Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-07-28


bill No. gs--.o limit the effect of the
regulations VI commerce between the
several States and with foreign countries
In certain cases. being under Considers
ton, Hon. Seth L. Milliken Of Maine
said
The only question before this House
now IL whether we wish % cure the evil
which has occurred on account OF the
| recent decision Of the Supreme Court
I did not suppose when the ball wa.
called up for consideration that We
should have so many arguments and 30
long discussion OF constitutional qaes
tious Involved and the right of Congress
TO correct this evil Bur that IL nothing
new since We have had history
when anything was TO he done some
body has always found some provision
OF something ia the organic law o! the
country standing IN the way Of doing go.
| More than two thousand years sgo,
~iisa great question was discussed be-
tween Detao.rhenes and .Esehines, the
latter bring undoubtedly at heart a srai
Tor to bis country. Demosrfienes said Of
him. ''iie quotss the written lag IL pre-
| vent the prosperity Of his Own country.
And 20 now to-day ia this advanced age
We find our fFleods on the other .lsle Of
the house, not all of them, but many OF
them, willing to shut down the gates
and stop the How Of run which the
decision Of the court has caused bat
there 4. this trouble and that trouble and
the other trouble % be- found la the Con
| .Iitntiou 81 the nited states TO prevent
ia being done.
| t,.Yt
| Constitution Of the nited States had Il
much greater strain upon il than can he
caused by any legislation that will be
framed By this congress in order to pre-
vent free rum everywhere. In this
country. aud | remember at that time
| that the same course was pursued, and
| that distinguished President Of the
| nited States said that certain States of
this country had no right to secede from
the MON, but he could find no warrant
| a the Constitution TO prevent them from
| doing 30. And 30 our friends Oh the
other side OF the House deplore in elO
queut terms the fact that the court has
opened the grog- shops, but they find In
the Constitution no opportunity for Il
| remedy. That il the lion they see in the
pathway TO every reform proposed in
| this House. The Constitution was framed
for no purpose OF being a stumbling
| block TO reform and healthy progress,
aud have faith that when great wrong
| is perpetrated the good sense of the peo-
| pie will find constitutional way TO
remedy il.
| II this House can not find any such
way, they will send Congress here
which will find il. Whether the recent
| decision was well founded or not | will
not discuss, for it has already been dis
cussed quite enough but the decision OF
the court has given an impetus to the
sale OF Intoxicating liquors in the United
states. IL has given encouragement TO
| the rumsellers 1t has given encourage
to the brewers it has started up many
| low groggery. The rumsellers have all
received from 'high authority encour-
agement to embark with new confidence
and zeal ia their harmful traffic again
and hence to meet this eXigency ] be-
| lieve 1t ia the duty of the Congress OF the
| { nited States To pass the Senate bill now
before u and thus set shining exam
pl,. the other way. We have an oppor-
tunity TO do 10 now, aud | have little
| doubt that il will be done.
| have no serious objection to the
| House substitute except that it takes in
80 many subjects that I fear it may not
| come out of conference with an agree
ment between the conicrees of the Two
| House,. and that therefore nothing will
be accomplished. In the meantime the
rum seller will be left free to force his
| injurious traffic without hinderance of
my Kind into states and communities
where the people do not want it ri
Maine, or Minnesota, or any other state
| does not want the free sale Of intoXicat- |
| ing liquors within their borders, how do
our States right friends on the other
4ide lind warrant in the Constitution to
force II upon them or If, like the
court. they find such warrant, what
clause of the Constitution prevents Con-
gress from applying remedy: Now,
the gentleman from Arkansas
Mr. Rogers and | am sorry he
| u not present, in discussing this question
asked why prohibition was not enforced
in the State of Maine Prohibition is
| enforced in Maine, especially in all the
| rural parts of the State. Indeed, it Is
everywhere there enforced better than
| election laws are enforced in the gentle
| mans State of Arkansas, where it is
worth mans life to stand up and be-
| come Republican candidate for Con
gress.
have no doubt that there may he
spots in that State where there are good
people. where popular sentiment is in
favor of law and order and where a man
can 20 to the polls aud vote freely and
have that vote fairly and honestly
counted But there are places, certainly, |
in his State where the public sentiment
does not sustain the election laws and
where they are disobeved. Now, every
where 10 the good State of Maine where
wc have had prohibitory laws for forty |
years or more, the law is enforced except
IN a few spots in the cities where vice
gathers. where people from foreign |
countries come, and where the public |
sentiment is not up to the standard
which we find in the fresh and healthy
country towns of the State; and if the
gentleman would abolish that law be
cause somebody evadeS it, or because
some people violate it. then on the same
principle he would abolish all law, be.
cause all laws are more or less violated.
He certainly would abolish the law
against murder and all the crimes in
the catalogue of crimes, in his own
state and everywhere.
1t i not to he said that we should not
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