The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-10
HOW LIQUOR IN
 TERRITORY IS
 TO BE HANDLED
Control with Federal Court Under New Rivers Bill
 Now Approved

Making statutory the present reg ulations and throwing control into the District Court, the Rivers li- quor bill passed the Territorial House yesterday by vote of Il to 5. It had previously passed the Senate where it was introduced by Senator Victor c. Rivers of the Fourth Division. The House has in- serted one word for purpose of clar- ification. which is expected to be concurred in by the Senate, and it will then go to the Governor.
 The vote in the House, where the McCutcheon high license saloon bill had previously passed, but is now slated to die in the Senate, was: For-Anderson, Coffey, Dan Green, |, Kennedy, Lafblin, Nerland, Race, Rogge, Ross, Tolbert Scott and Smith; against - Davis, Lichten- berg, McCutcheon, Nell Scott and Speaker Joe Green.
 The complete provisions of the new law are as follows:
 That no person. firm corpora tion or company shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale, or keep for sale, traffic in, barter, or exchange for , goods in this Territory, any intox- icating liquor except as hereinafter provided; but this shall not apply to sales made by a person under provisions of law requiring him to sell personal property. Whenever the term intoxicating liquor" is used in this Act, it shall be deemed to include whiskey, brandy, rum, gin, wine. ale, porter, beer, hooch- inoo and all spirituous. vinous. malt and other fermented or dis titled liquors
 That the licenses provided for in this Act shall be issued by the Clerk of the District Court. or any sub division thereof in compliance with the order of the Court or Judge thereof duly made and entered; and the Clerk of the Court shall keep a full record of all applica- tions for licenses, and of all recom- mendations for and remonstrances against the granting of licenses and of the action of the Court there on
 That before any license is grant, ed, as provided in this Act, it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Court that a majority of the citi- zens over the age of twenty-one years residing within two miles of the place where intoxicating liquor is to be manufactured, bartered, sold and exchanged, or bartered, sold or exchanged, have in good faith consented to the manufac- ture, barter, sale and exchange, or the barter, sale and exchange of the same: and the burden shall be upon the applicant or applicants to show to the satisfaction of the Court that a majority of the citi- zens over twenty-one years of age have consented thereto and no li- cense shall be granted in the ab- sence of such evidence; provided that when it is made to appear that a majority of said citizens over the age of twenty-one years of any one place have consented to the manu- facture, barter, sale and exchange or the barter, sale and exchange of intoxicating liquor, no further proof of the consent of the citizens of the place where such intoxicating i- quor is to be manufactured, bar tered, sold and exchanged, or bar tered, sold and exchanged, will be required for twelve months there after.
 References
 Provided. however, that any ap- plication for license coming from within an incorporated town shall have attached thereto in lieu of a majority of the citizens of that dis trict, list of at least five refer ences as to the integrity of the ap- plicant and the desirability of the issuing of license for the prem ises mentioned therein. The Clerk of the Court, upon receipt of each application from within an incor- porated town, shall notify the City Council of that town of the neces- sity for action on the application by the Council, in regular or spec ial meeting and the filing with the Clerk of the Court of certificate showing the action taken. A fail- ure of the municipal officers to act upon applications for licenses within the period specified in the notice furnished them shall be con- sidered default and shall subject the city to the penalty of losing the right to refund as herein pro- vided. At the time set for the hearing, the Court shall consider