The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-10
BONE DRYNESS
MADE CERTAIN
BY HOUSE BILL
Advocates of Actual Prohibition
Slipped One Over During
Last Hours Of Session
BOOZE FOR REGISTERED
PHARMACISTS USE ONLY
Druggists May Import for Lawful
Uses but Must Make Strict
Affidavit on Receipt

Governor Frazier today signed
North Dakotas first bone-dry law.
No smile goes with that statement,
nor is it necessary to qualify or mod
ify the term "bone dry" as in Senator
Heckle's senate bill s..
During the closing hours of the
Fifteenth legislative assembly great
victory was one for actual prohibi-
tion in North Dakota. Just how 1t
came about even the journal of the
59th day does not very clearly show,
but House Bill 80, amended in the
senate, was re.amended when it came
back to the house, and the senate,
without giving the matter great deal
of thought, apparently, concurred.
The result, it was found when House
Bill 80 was engrossed, Is an act which
Is so actually and completely bone
dry that even did not the federal stat
ute take effect July l. North Dakota's
drinking days, to all intents and pur-
poses, would end on that date. And
today House Bill 80 was messaged to
the secretary of state with the COVER
nor's signature nesting on the proper
line, all ready to 60 into the session
laws of 1917, as probably the most
important act Of the Fifteenth as
sembly.
What the Law Says.
On and after July !, 1917, under
House Bill 80, 1T shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation to
deliver or receive or have in possess
sion for delivery within this state
any intoxicating liquor for any pur-
pose whatsoever, except that such
liquors may be delivered or received
for delivery by. common carriers to
registered pharmacists, to be disposed
of by them as provided by law.
Section 2 defines the form Of affi-
-davit to be used, as follows.
L.. Uclus uTSL uuly
sworn, say: that am over 81 years
old; that my full name is ...........
......; that am the person who or
dered and am the rightful consignee
of the intoxicating liquor recorded on
this page; that am a registered
pharmacist and conduct drug store
at lot. 49,, block. and plat. of
the town, village or city of ........,
n. D., and that this liquor is intended
for sale by me as prescribed by law
and will not be received, used. given
away or sold in violation of this act
low oF or
SlSneu, ......... ....., COHo15Aoc
and registered pharmacist n,n4,n.
The Identification and Section, 3.
providing that the attorney general
shall supply uniform affidavit blanks,
remain as in the original bill ,
Section 4 reads: 1T is further pro-
vided that any person, firm or cor
poration who shall deliver, or receive
or have in possession for delivery any
intoxicating liquor to other than a
registered pharmacist.
The amendments which were slip.
ped in at at the 11th hour, when ex;
ponents of lukewarm, prohibition evil
IDENTIFY were mapping, wre made in the
senate by the committee on temper
ance on the 47th day. On the 5Sth
day of the session, just before final
passage. the bill was further amend.
ed in the senate to provide for the
shipment of limited quantities for per.
sonal use. This last amendment was
lost somewhere between the 5Sth day,
when the bill left the senate, and the
59th day, when the house cOncurred
in the first senate amendment. There
were no other additions to the bill
as originally printed. The only i'm.
portant omission in the original bill
was the clause in the affidavit read
ing: that this liquor is intended for
my personal or immediate family use
and will not be received, used, given
away or sold in violation of this act. "
In it's original form Representative
Bowman's bill did not prohibit the i'm.
portation of intoxicating liquors for
personal or family use, nor did it re-
strict the quantity which might be
legally introduced. When the bill
first came before the senate it had
been amended to limit personal con-
SuuULlOI " AOuA Au0ACo Va wAl0nOyS
five gallons of wine and u quarts Of
beer every 30 days. After the house
had finished with it, the bill appeared,
in the form noted above, and in this
form it goes on North Dakota's stat
ute books to become effective July 1,
the emergency clause having been
dropped in the final shuttle.
Governor Approves.
II consider this bill long forward
step toward actual prohibition" said
Governor Frazier in discussing the
measure. without this bill there
would have been some question as to
the effectiveness Of the federal bone
dry law, so far as North Dakota is
concerned. Withfthisr law on our
statute books, the federal act becomes
certainly effective, and even should
the federal law be held unconstitu-
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