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2 HIGH LICENSE BILL MAY BE THE SOLUTION COL. B.: A. MORGAN TALKS OF HIS PENDING MEASURE. Author May Amend The Bill-Im possible Now to Say What the General Assembly Will Do at Coming Session. Greenville, November 13.-Repre sentative 'B. A.. Morgan has given close study to -re whiskey proiblem and he is -probably one of the best informed men in the state on the sub ject. In an interview with the State's correspondent he had some interest ing things to say and the mciated question "After the dispensary what?" was commented upon at some length. In reply to tat query Mr. Morgan said: "I wish I could tell you. Ordinari ly on questions of great moment one can pretty well tell what the legis lature is going to do, but in this in stance it would not d even to guess at it. "You see, when we adjourned last winter, but one county had voted the dispensary out, and since t1hat time such a number have gone 'dry' that unless you knew what effect the go ing 'dry' would have on the respec tive representatives, it is idle to es ti-mate the aciion of the house. If I remember correctly, some counties have voted out the dispensary whose -representatives were standing by it heretofore." "Do you thirrk the -legislature at the coming session will take action in the matter?" "Yes, I think there will be posi. tive action of some kind in t1hle legis lature the coming session. I under stand there are a number of bills be ing -prepared by various members, and -tat bills covering- almost every phase of the question will be introa duced." "What abloutc your license bill, Mr. ~- Morgan?" "I have felt a little lonely with my license bill last session. At that time but one county, as before said, had voted 'out the dispensary and any idea -looking to abolishing the madhline was quite -foreign to most of 'rhe .mem:bers, -so, when I introduced a bi to that effect and it was promptly referred tio the committee on the dispensary and that committee as promp'aly return Sed an unfavorable report, I was left in a, class all t'o myself. In the five ses sions I have attended not a session has passed but some biHl looking to a change in the dispensary law\fhes been introduced, but -not one of them went to: the r-oot of the thing and -sought to dig it up entirely. Such a b~ill was so out of the 'ordinary, the Brice bill was not excepted, that it really seemed -to some as foolhardy and some newspapers criticised it only s'o far as to say that if its author -;-thought -he was m-al:ng a short c-ut to fame lie was woefully mistaken. >: But if I mistake not, some counties in which such criticisms were made have since administered the dope. "My license -bill is on the calendar for next session, 'being No. 460, lhav tinued. I think, now, that I wil' amend * the bill so as to make it of force in all counties alike, in order to con dBorm to the constitution, and will, therefore, ma'ke it in the first place a pure and simple prohibitrion meas -ure, with provisions allowing the peo pIe' in the various counties to vote utpon the question whethber liquor shall be sold in speh county inder the license or county dis'pensary system. If the people vote against bloth sys tems, why, .the countcy remains dry. In other words, it is local option be -' tween prohibition, lhigthi license and county ~dispensary." "Is high hicense a 'barroom system, Mr. Morgan?"' "No, 'high license is not a barroom system. Why, I will take 'the consti' tution and pr1ove to you that i't is the maost prohibitive system under the constitution. I (hiave been amused at good people 'holding up their hands in holy horror at the high license system and calling it 'the barroom system, when, if they but -knew it, a legialature can pass a constitutional law permitting whiskey drunk over cournezrs where they buy it, permit it to a sold after nighr eor any length of Ma&rs they see fit to sell or buy; Contend that it can orly be sold by the drink. but all this is by the dis pensary y becaiuse only in the provisions rclating to the license Sys tem is there any provision -.Lat it mustn't be sold between sunset and sunrise and not sold on -the premises, must n,t be sold in less quantities than half pint. Take the constitu tion and read the clause relating to the matter and it takes no judge or court to construe it, the meaning is in plain English. I would ask you to publish the section of the constitu tion relating to dhis business and let the reauder construe it for himself. "My purpose is -to minimize the business; niot to magnify it. I have therefore put every restriction around it known to the dispensary law and many others beside, and to my mind, the license system is the most pro hibitive under the constitution. I don't mean to say that tfh'e dispensary law now has many restrictions thrown around the business, but if the dis pensary as now in force goes, and you ask what next? I am simply telling you that it is in the power of the leg lature to pass a law that will per mit the stuff to be bought and sold after ni:giht, drunk over the counter if need be, and in as small quantities as the legislautre -may see fit to make it, but that if the license system is adopted no constitutional law can be enacted that will permit any such things. "But I have said enough," contin ued Mr. Morgan, "because I dion't know what the .conditions 'may be by the time we meet in January, and I may 'have to recast. my intentions as to wihat kind of bill I will offer, or may think it best not to offer any at all. I sha:ll do -then as I have always done, do that which I think is to the best interest of the people as a whole, acting s'oleAy with the lights then be fore me. I introduced the high license bill for this very reason, because I thought I saw in the not far away fu ture a disintegration of the dispensary and I wanted. to offer -to the people a -measure that would at least cause them to study the .only methods of fered by 'the cons'tit-ution, and ulti mately select the bes.t, whether it be a prohibitive 'one, or opie by 'the li cense system or by the -county dis pensary system."' Constitutional Provision. The .constitutional provision refex' red to is as ifollows: "Artiole eight-Section 2. In the exercise of :the police power th~e gen eral assembly shall have the right to prohibit the manufucture and sale and retail of -alcoholic 'liquors or ~bever ages within the state. (Phe genera-1 assembly 'may license persons or cor porations .to manufacture and sell and retail alcoholic liquors and beverages within the state un'der such rules and restrictions :as ij/deems proper; or the FOR MAYOR. A T. Brown is hereby nominated for' the office of mayor" and pledged to abide the result of the democratic nomination. Dr. Van Smith is hereby announced as a candidate'for mayor and is pledg ed to abide the result of the primary election. FOR ALDERMAN. nhos. B. Wicker is hereby -nnoun ced -is a candidate for alderman from Ward m' and will abide the resukt of the Democratic primary.. J. H. Hair is 'hereby nominated as a candidate for alderman from Ward One and will a'bide result of demo cratic primary. L. W. Floyd is hereby announced for alderman from Ward 3 anxd pledg ed to abide result of Democraric pri J. J. Langford is'hereby r'nnounced for alderman from Ward 4 and will abide result of Democratic primary. J. R. Thornton is hereby ann'ounced as a .candidate for 'alderman from Ward 4, 'and is pledged to abide the result of the Democratic primary. I'. S. Hudson is 'hereby nominated for alderman from Ward 5 and is pledged to abide the result of Demo crac primary. V. M. Thomas is hereby nomina ted as a candidate for alderman from Ward 5, and is pledged to abide the general assembly may 1)yi1); t1t, ma:iiaCture and sale and re.ail of a,coholic liquo-s and beverage w: the state, and may auothoriz' an:d empower state, county and municipa' (officers, all or either, under the au thority and in the name of the state, to buy of any market and retail with in the state liquors and beverages in such packages and quantities, under such rules and regulations, as it deems expedient: Provided, That no .license shall be granted to sell alco holic beverages in less quantities than one-half pint, or 'to sell them between sundown and sunrise, or to sell,them to be drunk on the premises: and pro vided further, 'Dhat the general as sembly shall nlot delegate to any mu nicipal corporation the power to is sue licenses to sell the same." Rather Near. Washington Post. "I knew an tol'd fell-ow down in North Carolina -who was -a hard-fisted citizen," said N. B. 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