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ELECTION LAWS
ARE SIMPLIFIED
BY THESE BILLS
Precinct Officers Are Divided
Into Watches and $allots
Must Be Counted Every
Two Hours
SPEAKER FINISHES
NEW PRIMARY LAW
Defects in Present Statute
Are Remedied to Meet the
Popular Demands
GEORGE A. VAN SMYTH
CAIL BUREAU,
SACRAMENTO HOTEL,
Sacramento, February 3.
A perfect antidote for all boss curb
ing , and anti-repealing legislation is
provided by a bill introduced today by
Senator and Deputy Labor Commis
sioner Lyon of Los Angeles.
The bill provides for dividing pre
cinct election officers into two -watches.
After taking ballots for two hours,
the first watch is to be relieved for
two hours.
On their -watch helo-w they are to
count and tally the ballots received by
them.
At the end of two hours the first
■watch and its ballot box go on the
job again, while the second watch
counts the ballots it has received and
brings the tally sheet down to the
hour.
Wh*»rt the polls rfofce at fi o'clock in
the evening , , only a few ballots ■will
rrmain to be counted and tallied. The
customary delay in election returns
■will be obviated.
BOSSES WOULD BE TIPPED
Several hours before the polls close
every boss and ward heeler represented
on the election board would know just
how the candidates stand and how
many votes, good and bad, are required
to pull them through. As a time and
■worry saver the Lyons bill has it on
nny election measure ever introduced
in the California legislature.
Speaker Toung has completed and in
troduced the bill by which he intends
to correct the evils of the primary
election system.
He adopts all of the three suggested
methods for preventing a recurrence
of the republican-progressive mixup of
1912.
He provides for recognition of po
litical parties which cast 3 per cent of
the vote at the. last preceding Novem
ber election. A second feature is th.c
registration method and finally the 3
per cent petition method.
NEW PARTY REQUIREMENTS
The registration method for the or
ganization of a new party involves
nothing more than certification by the,
several county clerks lh.at electors .j
'Cjual in number to 3 per of the
whole vote cast at the preceding No
vember electiop have registered as pro
gressives or under any other partisan
designation desired to be recognized.
The Young bill changes the date of
the primary election from the first
Tuesday In September to the last Tues
day in August. It does not wipe out
the nominating petitions, but it does
reduce the minimum of signatures
necessary to half of 1 per cent of the
party vote.
It does away with the county conven
tions and the election of delegates and
provides for the direct election of mem
bers of county central committees by
supervisorial or assembly districts on
an apportionment based on population.
« OXVEXTIOX REGULATIONS
It eliminates the holdover senator
from state conventions and substitutes
delegates elected in holdover senatorial
districts.
The most important change in the
presidential primary law is the elimina
tion of the presidential preference pro
visions and the restriction of the pri
mary vote to delegates to national con
ventions.
Second only to that provision is the
one limiting participation in the presi
dential primary election to those regis
tered subsequent to January 1 of the
presidential year.
GOVERNOR JOHNSON
SIGNS FIRST BILLS
BACRAJOSNTO, Feb. 3.—Governor
Hiram W. Johnson today signed four
bills, the first sent to him by the 1913
legislature.
AH of them were appropriation meas
ures having , to do with special matters
taken up at the session.
Senate bill 251, appropriating $10,000
for the distribution of free school-
books; senate bill 37, appropriating
$6,000 for the senate contingent ex
f«>nscs.
.Senate bill 53 appropriated $500 only
lor an additional stenographer in the
governor's office and assembly bill 561
appropriates $7,?49.60 to pay the cost of
printing and distributing copies of con
stitutional amendments adopted prior
to the end of 1312.
MOTHERS' CLUB MEETING
,nl Dispatcli to Tbo Call)
SAUSALITO, Feb. ?,. —The Mothers'
club of this place will meet Thursday
evening to hear a ]e< ture by Mis?
