A BILL to limit the effect of the regulation of commerce between the several States and with foreign countries in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all fermented, distilled, or other intoxicating liquors or liquids transported into any State or Territory for delivery therein, or remaining therein for use, consumption, sale, or storage therein, shall, upon arrival within the boundary of such State or Territory, before and after delivery, be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory enacted in the exercise of its police powers to the same extent and in the same manner as though such liquids or liquors had been produced in such State or Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being intoduced therein in original packages or otherwise. SEC. 2. That all corporations and persons engaged in interstate commerce shall, as to any shipment or transportation of fermented, distilled, or other intoxicating liquors or liquids, be subject to all laws and police regulations with reference to such liquors or liquids, or the shipment or the transportation thereof, of the State in which the place of destination is situated, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of such liquors or liquids being introduced therein in original packages or otherwise; but nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize a State to control or in any wise interfere with the transportation of liquors intended for shipment entirely through such a State and not intended for delivery therein. [H. R. 13655, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session,] A BILE to limit the effect of the regulation of commerce between the several States and Territories in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the interstate-commerce character of all shipments of intoxicating liquors, including ale, wine, and beer, from one State or Territory into another State or Territory shall terminate immediately upon their arrival within the boundary of the State or Territory in which the place of destination is situated and before the delivery of said liquors to the consignee, and said liquors and all corporations and persons engaged in such shipment shall then become subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory enacted in the exercise of its police powers to the same extent and in the same manner as though such liquors had been produced in such State or Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original packages or otherwise: Provided, That shipments of such liquors entirely through a State or 3 Territory and not intended for delivery therein shall not be subject to the provisions of this act, nor shall this act authorize the infringement of the right of common carriers to continuously transport such merchandise from without such State to a station therein. SEC. 2. That in all such shipments to be paid for on delivery commonly called C. O. D. shipments the sale shall be held to be made at the place of destination, or where the money is paid or the goods delivered. [H. R. 13856, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session.] A BILL to prohibit express companies and other common carriers from importing from foreign countries into certain localities of the United States and from transporting from one State into certain localities of another State intoxicating liquors when carried to be delivered with the charge to collect on delivery. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That express companies and other common carriers are prohibited from importing into the United States from any foreign country and from transporting into one State from another State any spirituous, malt, or vinous liquors forbidden by the laws or police regulations of a State to be sold therein, or prohibited by law to be sold in the county or municipality whither they are transported, when such spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors so imported into the United States or so transported into such State, county, or city are carried collect on delivery, or in any manner so that the carrier thereof is charged with the duty of collecting money in payment for the same or of doing any other act as agent for the seller necessary to complete or perfect the sale. SEC. 2. That any express company or other common carrier which shall violate the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be subject to a fine of five hundred dollars for each offense committed. Any agent of any express company or common carrier who shall, in violation of the provisions of this act, deliver to any person in any such State or community as is described above any of the said articles carried in the manner herein forbidden shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense or to imprisonment for not less than ten nor more than sixty days, or to both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 3. That this act shall go into effect upon and after the date of its passage. [H. R. 16479, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session.] A BILL to make spirituous, malt, vinous, and intoxicating liquors of all kinds, in interstate commerce, a special class in such commerce, and to regulate in certain cases the transportation and sale thereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That spirituous, malt, vinous, and intoxicating liquors of all kinds, when a part of interstate commerce, shall be a special class in such commerce, and the transportation and sale thereof shall be specially subject to the control and direction of Congress, and that any railroad company, express company, or other |