The Mena weekly star., 1908-02-13
ID PROTECT DRY SPOTS
Anti-Liquor Advocates Before House Committee in the Interest of
 Their Bills.
HEARINGS TO CLOSE NEXT WEDNESDAY,
Request of Representative BarthoIdt to Extend Time Denied by the Com mittee--Favorabe Report Urged on Bills to Keep Liquor Shipments Out of Local Option Territory.


 Washington, Feb. 7.-Represents, tives of the prohibition party. the An ti-Saloon League of America, the Wo- mans Christian Temperance Union, and various Christian organizations appeared Thursday before the house committee on the judiciary to urge a favorable report on one or more of the bills introduced to protect dry local option districts from receipt of interstate as well as intrastate ship ments of liquor; that is, to bestow the right of border line confiscation of liquors shipped to destinations within prohibition districts.
 The Rev. s. E. Nicholson, legislative superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League spoke for this organization; Prof. Charles Scanlon, of Pittsburg. for the Presbyterian church; Finley Hendrickson of Cumberland. Md, for the prohibition party, and MT. Ray of Pennsylvania, for the United Presby- terian church. Present for the Wo- mans Christian Temperance Union were the national president. Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens; the national secre- tary, Miss Gordan and the national executive superintendent, Miss Ellis. Representative Bartholdt, of Missouri. chairman of the committee on public buildings and grounds, made an argu- ment against the proposed measures in behalf of the National German American Alliance.
 Representative Clayton of Alabama, a member of the committee, whose at titude supports federal protection of prohibition districts, questioned some of the prohibition speakers as to the legal right of the states to invoke fed. eral excise protection in the face of voluntary surrender to the govern nent of the very rights now sought to be re-obtained. It was agreed that briefs should be submitted on this point
 Representative Bartholdt asked that the decision of the committee to close its hearing February 12 be rescinded, in order to allow representatives of the California wine merchants to come to Washington and present their side of the case and also to give further hearing to the German-American Al liance. This request was denied Chairman Jenkins stating that 1t al. ready had been agreed that no fur ther hearings would be held other than on Friday. Saturday, Monday and Tuesday mornings. In asserting the complete failure of prohibition laws In Maine. Kansas and Iowa. Mir. Bar tholdt remarked: these things we know. but we do not know how pro hibition laws are going to operate ir the states of Georgia. and Alabama"
 Pardon me-" interrupted Chairman Jenkins, "but I heard an answer to that query. made by a southerner only this morning. He said the inaugura tion of prohibition laws in Alabama and Georgia will work like a charm This will mean that white gentleman can get drink whenever he wants 1t, but nigger can't get drop"
 Representative Clayton of Alabama and Brantley of Georgia, laughingly protested that this was not so.
 Surely, Mir. Chairman, your friend did not speak that way of Alabama" questioned Mir. Clayton.
 I'm quite positive he was not refer ring to Georgia" added Mr Brantley
 He said Alabama and he said Geor- gia," replied Mir. Jenkins; and even some of the prohibition representa- tives joined in the laughter that fol. lowed. 7x3 Al