Sarah l>. Ilamlin of San Francisco on
India. Its Mosques ami Temples , ." It
i.s to be an open meeting, and every
mother in Sausalito has been invited
to attend. Mrs. Robert B. Williams,
the president, will preside, assisted by
Mr:- C. A. Gillette, secretary.
SPECIAL LENTEN SERVICES
The Brotherhood of St. Andrew will
hold special service* during Lent from
1_• ; . p. m. to lu:-i:. p. m. daily on the
second floor of the Merchant* , Ex
change building. The oj'fiiinK service
will be on Ash Wednesday, February ."•.
The public fa invited, especially men,
hs the object i.s to cri\e. the busy men
opportunity to iitf-nd service without
g the business renter of the cit>.
TWO HUNTERS ARRESTED
iSi-'mlhl r»is-p«t.-li Iβ The Tmlli
FAIRFAX, Feb. 8.- -Deputy sheriff
t's.ar Binejr&fcd today arrested Rice
Aliegrini and Noto Allegrini for vio
lating the state law prohibiting
the shooting of nongnme birds. Both
iiipn liad several ro!'in?= foneealeil in
liv.ii- cloiblng. They irere ttned by
justice uf the Peace WUlten Mayee.
CITY TAKES OVER HOSPITAL
gL i new detention h<'.-pital in the
r<{ the temporary city ha]] wax
formally turned over to health de
partment yesterday afternoon, after the
of the patient* had been trans-
I from the temporary wooden
ire in Jefferson square at Golden
(ji-ic iivonuc and Hough street.
"BON VOYAGE" GIVEN
Sendoff for W. B. Webster
IV. B. Webster as others sec him.
Directors of Commercial Club Hosts
To Departing Associate
Our goal friend Webster Is going away
To risit strange lands for many a day.
A member of our "'Flying Legions''
known already in various regions.
All along this coast he's gone.
Waking things up and pushing: them on.
He's worked so hard for our city, jou know,
Tbat he really feels he lias to bo
To visit the strange lands across il>e sea,
Wber» they know not the. "League of H'.-mc In
dustrie."
As president of the Camera club
He'll show the foreigners be"s no dub.
Why. the work he says lie's going to <!o
Will befit what he does for Montague.
For he hopes to tell of P. P. I. K.
In eTery city he will see.
Across the ocean to fair Japan
He'll carry the news of the full dinner can.
Hongkong and Manila. Canton anil Shanghai
Will be as sorry as we are when he says go&dby.
For it always is a busy place
Whererer Webster shows his face.
England and Spain will be all the same
To this great hustler of national fame.
And when he i> through this world round trip
Let's all go meet him at tlie ferry slip.
In tribute to his unceasing efforts to
boost the trade of San Francisco and
the state in general, a luncheon was
given for W. B. Webster yesterday by
the board of directors of the Commer
cial club. The reception and publicity
committee, of which Mr. Webster is
a member, acted as special hosts.
The party came as a surprise to the
well known merchant on the eve of
his departure for a trip around the
world. He made it known to his fel
low workers some days ago that he
had engaged passage on the steam
ship Cleveland and that he intended
to visit the four corners of the earth,
partly in seardh of recreation and
pleasure, but mostly for business.
Business and Mr. Webster are very
rarely apart. Tn the reconstruction
period of San Francisco he has been
most indefatigable in placing the re
sources 'of the community above the
competitive approach of other markets.
He Is a member of the "Flying Legion,"
and has visited every city and hamlet
on the coast, bearing San Francisco's
good wishes and opening up new
branches of trade through the avenues
TRANSBAY CITIES SEEK
CONTROL OF WATER FRONT
Berkeley and Alameda Press
Claims, but Matter Goes
Over Indefinitely
SACRAMENTO. Feb. 3.—Considering
the several cities now asking that con
trol by their respective harbor fronts
be turned over to them by the state,
the assembly committee on commerce
and navigation decided today to post
pone action on them all until after
the recess.
