The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-16
NEW BEER RULES
 SOFTEN KICK

Washington, D. C., July 16-Brew- CTS are to be held strictly account able for all the acts of their em- ployees, as a means of checking the flow of beer having an unlawful all coholic percentage, Prohibition Com missioner Haynes has decided. Com missioner Haynes order, to be effec- tive within few days, through new ly framed regulations now being pre- pared, reverse the stand taken by Commissioner Kramer and Internal Revenue Commissioner Williams.
 Commissioner Haynes said brewers in many parts of the country are de- hberately violating the law and risk ing forfeiture of their licenses by manufacturing and selling beer great ly in excess of one-half of l per cent ferred to the large number of brew cries previously cited for violations who were E~aS- to escape the penal ties that the H W provides by plead ing lack of responsibility, and plac- ing blame for infractions of the law upon careless agents or other en- pIoyees.
 '"T'he rules of law will be made to miscuous selling of beer that falls within the class of alcoholic Iiuuors ?, Commissioner Haynes said sfBrew- CTS under rules soon to be issued. Will be held primarily responsible for the acts of their agents. Stockholders or brewery corporations will not be allowed to plead ignorance of t1e acts or their agents If a brewmas- ter, elther through carelessness or wllfuI disregard of the law, fails to conform to the law and the reg1I1a- tons, the stockholders of that con cern employing him probably will see es1 HceLSe or thelr concern revoked
 we do not purpose to allow cafnoufIage in this matter, and those who are financially interested i1 preweries must be sufficiently inter esleu Tn their concerns to assure themselves that the plants are beix,p run in conformity to law"
 By the new regulations, now prac- ucalIy ready for the signature of Sec Blair, the new Prohibition HnTl. one sioner completely overturns the Drac- tlce of his predecessors. Just before ne ne came into office about twentv-fi1,e DDre"eries, most of them located at enhsyIVan1a, were allowed to res1,,,1e operations after being cited for 1rie iidCons. After hearings officials aJI toWeo the offending concerns to ,oa
 rI. -t1eu assessments and to reopen tbeir pants with the understandi1e +b.+ new adjustments in the personneI hae ae e tite pants might minimize the da1se- or additional violations 0hSet IrII e is now the plan of Comnnissiore-. ~ -Iiy hes, as soon as the ree,IIationS a -, made effective, to condnc{ a aICI ols are l ol the oreweries by detailing +--,;IP | noarnt. n rom his mobile force of 1 epd dIHes tt 10 inspect the breweries
 Ahu tne1r methods of manufac+,I1,s ana distribution. Special agents vii
 De stationed in a number of citiae
 Mnere complaints have Originated | that peer higher than one-ha1f of ona per cent, is being sold openly in bear | and sofe drink saloons Ai D9sr l Comm1ssioner Haynes's decisioD +o
 keep better watch on the breweries 1 Aiu InoTe rlSidIy supervise their oI,t l put and sales, was reached fouoIvirrT :, | conference with State Director Mo ConneH of Pennsylvania Direcfor
 McConuel. finishing Q two weeks in Vestlsat1on of the brewery situation in | Pennsylvania, recommended a tight l ening of the regulations and for spe- cial details of operatives from the l headquarters forces to aid in a swee D. | ing investigation. Most of the brew l cries now running under federal li-
 censes are located in Pennsylvania