The Washington herald., 1907-02-14
WEBER BILL FIGHT At HAND
AUTHORIZATION People to Wait on
the Committee.
Protest Petitions Filed-RePreSenta
rails Bearing 5000 Names.

Miss Phoebe Cousins will be one of the
most urgent speakers before the District
Committee of the House to-day against
a favorable report on the Weber bill,
prohibiting the sale Of liquor in the Dis
trict.
She will be one of a committee that
will appear before the committee 10 an
swer the arguments to be made by the
members OF the temperance organizations
that will participate in the demonstration
to be made at the Capitol to-day. The
committee Of which she is a member
represents the Personal Liberty League,
which is working hard 70 Offset the in
huence brought by the temperance organ
zations
Representative BarthoIdt. of Missouri.
yesterday sent TO Chairman Babcock' s
room a box containing about a mile OF
memorials 10 Congress. protesting against
the passage Of the Weber bill. or any
other bill prohibiting the sale Of liquor
in the District. These memorials will be
formally presented to-day when the pub
lie hearing is opened. They contain the
names of almost 5000 adult citizens Of the
District and the members Of the Personal
Liberty League state that they were Sc
cured in three days. and that had more
time been permitted they could have Sc
cured $4,000 such names. All the signers
are bona fide residents Of the District.
and they protest vehemently against the
proposed prohibitory move.
These people who have signed these
memorials" said Congressman Bartholdt,
ARE bona fde residents of the District.
and they certainly are entitled to consld-
Grafton, and / will formally present their
petition TO the District Committee"
Among those who viii appear before the
committee to-day TO protest against the
passage OF the Webber bin will be ex-
Senator Thurston, Simon Wolf. Charles
". Darr, a member Of the Knights Of
Columbus and superintendent Of the ST
Pauls Sunday school; T = Haltigan. edi-
tor Of the National Hibernian: Il. VoeIck-
ner, president Of the twenty-three allied
German societies of the District; President
J. H. BrinlIman and Secretary Samuel
De Nedrey, OF the Central Labor Union
and a number Of others.
A well attended meeting OF the Re
tail Liquor Dealers Association was
held yesterday Afternoon in AriOn Hall
and at this meeting a committee of
two. consisting of J. c. Leonard, presi-
dent Of the organization, and Hugh F.
Harvey, chairman Of the association's
committee on licenses, was appointed
TO wait on the House committee at the
hearing this morning.
1t was said yesterday t.. a protest
would DO
Of a delegation in the Capitol. on the
ground that it is "a violation Of a Capt.
tOl rule forbidding any demonstrations
This is a survival of the rule made
when the Continental army soldiers
threatened to lay siege to the law
makers if they did not pay the army
forthwith and Capt Megrew. Of the
Capitol police SAYS ii does not affect
this demonstration.
The argument was made by members of
the Personal Liberty League that when
CoXey's army of unemployed marched
here 10 petition Congress to enact legis-
lation for them, they were denied per-
mission to enter the Capitol, and that, as
that was a peaceable demonstration. the
temperance people should be given no
privilege denied the famous army of I'M
employed
Representative Bdrtholdt stated last
night that the matter had been called TO
his attention. but he said he does not be-
lieve there would be any protest.
I think the right of petition should be
unabridged. and I can see no harm in per-
hitting them 10 come into the Capitol in
a body II they wish TO do So he said. Il
had a conference with the Speaker and
it was decided that no objection would
be offered"
Capt. Megrew, of the Capitol police,
says that so long as the members Of the
invading host conduct themselves with
they viii not be mOlested.
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