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Show PROPOSED LI fflASJpC Special Committoc Unanimously Unanimous-ly Agrees on This Provision of New Liquor Bill. CUSTOM GREATEST EVIL OP TRAFFIC, SAYS BODY Discusses Elimination of Brewery-Controlled Saloons; May Report Thursday. All treating is to be barred by tho proposed bill for tho regulation of tho liquor traffic, now under consideration by tho Bpccial committco of tho sonato and the house appointed to draft a measure on the liquor question. This provision of tho bill was unanimously njjreod to by the committee at its mooting moot-ing Saturday forenoon. Tho members of tho corpmittoo wero agreed that tho groatest evil which cornea from tho liquor traffic is that occasioned oc-casioned bv tho practice of treating. Tt. was decided to incorporate in tho new bill the nnti-treating sections of the Gardner liquor bill of twp .years ago. At Saturdaj-'s meeting Senator Bonner Bon-ner X. 8mith, chairman of the committee, commit-tee, waB absent, and in his absence it was decided that no definite action with reference to a decision on any proposed sections should be taken. However, tho committee went thoroughly into a great man regulation features of tho proposed pro-posed bill and tentatively ngreed to several of them. Brewery Owned Saloons, Tn thc absence of Senator Smith, "Representative "Rep-resentative Eock M. Pope acted as chairman of the committee. The Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania regulation law was read and discussed at considerable longth. Among tho featuurea of the proposed regulations taken up wero tho elimination elimina-tion .brewery owned saloons, the ownership, own-ership, by manufacturers and wholesalers wholesal-ers of buildings occupied by saloons, tho uso of attractive signs by saloons, the employment of persons under 21 yoars of ago in saloons or breweries, the question ques-tion of tho sale of liquor to Indians and other wards of the government, the right of the wifo or other relative to notify a saloonkeeper not to Bell to a certain individual, the romoval of chairs, tables, music and gambling paraphernalia par-aphernalia from saloons, tho anti-treat-iug clause, the liability of a saloonkeeper saloon-keeper for acts of his "employees, the labeling of intoxicating liquor shipped, between poiut3 within the slate, the consigning of liquor to fictitious persons. per-sons. Agrees on Most of Features. The committee has practically agTocd upon most of the regulation features desired for the bill and theso will bo drafted and presented to tho committee commit-tee in tho form of sections of the bill Monday forenoon when the committee will again meet at 10 o'clock. Prom the present progress it is probable prob-able that the committee will be considering consid-ering a completed bill .by Wednesday, and after the Unal amendments are made will be in a position to submit the measure to both houses of the legislature legisla-ture "by next Thursday. |