Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-17
MAIN PROVISIONS
OF BONE DRY" BILL
Common Carriers Must Make
Deliveries Of Liquors On
Hand In 30 Days


on its way to become part Of the eff
fective statutes of the state as the meas
ure was introduced into the house yes
terday by DR.. Anderson of Hood River.
The bill proposes to make it unlaw-
full for any person to be drunk, on the
street or in his home and provides PEN
atty of a fine of from $40 to 500 or a
jail sentence Of not more than so days,
1t makes it unlawful for anyone not a
common carrier to bring liquor into the
state, and the liquor the common car
Tiers have in their possession when the
act goes into effect must be delivered
or shipped out of the state within 80
days. The common carrier can only de-
liver liquor to those persons who has e
permits from the district attorney. =
The bill declares that an emergency
exists and that it is to go into tffect
as soon as signed by the governor.
Except for short section, the bill
is entirely different from the existing
law.
1t is made unlawful for any per
son to receive, possess, transport, de.
liver, manufacture, give away or bar.
ter any intoxicating liquor within the
state, and the phase Of delivery of any
liquor is declared to be the place Of
sale.
X 1t is provided, however, that any
liquor which is lawfully in the pos
session Of person at the time the
act goes into effect may be lawfully
kept under the act
The sale of ethyl alcohol by drug
gists is placed under strict regula-
ton. No alcohol is to be sold except
on permits or on prescription by Ii
censed physicians.
Permits are to be issued by the
district attorney, and bond OF $3.50
is to be filed by each pharmacist who
is to sell it, the bond to be signed
by two freeholders and approved by
the county judge and county clerk.
The affidavits to be sworn to by the
purchaser are issued in books by the
county clerk, numbered consecutively
and false swearing to an affidavit
or alteration of the affidavit is to be
a violation of the law
No purchaser is to buy more than
two quarts of alcohol in four weeks,
and is required in each affidavit to
state the amount already bought dur
ing the month, in order that the drug
gist may know whether he is entitled
to buy. The affidavits are to be
kept on file by the druggist, open to
inspection by an officer at any time,
and at the end Of each month to be turn
ed over to the county clerk.
Must Label Bottles.
All bottles in which alcohol is
bought must be labeled, the label to
have the name of the druggist, the
name Of the buyer, and the number
Of the permit under which it was
issued, and it is made unlawful for
anyone to have a bottle Of alcohol in
his possession without the label on.
The only people who may buy in
larger quantities than those named
are wholesale druggists, hospitals,
laboratories and manufacturing plants
and similar places which have legitimate
use for larger quantities. Permits may
be issued for these purchases by the dis
trict attornty after he has satisfied him
self that the individual or concern ask
ing for the permit is to use it for the
purpose specified.
Physicians May Prescribe.
Physicians may prescribe liquor OF
alcohol for medicinal use, and re-
strietions are placed on this similar
to those put upon the druggist. The
! physician must issue his prescriptions
with serial numbers for each month
keep file Of the carbon copies, and
turn over the copies to the county each
month.
Only in case Of emergency the ply
sican may administer alcohol or liquor
as stimuIant or restorative, and he
must be prepared to prove that the
emergency existed
The law restricts the delivery Of
alcohol or liquor by common carrieri
to those people who have permit
from the district attorney, for tn
amounts specified, and makes is
violation for any individual or Yirn
not common carrier to bring any int
+ the state.
Carriers having liquor in thei
:. possession at the time the act goe
into effect which they are unable I
deliver must ship it out of the stl'