The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-01-20
Mr.. BRAHfY AND :
ANTI-JUG BILL
He Explains His Position on tn
Matter Which Is Now Pending
Before Congress.
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Washington. Jan. 1s.-Thsre seem
to be a good deal of misapprehenson
in Georgia and elsewhere in regard
to the Littleheld bill. and Represen
tatiye Brantley, OF Georgia, who is a
member Of the judiciary committee
now considering the bill. fears that
ais attitude in regard to the measure
is, misunderstood.
Under the present law. which this
measure seeks TO amend, liquor ship,
ments from one state into anothel
cannot be sold in the state of arrivd
except In compliance with the laws OF
sucn state This bill provides that
interstate shipments Of liquor shall
lose their interstate character and
cease to be protected By the inter
state commerce clause Of the constitu-
ton. Immediately upon crossing the
boundary line of a state.
A very grave constitutional ques
ton is raised in this connection as tn
whether congress can abdicate the
power over interstate commerce vest
ed in it by the constitution and tram
fer this poweTSp the individual states
The Hepburn olliver bill that was
before the judI siary committee dur.
ing the last cqbgress was substantial
" the game bG as the Littlefeld bill,
and the ju91eiary committee report.
ed It withe an amendment protecting
the right Of a citizen to receive liquor
for his own consumption, when ship.
ped 10 him from without the state.
legal Question Involved.
Mr.. Branuey's position on the oill
in the last congress as we'll as at this
time, has been in accord with that Of
a majority of the members of the jlI-
dietary committee.
The question involved, It must De
understood. is not that of prohibit
ton or temperance. but purely le-
gal point SO far as the state OF
Georgia is concerned the bill would
have little. If any, effect, provided
It was enacted into law. The wet
counties In the state would still BE-
enabled to supply the dry counties
with all the liquor they demanded Or
needed. whether II was shipped Into
the state from outside its border or
not The passage of the bill would
simply tend to give a monopoly OF
the whiskey bushes So In Georgia to
the wet counties, for then they would
have no opposition from the outside
Those WAC have given thought to
the laws regulating the liquor traf-
lie do not see the necessity for the
proposed legislation. Under the vii
son law, now on the statute books
there would be complete prohibition
throughout the United States to-day
il all the states would declare for IT..
The prohibitionists do not need any
more legislation from congress to ac-
eomplish this result. Clamor for the
l.ittleneld bill the epburn-Doliver
Dill anu plueF SliilliHA pAtiS NAA6AAAs'NN'
In the few prohibition states like
Maine. Iowa and Kansas. This ques,
ton plays large part in the local
politics OF these states AS illustra-
ting the local character of these bills
me fact has already been noted in ths
] Washington papers this week that last
I year Mr. Littleheld voted against his
own bill in the judiciary committee
The prohibition law was in issue in
8the Maine election last September
aMr. Littleaelds action had the effect
sof suppressing any further discuss.
ION until after the election.
MFR. Brantley Is also very much in
Earnest in urging ais bill also before
khe Judiciary committee to suppress
he Interstate c. o. d, business
liquor,
The supreme court of Georgia, Is
= well known, has held that in the
ase of c. o. d. shipments the place
delivery is the place of sale. and
III. Brantley insists that, since ali
ther parties are denied the right to
I'll liquor imported into state with
nt compliance with state laws, the
hpress companies should be denied
Ae right