New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
Bills Protect
The Hip Pocket
| |AndHO1nle Brew
Assembly Committee Re-
ports Favorably Dry En-
forcement Measures Lib.
eralizing the Volstead Act
Shoppers Are Shackled
Can't Invade Hotel Rooms;
9SuitEverybody butAnder.
son. Says Gage, Sponsox
From a stag corrcsponde,,.

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ALBANY, Feb. 24.-The Mullan- Gag,
dry enforcement bills, with new pro
visions liberalizing the. Volstead act
were reported favorably to-day by IN,
Assembly Committee on Excise. The
principal new features of the bill will
permit:
| !. Carrying liquor on the hip.
t 2. Making home brew.
8. Keeping liquor in the home or ir
a hotel room.
Other new provisions in the bill will
prevent:
/. Shoppers from searching ones
home for liquor.
2. Shoppers from searching mans
hip pocket.
Other amendments temper some Of
the more drastic provisions originally
| in the bill.
Machinery for rushing the bills
through the Legislature was set in
motion in the reporting out of the
measures with their liberal amend.
ments. The next move will be to make
the bills, which are three in number
party measures at a caucus of Senate
Republicans Monday night The fol-
LOWING day the Assembly majority will
caucus on the measures.
Please All But Anderson
I'VE seem to have been able to suit
everybody but Superintendent William
H. Anderson of the Anti-Saloon League ("
said Assemblyman Bert P. Gage, Re-
publican, Of Wyoming, sponsor fer the
bills in the lower house. "Mr. Ander-
son wanted us to go urther than the
Voistead act, but we were determined
10 make the proposed state statute con-
form to the national dry law as CLOSELY
rs possible"
The Anti-Saloon League is rot salts
lied wi h the Mullan- Gage bills and
will make an effort to bring it's own
Dry enforcement measure, introduced
" Its legislative spokesman, Assem-
b yman John w. Slacer, Of Buffalo, to
vote. The leagues bill now is be-
t~re the Assembly Excise Committee
end in all like ihood a request will be
made for hearing on the measure.
The supper ers Of the Mullan-Gage
enforcement measures say they pave
me, way for state cooperation with the
FEDERAL government in enforcement of
re Eighteenth Amendment To this
end state dry enforcement. law is
created. The law is to be enforced by
Ncal officers solely and no provisions
are made for state dry enforcement
department. and he present state ex-
else department is discontinued.
One important feature in the dry
enforcement legislation is a bill which
gives persons who become ill from
over-indulgence in etherized or other
wise adultera.ed liquor the right to sue
extended to the next Of kin of those
who meet their death through drinking
such whisky or other intoxcants IL
legally sold or given away.
Hip-Toters Are Guarded
Persons who carry liquor on the hip
have nothing to fear, as police officers
may not search them on the streets
ven II they rave reason to suspect
they are carrying liquor. Nor is the
r me brewing industry enda ngercd
Trough provisions which would dis
continue the sale of malt and hops for
he purpose Of making beer. Ultra
dry advocates sought to ban the sale
Of these commodities for brewing pur-
i-oses. but the committees turned deaf
>ars to their pleas.
One of the important amendments
Incorporated in the bill is that possess
sion of liquor, by persons not legally
permitted to have it shall be prima
face evidence that it, is to be sold or
hartered. This provision takes the
ace Of the section of the old bill
concerning presumptive evidence
The change was made at the request
of manufacturers of alcohol and liauor
for legitimate PURPOSES, according to
Senator John B. Mullan. of Rochester.
1t was said the bill in it's original form
was too drastic.