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Show uu TRANSPORTING LIQUOR FOR PERSONAL USE. At times the law operates in a most , perplexing manner. To purchase liquor on the Pacific coast and have it trans ported to Ogden is a crime, but to have : a stock of liquor in San Francisco and ' have it shipped to Ogden for private ' consumption Is not an offending against the dignity of Justice. The supreme su-preme court of the United States is au thority for this distinction between actl legal and illegal. In the decision bv the supreme court I in the case of Street vs. Lincoln Safe i Deposit company, prior to the time i when prohibition went, into eff cl Street stored a stock of wines and liquors li-quors for the use of himself and his family with the Bafe deposit company, which subsequently, nt the instance of the prohibition enforcement authori tien, notified him that the stock must be removed. Justice Clarke, who read the opinion of the supreme court, said that the Volstead act contained no ttpecilfc provision against the storage of liquors under such circumstances a those involved in the case before it He laid stress on the point lhat in enacting en-acting the Volstead act, congress was concerned with the problem of prc-cnting prc-cnting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating in-toxicating liquors for beverage purposes, pur-poses, and seemed to have given but slight attention to the consumption of BUCb relatively small amounts thereof as" might be In existence in private ownership and intended for consump saw wra yay? tion by (he owner, his family or his guests a hen the prohibition amend ment and the act should tnke erfert 1 might be. he said, that the custody of a wart house company of liquors not kept there for Ihe purpose of disposal jin an illegal manner was not declared Unlawful because those who framed the acl did not have such a case In mind, but it was more probably be ! cause congress would not be content Ho allow lawful possession and the stor age of liquors in dwellings having storage facilitie in them while den ling the only possible means of preserving preserv-ing and protecting such liquors to persons per-sons with less commodious houses Id this construction been placed on i ihe law soon after national prohibition prohibi-tion went into effect, the courts of i tab would have been handicapped in trying t keep out Ihe great stream of liquor which llowed over the boundary line from Wyoming, as the boolleggers jcould have claimed they were trans I porting their own liquor for personal use and it would have been difficult to supply proof to the contrary |