PROVISIONS OF THE LIQUOR LAW. WEBB Carriers Prohibited to Deliver to Fic titious Persons or Collect Price. In view of the interest in statutory enactment to carry out the force of the prohibition amendmnet in Ore gon, the following text of the Webb law and other Federal legislation governing interstate shipments.of in toxicants is pertinent and worth per usal by those interested in prospec tive legislation affecting the liquor traffic. In view of the fact that the Oregon amendment does not prohib it distribution, it will be legal, in the absence of further enactments, for in terstate carriers to deliver intoxicants in Oregon to individuals for person al use and to druggists and physicians to despense by perscription: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unit ed States of America in Congress as sembled: That the shipment or transporta tion in any manner or by and means whatsoever of any spiritous, vinous, malted, fermented or other intoxicat ing liquor of any kind, including beer, ale or wine, from one state, territory or district of the United States, or place non-contiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, into any other state, territory or district in the United States, or place non-contigu ous to but subject to jurisdiction thereof, or from any foreign country into any state, territory or district of the United States, or place non-con tiguous to but subject to the jurisdic tion thereof, which said spiritous, vinous, malted, fermented or other in toxicating liquor is intended to be re ceived, possessed, sold or in any man ner used, either in the-original pack age or otherwise, in violation of any law of such state, territory or dis trict of the United States, or place non-contiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, enacted in the exercise of the police powers of such state, territory or district of the Unit ed States, or place non-contiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof is hereby prohibited. Section 238. (Interstate shipment of intoxicating liquors; delivery of to be made only to bona fide consignee.) Any officer, agent or imploye of any railroad company, express company or other common carrier who shall knowingly deliver or cause to be de livered to any person other than the person to whom it has been consign ed, unless upon writtSn order in each instance of the bona fide consignee, or any fictious person, or any person under a fictitious name, any spiritous, vinous, malted, fermented or other intoxicating liquor of any kind which has been shipped from one state, ter ritory or district of the United States, or place non-contiguous to but sub ject to the jurisdiction thereof, into any other state, territory or district of the United States, or place non contiguous to but subject to the juris diction thereof, or from any foreign country into any state, territory, or district of the United Stateb, or place non-contiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, shall be fined not i more than five thousand dollars, or j imprisoned not more than two years, or both. (35 Stat. L. 1136.) Section 239, (Common carriers, etc., not to collect purchase price of inter state shipment of intoxicating liqu ors.) Any railroad company, express company, or other common carrier or any other person who, in connection with the transportation of any spirit ous, vinous malted, fermented or other intoxicating liquor of any kind from one state, territory or district of the United States, or place non-con tiguous to but subject to the jurisdic tion thereof, into any other state, ter ritory or district of the United States, or place non-continguous to but sub ject to the jurisdiction thereof, or from any foreign country into any State, territory or district of the Unit ed States, or place non-contiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof before, on or after delivery from con signee, or from any other person, or shall in any manner act as the agent of the buyer or seller of any such liquor, for the purpose of buying or selling or completing the sale thereof, saving only in the actual transporta tion and delivery of the same, shall be fined not more th n five thousand dollars. (35 Stat. L. 1136.) 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(Packages containing intoxicating liquors shipped in inter state commerce to be marked as such) Whoever shall knowingly ship or caused to be shipped from one state, ( or other intoxicating liquor of any »r mstnc »*"■ United J kind, unless -........... such ~~;r package be so , label- . territory er district 1 u of * the place non contiguous to but ed on the outside cover as to plainly States, or , iurisdiction thereof, subject to the the jurisdiction thereof, |n- In -how the name of the consigner, the to any other State, territory or dis nature of its contents and the quan trict of the United States, or place tity contained therein, shall be fined non-contiguous to but subject to the not more than five thousand dollars; jurisdiction thereof, or from any for and such liquor shall be forfeited to eign country into any state or terri the United States and may be seized tory or district of the Lnited States, and condemned by like proceedings cr place non-contiguous to but sub as those provided by law for the seiz ure and forfeiture of property import ject to the jurisdiction thereof, any ed into the United States contrary to package of or package containing anj 9pritotss, vinous, malted, fermented * law. (36 Stat.L, 137 ) The conditions which are now oper ating toward an improvement in trade and commerce are conditions which have worked a temporary suspension of the Underwood-Simmons tariff law.The change in conditions could be foreseen as approaching from the be ginning of the war in Europe, contin gent only upon the war proving to be one of considerable duration. The first effect of the war, in reducing both imports and exports, was felt in nearly all lines of business but by look ing beyond the immediate paralysis ! Sai 1 Francisco Portland Branch, 27-29 North Front Street it was possible to see the early com ing of the time when, should the war continue, the excess of exports over imports, with two of the largest war ring nations, Germany and Austria, among the heaviest exporters of good to this country, and unable to get their wares into this market, and France and England unable to main tain their output, the balance of trade in our favor must grow rapidly and steadily. It is to be seen, also, that owing to the falling off in many lines of European merchandise which had, 1 When a city sportsman gets on his $150 worth of toggery it may be that a great sensative rabbit dies of fright, American missionaircs have con cluded that they can not wait for peace in Mexico if they expect to do j any more work there. We see by the Geographic Maga- I line—a delightful publication, which only requires you to look at the pic- rican missionaries are tures—that the Hungarian mail peas- ants wear disided skirts which they quit Turkey it will I be j ___ __ plenty of work for then ca|| trousers—offering a suggestion of . .___ Z A j1 diffcrentatiou. for some m pnths before the war com menced, be, tn pouring into ovr mar kets and So Uth American marfrets in steadily incr tasing quantities, manu facturers in t be United States could, in many lines,, increase the voluste of their product, employ more labor, buy more supplies, . and release more cash in a great mai iy way». 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