COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ON THE BILL (S. 6264) TO REGULATE THE SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1908 8-35455 REGULATION OF SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Washington, D.C., May 8, 1908. The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m. Present: Senators Gallinger (chairman), Dillingham, Scott, Long, Burkett, Carter, Martin, and Johnston. The following bill was before the committee for consideration: A BILL (S. 6264) To regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no person, company, copartnership, association, club, or corporation shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale, keep for sale, traffic in, barter, exchange for goods, or give away, in the District of Columbia, any intoxicating liquors, except as hereinafter provided; but this act shall not apply to sales made by any person under and by virtue of an order or decree of any court in the District of Columbia requiring him to sell personal property. Wherever the term "intoxicating liquors" is used in this act it shall be deemed to include whisky, brandy, gin, wine, cordials, rum, ale, porter, beer, hard or fermented cider, and all other fermented, distilled spirituous, vinous, and malt liquors, and every mixture of liquors which shall contain more than two per centum, by weight, of alcohol, and any mixture of liquor which shall contain less than two per centum of alcohol if the same shall be intoxicating. SEC. 2. That there shall be, and is hereby, constituted an excise board for the District of Columbia, which shall be composed of the judge of the juvenile court, the health officer, and one of the inspectors of police who shall be designated by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, which board shall consider and act upon all applications for license to sell intoxicating liquors, and the action of said board shall be final and conclusive; but it shall not be mandatory upon said board to grant a license for any of the purposes specified in this act. On the granting by said board of a license to sell intoxicating liquors the assessor shall issue a license to the applicant. Said board shall make such rules and regulations for carrying into effect this act as it may deem requisite and proper. It shall make an annual report to Congress, setting forth the number of applications for license both favorably and unfavorably acted on, the number of persons convicted for violation of this statute, and the amount of fines collected and uncollected; and it shall have power to issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witness before it, and such 3 |