Representatives of Alameda and
Berkeley appeared before the commit
tee to urge action on bills granting
them control of their water fronts,
but were asked to wait until n penoml
public hearing could bo granted all
claimants.
City Attorney St. Sure and Assem
blyman Alfred Morpen.«tern of Alameda
presented the claims of that city f6r
the control of its 10 miles of watT
front and tide lands, as did also Sen
ator J. H. Hans of Fruitvalf.
A serious sanitary condition con
fronted the city, they said, because of
lark of control orer hundreds of squat
ters who lived under unhealthy sur
rounriiiifCf? in houseboats anchored on
the shallow tidelands.
SONG PROGRAM PREPARED
Coflnjre Rider-Kelsey and
f'unningham, who •will appear in this
city the Greenbaum manage
m*nt ;it the Scottish Rite auditorium
thin evening:, will present a program
that Is replete with song gems, includ
ing , duet* am] f-<->los. Tho appear
ance of tho combination will take plare
Thursday night, at which time an en
tirely new program will hu given.
Tickets for the eOPcart are *m sain at
Sherman, ''lay & t'o.'s and Kuhler &.
Chase's music stoj •
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4; 1913.
of reciprocity. He was one of the or
ganizers of the Home Industry league,
and one of the most active campaign
ers in behalf of purchasing the home
product. He also found time to give
to art Jβ photography and he is presi
dent of the Camera club of this city.
Frederick J. Koster, vice president
of the Commercial club, presided at the
luncheon yesterday. In a short, grace
ful address, he pointed out the value
of a man like Mr. Webster to the com
merce of the district and in a short re
view told of what he had accomplished
for his community.
Mr. Webster responded briefly. He
said that lie had had been planning for
some time to take a whirl around the
globe. His journey, he said, would be
in a sense, a period of relaxation and
recreation, but he intended to let the
orient and the people of the European
continent know of the newly built city
on the Pacific and of the great expo
sition that will be opened to the world
in 1915.
Alexander Russell, a director of the
club, followed Mr. Webster, in express
ing the good wishes of all for a pleas
ant and instructive trip, and later the
members of the reception and publicity
committees started three cheers, in.
which everybody at the banquet joined.
The officers and members of com
mittees present at the luncheon com
prised:
Directors—Allen L. Chlckering (presidents
Vreclprirk J- Konter (tloi , pwaMest), Clarence
M. Oildle (secretary). Robert J. Tyson, T/>uis
Block. P. S. Teller. W. A. Starr. A. If. Dollar,
Alexander Russell, B. S. Hubbard and George
N. (TBrlcn.
Former directors —>r. IT. Robbins Jr., James
11. Harrnlr] aufl A. C. Ktiins.
Reception an<l publicity committee—Frederick
Whitton. Charloe H. Bain. Theodore V. Dredge,
A. S. Mangrum, Mas Schmidt, George 11. Ebejr
hanl. .T. B. Cbaco and W. B. Webster.
Rpception committee—W. B. Webster (chair
man >. C H. Mcforniick. J. G. Suttou. A. J.
F. W. Wolfe and J. B. MeCargar.
I'liblioity commit te'-—George H. Kberhard
(chairman i. g. Jones. Louis Honlfj, B. J.
Cooper, K. C. Stratford, J. H. VoorsaDjer and S.
P. Johnston.
SIX YEAR PRESIDENTIAL
TERM LOSES IN SENATE
Sanford Resolution Is Voted
Down When Party Lines
Are Drawn
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 3.— Tho Senate
held a 20 minute session at which a
few bills were introduced and then ad
journed until tomorrow morning, when
the final eeseioD will be held.
By a vot.? of 21 to 10, the senate re
fused to urjre the state's delegation in
the house of representatives to work
for the passage of the six year presi
dential term resolution now pending.
A resolution to that effect, intro
duced by Senator J. B. Sanford of
Ukiah. democratic national commit
teeman, was defeated by a strictly
party vote, ex. opt that Senator J. B.
f'assidy, republican, of San Francisco
voted with the democrats.
