Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-23
DRY LEGISLATION FINDS favor
WITH MIDDLE WESTERN STATES

, that it is also illegal to possess any
apparatus, implements, machine or
device, jugs and other containers.
used in the manufacture or storing
Of liquor.
1t further provides that the de-
struction Of any apparatus, ,imple-
ment or machine, any recipe, formula
or directions, Or any container, Is
prima facie evidence that these were
for use in connection with the manu-
facture or possession of liquor, and
that any building wherein liquor is
sold is subject to abatement proceed
ings and closing for any kind Of use
for one year.
Missouri.-More stringent enforce
ment of prohibition laws was pro-
posed in seven bills introduced in the
recent session of the Missouri legisA
lature. Two of the most important
measures passed include a general
regulatory prohibition act and an
act providing that cities may pass
ordinances to aid in the enforcement
of prohibition.
The regulatory prohibition meas
ure gives police officials and county
officers more power to enforce the
Eighteenth Amendment. and imposes
heavy fines and penalties for viola
tons. 1t does not affect soft drink
eSta bliShments or manufacturers of
proprietary medicines, operating I'M
der government permits.
The measure carries drastic provi-
sions for the punishment Of persons
apprehended while transporting
liquor, and makes it felony punish
able by i sentence to the state penl-
Tertiary for anyone to manufacture,
sell or give away "moonshina, hootch.
or corn whiskey," that causes loss
of life. sight, or is the cause Of maim-
ing an imbiber of the liquor. Ply
provisions of the bill. to charge more
for liquor prescriptions than for
other prescriptions.
A measure introduced by Mrs. Mel
Gene I. Smith, representative from
st. Louis county, and enacted, per-
mitS cities, towns and villages to
enact ordinances to aid in the en-
forcement of the federal prohibition
laws within their territory.
Observation-Disclosures enacted two
laws on prohibition at the last seS-
sion. One makes bootleggers or per-
sons who give away liquor liable for
damag eS growing out of it's consump-
ton. either to the person drinking it.
or because of any act committed by
him while under its influence. The
other makes it prima facie evidence
of guilt when any person has illicit
liquor in q private dwelling, or when
he breaks Lottles or containers or
throws them away or pours out the
contents when about to be arrested
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North Dakota.-North Dakota's re-
cent legislature wrote into the stat
utes virtually all the provisions of
the federal prohibition enforcement
laws, thus insuring state prosecution
of liquor cases independently of fed
eral action. 1t also adopted a clause
permitting each physician in the
state to have five gallons of liquor a
year for prescription use.
Ohio.-Two prohibition bills were
passed by the Ohio legislature and
signed by Governor Donahey.
One bill c!assifies as second degree
murder the act of furnishing death
dealing liquor. makes the manufac-
turc of distilled liquor felony. makes
the soliciting of orders for liquor a
felony, and the solicitor equally
guilty with the person selling it.
The other cnacts into the state
laws the federal paddock" clause.
This would permit Ohio courts to
order locked up for period of not
more than one year premises declared
to be nuisances because of the manu-
facture or sale thereon of intoxicat-
ing liquor.
Ol>Iahoma.-Prohibiti legislation
came up early in the ninth Oklahoma
1nu cJot Ir,y
acted. The first declares that any
person who sells. gives away or
otherwise furnishes any liquor,
preparation or compound for bever-
age purposes which causes death,
shall be guilty of murder. The,
second bars the manufacture of dis
tilling apparatus except by persons
properly licensed by federal authori-
ties; bars the making of liquor or
any mash. wort or wash; declares
the discovery of liquor making APP
paratus or materials in any building
or enclosure to be prima facie evil
dence against the person in actual
possession of the building or en-
closure, and fixes the penalty for
violation at 500 to $4,000 and one to
ten years.
Both bills were drawn by H. T.
Laughbaum, state superintendent of
the Anti-Saloon League, and had the
leagues's support.
South Dakota.-The 1923 session of
the South Dakota legislature took
no action either for or against pro-
hibition.
Texas.-Two measures affecting
Texas prohibition laws, and passed
by the recent session of the legisla-
ture. have been approved by Gov
ernor Neff. One bill permits removal
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