Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-20
MANY VIEWS HEARD
Hearing on Hepburn Dolliver
Liquor Bill.
ORIGINAL PACKAGES
POLICE POWER OVER THIN
GIVEN TO THE STATES.
Representatives Of the Anti-Saloon
League and W. G. T. U. Speak
in Favor of Measure.

The House committee on the judiciary
today granted a hearing on the Hepburn
Dolliver bill, to give the state police power
over Original packages Of liquor shipped
into state for use. Many advocates and
opponents of the measure appeared before
the committee. and preliminary to the
argument 1t was arranged that each side
should have half an hour today and that
future hearings would be granted.
Representative Sulzer of New York indi-
ca ted that number Of citizens OF New
York city desired to be heard later. Repre-
sentatives Bartholdt Of Missouri, Sherley
of Kentucky and Scudder of New York also
announced that interested parties would
like to.be heard.
Robert Grain of Baltimore, general coun-
sci of the United States Brewers AssOcia-
ton, stated that the pending bill was the
most important measure presented to Con-
gress since the civil war. and he suggested
that the committee grant ample time for
its consideration.
Favored by Anti-Saloon League.
Rev. e. C. Dinwiddie. representing the
American Anti-Saloon League, spoke in
favor Of the measure. He said the legisia-
ton was necessary in view of the decisions
of the Supreme Court of the United States,
the effect Of which was to deny to the
states all power to control prohibit the
sale of intoxicating liquors transported
from one state to another while they re-
main in the original package.
Andrew Wilson, an attorney representing
the District of Columbia Anti-Saloon
League, also spoke in favor of the bill. Mr..
Wilson took up the constitutional question
involved, maintaining that congress had
ample authority to enact such law, should
it see fit.
Rev. DR.. James Cannon. jr., of Richmond
Va, also representing the Anti-Saioon
League, said the legislation was necessary
to the local option movement, which. he
said. was gaining great Roadway In the
south.
Mrs Ellis Speaks for the Bill.
Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis. legislative su.
perintendent of the National WOman's
Christian Temperance Union, pleaded fol
the passage of the bill, in behalf of the
mothers of the country. Mrs. Ellis said
she represented 100000 women organized
for temperance. She said that in many
localities where the people had abolished
the saloon by vote the lack of jurisdiction
by the states made 1t impossible to abolish
the liquor traffic, which was conducted In
Original packages" from other states.
c. J. Hexamer of Philadelphia, president
of the National German-American Alliance
an organization, he said, having half q
million members. spoke in opposition to
the bill. Mr.. Hexamer scored the prohibf-
ton movement of the country. IF ever the
will of the people," he said. has been ex-
pressed in an unmiStakable manner on any
question it certainly was in regard to pro-
hibition-a fallacy to which the efficacy OF
the interstate commerce law is now to be
sacrificed
Attorney Gustav I. Voss of New York
city. also representing the National Ger
man-American Alliance. and Karl A. NJ
Scholtz of Baltimore, both opposed the bill
on the ground that 1t was an unnecessary
interference with the liberties of the people
by the federal authority.