Among other measures introduced
wero the following:
By B^ban—Appropriating f3Q,OQQ far an armory
fur thp naval inHitia te be built on some wharf
in Sβ d Franriero.
By Bree£~~Appr«M4atiaM MB for th«- indus
trial horuo of mochttnir.il trade for thf Wind
and f<>r tbo California Institution Tit tbe deaf
and Mind, boib at Oakland.
From thf> committee on ni|ps--Nfaklng the *ot
rrnor state p.vposifiou commissioner, at no f-elerr
in rhafjr* of ussorabling all exhibits, and »npo- r
priatlng $100.1.00 annually for tho colleetlou aod
of each exhibits.
MILK COMBINE MEN GUILTY
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. ?,. —a ver
dict of guilty was returned tonight by
, the jury in tho district ctmrt against
tbe Minneapolis Milk company and A.
R. Rubake, president of the corpora
tion, charged with conspiracy to raise
Hie price, of milk. Indictments have
r.peu returned ap;iin.st sis other milk
■ unipunies on similar charges.
TRANSPORTATION
FOR EXPOSITION
MAY BE SOLVED
Bill Introduced by Senator
Boynton Authorizes Char
ter Cities to Amend
Organic Laws
CALX. BUREAU.
SACRAMENTO HOTEL.
Sacramento, February 3.
A solution of the transportation prob.
' lem confronting: the Panama-Pacific Ex
position company as the result of the
rejection of charter amendment No. 34,
is suggested by a constitutional amend
ment introduced today by Albert K.
Boynton, president pro tern of the sen
ate.
Ratification of the amendment would
do away with the farcical "approval of
charter amendments" by the legislature.
The measure provides that the electors !
of freehold charter cities may amend
their charters and make such amend
ments parts of their municipal organic
laws without reference to the legisla
ture. It further provides that charter
amendments may be submitted at gen
eral or special elections, regardless of
the existing inhibition against the sub
mission of such amendments oftener
than once in two years.
OPEXS WAY TO ACTION
The Boynton amendment, if passed,
will be submitted to the people at the
general election next year. If it be rati
fied the people of San Francisco may, if
they choose, adopt charter amendments j
providing for extensions by existing
transportation companies under the
terms of the original franchises.
They also may vote again upon the
question of indeterminate franchises, or
any other charter proposition that has
been voted upon within two years or
less.
It is contended, fairly enough, that
! the submission to the legislature of
charter amendments ratified by the peo
ple of a charter city is worse than
j farcical. The legislature has no power
I to change any proposition so submitted
to it. Its approval Is the merest mat
ter of empty form. Its exercise usually
involves expensive and vexatious , de
lays upon communities which have
adopted charter changes because they
were necessary and urgent.
For instance: Under existing law if
it were possible for the city of San
Francisco to hold a charter amendment
election next Juno, and every propo
sition submitted were ratified by the
electors, not one of them could be
come operative until after the legisla
ture met in 1915, unless it happened
that a special session were called in
the meantime.
CITIES GIVEN FREE HAND
Ratification of the Boynton amend- ,
ment would mean that the people of
chartered cities could change their or
ganic laws as they pleased and when
they pleased; that they could meet
emergencies in which the state at large
had no interest, without reference to
the rest of the state or its representa
tives.
The committee on rules of the senate
introduced by request today a measure
closely analagous to the bill proposed
recently by the city attorney of Kan
Francisco. It provides that a public
utility may offer its property to a
chartered community at a slated price
or agree to submit the question of price
to the railroad commission.
BRIDGE FIRM ASKS
TO DROP PIER DEAL
Head of Company, Worried by Divorce
Salt, Lay* Blame to Mis
take In Figures
The Thomson Bridge company, the
successful bidder for the construction
of pier 37, has asked the state board
of harbor commissioners for relief from
carrying out its contract on the ground
that the bid on which the contract
was awarded was not the one the com
pany intended to submit.
