Show MUST MIX DRINKS II BEFORE PATRON Saloonkeepers So Ordered by Ruling Killing Received in Salt lake NO WO COCKTAILS IN STOCK MUST PAY RECTIFIERS RECTIFIERS FIERS FI I ERS LICENSE The retail liquor dealers are no long onS ter er r allowed to mix brown sugar water and aliI prune prime juice in whisky or cocktails in iii advance of orders under penalty of paying a rectifiers license This de has been received by E B H 11 Cal collector of internal revenue from the tho treasury department in Wash Vash Washington Washington ington and was wa made by Commissioner John W V Yerkes Under the present ruling the retail dealers deniers will wiil not be itil wed to reduce whisky in any quan quantity lily and every mixed drink must be bein in made ado as it is ordered Retailers will be forced to buy the double stamped goods Kooda and In order to reduce the whiz whis liy ky from no to 80 or 00 DO O proof it will iv e to be sent to the wholesale liquor house where a L rectifiers license is paid I fore this last decision was made Urn tho retail dealers were allowed to mix live tLe gallons and keep it in stock in a demijohn but If they labeled it or put it up in bottles they were liable to toe tae e law and would be forced to pay pa the special tax as rectifiers This ruling as easily sidestepped and the dealers keep as high as forty gallons of hisky reduced under the bar bill but in f demijohns of ot live five gallons t at h History of Decision Tin The recent decision was the result o an investigation as to what con 4 a n rectifier the inquiry having Jl based upon the treasury decision of ot 1901 The rhe special ruling was made madel l Fth v b o l 1305 1905 IDI 5 The rectifiers assessment asse ment i j lIH a year v vV 0 V barkeeper harl who prepares a mixed ill ilk says the th inquirer by way of M I lining and und hands it to a cus CUB cust t tf over the tho bar bur cannot be called a u in lf i for the reason reU that a L tavern ta tan ern rJ n 01 nl saloon Haloon is a L place of or well known th and a n person who goes into lute Olin oarS becomes a guest of the proprietor The fhe bartender is a servant of ot the pro H and therefore a servant of the bU tS When hen the guest requests a t L ii lived drink in contemplation of ot the theLi theLi Li 1 ho he 11 the guest by and through his uti ut the bartender compounds the and of or course Jes Mes not put Jut it UP Ui for sale saie but for consumption the thes s 55 IP if taking place by the acceptance of tho by the bartender f Interpretation I of the Law Tin commissioner says sn s This Thin office J 1 ie unable to concur with you OU in this 1 IS ining When a customer calls for fOI fOIa a 1 L nixed at ut a bar bUI and the bar 1 01 trader complies with the order it is that in mixing the spirits with t flu r materials he makes u a compound liquor for Cor sale In contemplation of the third th rd paragraph of section of or the theP P statutes defining a rectifier and ami if it the law were strictly construed to its letter the special tax of or it 1 rectifier must be required to be bei i id ii by the retail liquor dealer whose barkeeper thus compounded a mixed drink for sale But from the beginning no Ito such in ini ink k i has lIas been given to this statute and it has been uniformly held lint hOt to be the intent of ot the law to take notice lOti of the compounding of liquor In ill this small way wa When therefore a retail liquor dealer at the time of an order given him by lila hia customer cu tomer at the bar mixes a 8 drink or even a bottle of or other compound liquor the asp df 1 SP Is not to be regarded as coming comins ith h the notice of the law and he is isi i lot ot to be required to pay special tax ta as asH n H ret on this account But where if i 1 t compounds any quantity of or liquor a 1 il d keeps leeps It In stock in advance of ii he should be reported f I i r assessment ment as a rectifier Ruling 41 4 Ts i modified to this extent in view of oft tu Ii t f abuses to which it has been put by 2 t til liquor dealers in the cities |