The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-12-19
NO LIQUOR To MOVE
AFTER JANUARY 10
Roper's Ruling Gives But
Short Time To Get
Rid of Whiskey.
Louisville Herald.


No liquors or other Intoxicating
beverages can be removed from bond
for export after January 16.
Unless whiskey and other intoxi-
eating liquors removed from bond
for export and beverage purposes
have left the boundaries of the Unit
ed States before national prohibition
goes into effect next month they will
be subject to provisions of the eigh-
teenth amendment to the federal con-
stitution.
Such Is the ruling Of Daniei W.
Roper revenue commissioner at
Washington, as received here yestcr-
day by United States District Attorney
William Voris Gregory, and gives hut
five weeks for distillers and dealers to
export liquors and other stocks On
hand for beverage purposes.
The ruling is a point upon Which
hundreds of distillers and dealers
have been interested in for months
and has brought many anxious in
quirers to the office of the district
attorney and collector of internal rev.
enue during the last few weeks. 1t
is stringent and far-reaching in its
effect and under its provisions any
liquors in transit for export and beI-
erage purposes that failed to get he
yond the limits of the United States
before Jan, 16, would be subject TO
seizure and confiscation.
Under the ruling liquors and other
beverages, even though such bever-
ages were aboard a ship at an
American port, would be subject to
the provisions of the eighteenth
amendment in event the ship had not
left the port.
Text of The Ruling.
The ruling received by Attorney
Gregory from the commissioner at
Washington reads:
No person shall on or after the date
when the eighteenth amendment of
the Constitution of the United States
goes into effect, January 16, 1920,
manufacture, sell, barter, transport,
export, import, deliver, furnish or
possess any intoxicating liquor except
as authorized in this act and all OF
the provisions of this act shall be
literally construed to the end that the
use of intoxicating liquors as a bev-
erage may be prevented.
In the opinion of Attorney Grego-
rey this section means that distilled
spirits, wines, beers and other intox-
icating liquors intended for beverage
purposes must be removed from and
have left the territorial jurisdiction
of the United States on the date the
eighteenth amendment becomes eff
fective.
Won't Accept Bond.
Filing OF n declaration for export
or the execution of a bond covering
the tax on the spirits in transit or the
fact that the spirits are in transit in
his country, or are in the warehouse
at the port Of export, or are aboard
at the port of export on the day when
the eighteenth amendment becomes
effective, will not be accepted as a
sufficient compliance with the statute
prohibiting the expectation Of intox-
icating liquors on or after January
Is.
. When the liquor is to be exported
into another country whose territory
Is contiguous with the United States
such liquor must be outside the terri
tory of the United States when the
eighteenth amendment goes into .e:'
feet. Where the expectation is to be
made from seabOard port for export, ,
will be regarded as hav- .
ing been accomplished only when the
ship carrying the liquor has left the
port.
This means that the liquor must
leave the warehouses in Louisville or
other points a long way from port al
least a week or ten days before the
becomes effective. In
other words, it means that distillers
and dealers must make their ship .
mcnts from Louisville and Kentucky
shortly after the first of the New
Year.
If the ban is lifted by the Supreme
Court Monday it will leave barely
more than four weeks to make ship .
.aeuts to New York or other seaports .
In Nm, Entnv Xour Meals