On account of mistakes made in their
figuring, the bridge company officials
say that they would lose money if they
carried out the contract. They ask
that the whole thing be called off and
their certified check for |27,000 be re
turned.
After a week's discussion of the mas
ter in executive session and confer
ences with the bridge company officials
and their attorney, the harbor board
has referred the matter to its attorney,
Daniel Ryan.
The bids were opened January 23.
There were five bidders. The Thom
son Bridge company's bid, $475,200, was
the lowest by about $80,000 and more
than $40,000 below the state engineer's
estimate. Two days later Otto 11.
Crossflcld, president of the Thomson
Bridge company, called on the commis
sioners with his attorney.
He explained that he had been sick
and worried over the suit for di\ - orce
brought by his wife and had been un
able to give his personal attention to
the figures on which the company's bid
was based and that three mistakes had
been made therein.
FURNITURE
of QUALITY
character of our stock is
a protest against the cheap
and tawdry in furniture.
The several styles in vogue are
generously represented in our ex
tensive exhibits, quality and de
pendability in woods, finish and
upholstering being absolutely as
sured to our patrons.
We solicit inquiry and inspection
for all furnishing requirements and
proffer the services of our depart
ment of Interior Decoration for the
intelligent treatment of thq res
idence or apartment.
Prices extremely moderate.
W. & J. SLOANE
216-228 SUTTER STREET
Pilot Commission Doomed By Bill
Harbor Board to Assume Duties
■».-■ —~ —i 1 ♦■
CAUL BUREAU, SACRAMENTO HOTEL, SACRAMENTO, Febrnarr 3.
The San Francisco pilot commission is wiped out by a series - of bills
introduced today by Senator Finn of San Francisco.
The relegation of the pilot commission bill is by indirection.
Senator Finn's bills impose the duties now performed by the com
mission and confer its powers upon the San Francisco harbor com
mission.
They provide that the harbor commission shall meet once in each
month as a pilot commission for the ports of San Francisco, Mare
island, Vallejo and Benicia. The pilot commission thus constituted is
authorized to issue annual pilot licenses and to revoke them for cause.
None of the bills provides in terms for the abolition of the pilot com
mission. The existing commission is to be put out of business by cut
ting off its income and depriving it of any affirmative functon.
ATTACK UPON R.D. DUKE
MEETS WITH OPPOSITION
Resolution to Investigate
Fish and Game Com
mission Gets Jolt
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 3.—Forewarn
ing- of a sharp attack upon his resolu
tion calling for an explanation by the
state fish and game commission of the
alleged political activity of its attor
ney, Robert D. Duke, caused Assem
blyman Harry Polsley to offer a sub
stitute couched in milder terms today.
Consideration of the adoption of the
substitute, however, was tabled by a
vote of 39 to 28.
Assemblyman W. & Killingsworth
of Vacaville, changed his vote from no
to aye and gave notice that he would
move reconsideration of the question
tomorrow.
Mr. Duke's alleged offense consisted
in his having spent state funds in or
ganizing the Great Fish and Game
Protective association.
Mr. Polsley defended his resolution
with the argument that no branch of
the state government should 'object
to a request from the legislature for
an accounting, or an objection of its
policies at any time, but met with op
position from members who said they
objectod to the presumption of alleged
misconduct on Attorney Duke's part.
The resolution came up as a special
order of business today after having
been reported out without recommend
ation by the committee on rules sev
eral days ago. The proposed substi
tute requested a "full accounting of
the moneys spent by Duke in traveling
about the state organizing the protec
tive association"; the reasons for the
increase in Mr. Duke's salary, and a
comparative statement of the over
head expenses of the commission dur
ing each of the three last years.
Assemblyman D. D. Bowman of
Santa Cruz made a spirited speech in
defense of the commission, saying that
if the protective association aided in
preserving the game, the commission
would be justified in spending money
on its organization.
