The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-02
LIQUOR is IMMUNE
IN ONES OWN HOME
May Be Served to Bona Eide
Guests Under Prohibit
ton Law.
ALCOHOL CONTENT FIXED
Penalty Does Not Apply to
Making Cider and Fruit
Juices.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 1.-Possession OF
any quantity of liquor in ones dwelling
is lawful under the nationwide prohibi-
ton enforcement act as agreed on to-
day by the Senate and House conferees.
Liquors may be served to bona fide
guests when entertained in the dwelling.
but the burden of proof as to their legal
disposition is placed on the possessor in
any court action concerning the same.
After weeks of consideration and at
tempts to compromise the Senate and
House bills dealing with the enforcement
OF national prohibition, conferees APP
pointed from the Senate and House Jul
dietary committees to-day made public
their final agreement
Chased as Intoxicating.
All liquors containing more than one
half per cent. of alcohol are classed as
intoxicating. That part of the confer
ence report reads:
'The words beer, wine or other in
toxicatIng malt or vinous liquors. In
the war prohibition act shall be hereafter
construed to mean any such beverage
which contains one half of 1 per centum
or more of alcohol by volume provided
that the foregoing definition shall not
extend to dealcoholized wine nor to any
beverage or liquid produced by ths
process by which beer. ale, porter or
wine Is produced, IL 1t contains less
than one-half OF 1 per centum OF alcohol
by volume and is made as prescribed In
this act, and is otherwise denominated
than as beer, ale or porter and Is con-
tanned and sold in or from such sealed
and labelled bottles, casks or containers
as the Commissioner (of Internal Reve-
nue) may by regulation prescribe"
That part of the conference report
dealing with the use of liquor in ones
home reads:
at shall not be unlawful to possess
liquors in ones private dwelling while
the same is occupied and used by him
as his dwelling only, and such liquor
need not be reported, provided such
liquors are for use only for the personal
consumption of the owner thereof and
his family residing in such dwelling and
of his bona fide guests when entertained
by him therein; and the burden OF proof
shall be upon the possessor in any acton
concerning the same to prove that such
liquor was lawfully acquired. possessed
and used"
Cider and Fruit Juices.
The provision Of the bill as 1t passed
the Senate which specifically provided
that ''the penalties provided In this act
against the manufacture OF liquor with
out a permit shall not apply to person
for manufacturing Notwithstanding cider
and fruit juices exclusively for use in his
home" was modified by the conferees.
The conference report carries this word
ing on that subject:
THE penalties provided in this act
against the manufacture of liquor with
out a permit shall not apply to person
for making Notwithstanding cider and
fruit juices exclusively for use in his
home, but such cider and fruit juices
may be sold and delivered to persons
having permits to manufacture vinegar"
The penalty provision of the act as
agreed upon by the conferees follows
ANY person who manufactures or sells
liquor in violation of this title shall for
first offence be fined not more than
| 81 900 or impr isoned for not exceeding
six months, and for a second or subse-
ouent offence shall be fined not less than
5000 nor more than $4,000 and be i'm
prisoned not less than one month nor
more than five years"