The Alaska daily empire., 1923-07-23

Dry Legislation Finds Favor
 i'm Many States, Middle West

ed Press. 1.-The question of enforc- ing prohibition laws came up recent ly in the legislatures of fourteen central states, and action was taken as follows:
 ILLINOIS-The 53d general assem- bly, enacted no wet" legislation.
 Two dry bills were passed. One of them provides for fund for the enforcement of prohibition drawn from fines collected for violations of the law. prosecuted by the states attorneys and the attorney general. This bill will relieve taxpayers of the burden of enforcement, and, it Is believed, create surplus.
 The other bill makes the man who sells poison liquor which causes death punishable the same as fs'he committed murder.
 INDIANA-Four bills, two of which amended laws already in force, hay ing to do with strengthening of the state prohibition law, were passed by the Indiana general assembly at it's recent session and have been signed by Gov Warren T. McCray.
 The bills, briefly, provide that: Persons operating vehicles while under the influence of liquor are guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding $500, to which shall be added jail sentence of from ten days to six months. Persons convicted a second time 1f Col foI h witdfsAsjail sentence or from one to five years.
 Its is unlawful to have in posses sion orss under control any still for manufacturing intoxicating liquor in violation of the laws of the state. Persons caught so doing are guilty of felony, punishable by from one to five years imprisonment and fine ranging from s100 to $1.000. Posses sion of any still or distilling apparat- us not registered according to the provisions of the laws of the United States shall be, prima facie evidence that such possession was for the purpose of manufacturing fntoxicat. ing liquors.
 Anyone transporting liquor in any vehicle, or by water or aircraft. shall be guilty of felony, punish able by from one to two years inn prisonment and fine not to ex- ceed $1.000
 A fine ranging from s100 to $1 ,000 and 30 days to six months imprison- ment is provided for the first con viction on charge of giving away, selling, bartering, etc., of intoxicat- ing liquor. Second offense punish able by Imprisonment of from one to two years and $200 to $1000 fine.
 IOWA-Seven new prohibition laws were enacted by the Iowa legislature which adjourned April 27. A sum- mary of them follows
 Bills defining the sale of liquor that causes death as manslaughter; declaring illegal the possession of materials with which to make liquor; extending search and seizure laws to cover those materials; making the driving of motor car while intoxi- cated subject to a penalty of $1,000 fine or one year in prison; apply 
 ing a special penalty for the misde- meanor of furnishing liquor to a minor; providing for the confisca- tion of vehicles used to transport liquor, and defining any person twice convicted of liquor crimes as a per sistent violator.
 KANSAS-When the law makers of Kansas forty years ago enacted the first prohibitory law they did not anticipate that the control of moon. sinners" would ever become state problem. Nor in later years, when the prohibitory laws were frightened up by the bone dry" law and other enactments, did they contemplate, any "moonshine" menace. So it be- fell the 1923 Kansas legislature to