DREAM RESTORES MAN'S
MEMORY, LOST TWO YEARS
Action of Stibconiucloue Mind Reveale
Former Identity of A. J. Farhar
v/ of Medford, Ore.
/V)AKLAND. Feb. 3.— Dreaming his
reaS name and address after two years
of mental blankness, "A. C Richards."
inmate of the county infirmary, is now
on the road to Medford, Ore., to take
his place again as A. J. Farhar. former/
county superintendent of education at
that place.
That the recesses of his subcon
scious mind gave up the secret during
his sleep is the theory advanced by
Superintendent Dr. C. A. Wills. Con
scious efforts to find his name and re
gain his memory of the past were
always baffled.
The case is regarded by Doctor Wills
as one of the strangest in the annals
of lost personality and as a remark
able exhibition of a dual consciousness.
As A. J. Farhar, now apparently on the
road to complete restoration as a nor
mal man. Doctor Wills has remarked
a considerable alteration in the phys
ical makeup of the patient formerly
known as A. C. Richards, inmate of the
mental ward.
RESOLUTIONS ARE ADOPTED
(Special Dispatch to Tbe Call)
VJSAL.IA, Feb. 3. —The Visalia board
of trade has adopted resolutions re
lating to the use and control of public
lands and has advanced the congress
of representatives from public lands
states to be held in Denver on Octo
ber 14, 1913. The object of the con
gress is to have the people under
stand pending regulations regarding
public lands. Nearly all western states
are to be represented at the congress.
I inunu I imerai Todaj-—Funeral serv
ices over the remains of A. H. L.issak,
who died Saturday, will be held at
Trinity church. Bush and Gough streets,
at 11 o'clock this morning.
LEGISLATURE FAVORS
EXCLUSION OF ASIATICS
Assembly Passes the Senate
Joint Resolution Favoring
Raker's Measure
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 3.—Asiatic ex
clusion received the approval of the
legislature today when the lower house
unanimously passed senate joint reso
lution No. 8. calling upon congress to
pass the bill introduced by Congress
man Raker excluding "Asiatic and
pauper" labor.
Charging Assemblyman Milton L.
Schmttt with an "unheard of breach of
parliamentary courtesy,"' Assemblyman
H. S. Benedict of Los Angeles, author
of the "discriminatory practices act,"
dissipated today the easy going ab
straction which usually pervades the
assembly chamber.
Mr. Schmitt had offered a motion for
the "rereferring to the judiciary com
mittee of Benedict's bill for the pr.e
ventfon of unfair competition, saying
that a number of his constituents "had
just notified him that they desired a
public hearing on the matter.
The bill was passed out of the judi
ciary committee, of which Benedict is
chairman, a week or more ago, with
the recommendation that it "do pass. , '
"This is unheard of," said Benedict.
"Never before have I seen a member
move the rerefefring of another mem
ber's bill without having taken up the
matter with the author."
Mr. Schmitt moved that the matter
be made a special order at business for
2 o'clock Monday. March 10. the day of
reassembling, and the motion carried.
Five bills calling for the repeal of
the municipal harbor control granted
two years ago to Oakland, Los Angeles,
Long Beach and San Diego were Intro
duced today by Assemblyman Milton L.
Schmitt of San Francisco.
BOOKED ON GRAVE CHARGE
David Newman, clerk at 23 Third
street, was booked on a complaint at
the city prison yesterday by Detectives
Redmond and Driscoll on accusations
filed by Miss Mabel Pomeroy. 25S Page
street, and Miss Mabel Tonce, 484 Fell
street.
The police are looking for one Harry
Goldstein, who will be charged with a
similar offense. Goldstein is believed
to be in Seattle.
Both girls say that Newman and
Goldstein attempted to assault them in
a beach resort.
After You Have Bought Your
Piano—What Then?
To know that the house of which they
have bought their piano or player-piano has
constantly in mind their welfare, the con
dition of their instrument and their continu
ous enjoyment of it, gives to most buyers a
deep feeling of satisfaction.
