Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-05 | Page 3 | Bill Proposes Regulation of Liquor Sales

BILL PROPOSES REGULATION OF LIQUOR SALES Strict regulations for all dealers, wholesale whole-sale and retail, in intoxicants are provided pro-vided by a bill presented to tlie house yesterday by Representative Lily C. Wolslenholme of Salt Lake. This bill limits the salt of liquor by wholesalers and manufacturers to persons holding retail re-tail liquor licenses. It also provides thnt re'ai'.ers shall not sell intoxicants in wholesale quantities. Under the term? of the bill, the sale of liquor in cafes ana restaurants is barred, except in the dining rooms nf hotels, and then only at meal hours. The hours specified for such sales are from 6 to ft o'clock in the forenoon, from 12 noon until '2 o'clock in the afternoon and from j to P o'clock in the evening. Sach sales arc barrel n Sundays. The bill extends the time of eh'sing retail re-tail saicor.F to 2 o'clock in the morninc, except Sunday mornincs. Cabarets are under the ban in this bid, for provision Is made that there shall be no music or entertainment en-tertainment of any kind at any place where liquor is i-old. Clubs selling liquor come under the same general provisions as retail liquor dealers and only bona fide clubs, whose members pay dues of at least $18 per year, are to be t given licenses to sell iiquor. Any person who drives a hm-k or automobile auto-mobile conveying persons to places where liquor is unlawfully sold is deemed by the bill to be guilty of a misdemeanor. Mrs. Wolslenholme laughingly suggested that her bill be referred to the committee commit-tee on Irrigation and reservoirs, the committee com-mittee in the house corresponding to that in the senate having under consideration the prohibition bill. Speaker Anderson, huwever, ruled that it should go to the committee on manufactures and commerce.