in
creased. The adoption Of this recon-
nendation will not have any material
effect upon any class OF offenders ex-
cept Illicit distilleries but in their
suppression suitable compensation for
officers will go a long way.
Thirteenth. ! suggest that the law
he so amended that druggists may OBJ
tain wine for pharmaceutical purposes
III making wine of ipecac and wine
of anthony, etc, etc
Fourteenth. | recommend that pa
r3graph sixty-two concerning wineries
be stricken out.
Fifteenth. | recommend that the
special license to hotel keepers for
the use of ardent spirits for culinary
purposes he stricken out The fed
eral government forbids the transpor-
tation into this state of ardent spirits
for culinary purposes and we should
harmonic our Virginia legislation
with the federal legislation i'm this re-
spect,
sixteenth. I recommend that all
special officers, special police zaer.
railroad conductors, captains OF steam
vessels on regular lines. and other
special peace o.icers of common car
riers and corporations who are un~
der the general statutes from time to