One most potent factor of our business is the
service extended to each and every purchaser. The
satisfaction of the buyer being paramount, no re
quest is too small, no demand too great to meet
the courteous and immediate response of our serv
ice department. This service is unique in the
piano industry. It is doubly so, because, to buy
ers of pianos, player-pianos and talking machines,
it is, for one year, absolutely free; just what you
have a right to expect and receive.
Not only for the exclusive character of service of
fered does our House merit your consideration. It is
worth your while, a duty to yourself, to investigate
our selling methods, our easy payment plan and
the quality of our Pianos and Player-Pianos before
your purchase is made. We know that you will
find here Pianos and Player-Pianos which, at their
prices, cannot be duplicated in durability, quality
and musical worth in the West. Every one is
made right and priced right—at identically the
same figures that you would pay, save for the ad
dition of Eastern freight, on the floors of their
manufacturers in New York, Boston or Chicago.
Your old piano taken in exchange at its full value.
Easy payments.
VICTOR TALKING MACHINES—SHEET MUSIC
TWO ENTRANCKS:
135-153 Kearny and 217-225 Suttcr Street
OAKLAND—SIO TWELFTH AND 1105 WASHINGTON
SAN JOSE— II 7 SOITII FIHST ST.
BUTLER MEASURE
WOULD WIPE OUT
BARS AND CLUBS
Also Prohibits the Sale of
Liquor on Holidays and
Restricts Business of
Hotels
CALL BUREAU.
SACRAMENTO HOTEL.
Sacramento. February 3.
Ttatification of a constitutional amend
ment and enactment of a companion bill,
introduced today by Senator Butler of
T-os Angeles, would wipe out all the
bars and two-thirds of the men's clubs
in California.
Butler's measures are not prohibition
legislation—never let it be said. They
merely are regrulatory, and as such they
will be approved by the carefully or
ganized public morals committee of the
senate. These are some of the things
thwy are designed to accomplish:
Inhibition of the "sale of intoxicant.-. In
quantities less than one pint.
licenses may be granted for the sale
of such intoxicants in quantities of one
pint or more in original packages with
unbroken seals, but may not be con
sumed on the premises where they are
sold.
HOLIDAY TRADE CURTAILED
No licensed vender of Intoxicants nor
licensed club may sell liquor in any
package on holidays, as defined by the
laws of California.
Hotels having IT> or more rooms and
more than 25 tables in their main din
ing rooms may serve liquors with regu
lar meals, to be consumed with those
meals, and not otherwise. No hotel may
sell liquors on holidays.
Licensed clubs. If they have 25 or
more tables In their main dining rooms,
may serve liquors with regular meals,
and not otherwise. However, such
liquors must be sold at wholesale prices
and without profit to the club.
Prescriptions written by licensed phy
sicians may be" filled by druggists, but
only once, and when filled they must be
marked cancelled.
PENALTIES ARE SEVERE
Infractions of the proposed laws are
to be punished as to first offenses by
fines of from $30 to $300. or imprison
ment from 5 to 90 days. Second convic
tion renders the offender's license void
and works automatically to prohibit its
renewal for a term of two years. In
every case sale and gift are made to
mean the same thing.
The private householder Is exempt
from the provisions of the proposed
laws, in that he may break the seals of
original packages and serve sociable
drinks to his friends in quantities of
less than one pint. Intoxicants so pur
veyed may be drunk on the premises of
the giver.
DECISION IS QUESTIONED
Tn a decision rendered by Justice
Murphey in the district court of appeal
yesterday it was held that Judge
Cabaniss erred in dismissing the cases
against John Platt, Frank Dunleavy,
Henry Freedman, A. Johnson and Jo
seph Smith, charged with conducting
poolrooms, on t'ne ground that the in
dictment brought against the de
fendants by District Attorney Charles
M. Fickert did not conform to the re
quirements of certain sections of the
penal code. Mr. Fickert declined to
amend the indictments when the cases
were called in the superior court.
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