Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-26
POLITICAL NEWS
FOR BUSY MEN
Representative Charles Bartlett
Declares Webb Law Fraud
and a FiaSCo."
Ru j 3. NENIN.

| BY J. 3. NEVIN.
Representative Charles Bartlett, who
is spending few days in Georgia be-
tween sessions of congress. rather in
clines to sniff at the suggestion that the
| Webb law, recently enacted with the
purpose of preventing shipments Of
liquor into dry" states from wet"
ones. will in any wise affect the present
prohibition status in Georgia or else
where.
He says he admires the pluck of Hon.
Seaborn Wright in his announced de-
! termination to see that the law oper-
ates to the destruction of the clubs and
near beer saloons in the state. but he
doubts that Mr. Wright ever will be able
to make good on his promises.
| Il voted against the Webb bill in con-
| gress because it is a fraud on its face,
and I was not willing to vote for
| fraud. Everybody agrees that 1t likely
is utterly unconstitutional, but even II
it were not it still would be fraud as
it stands. because 1t carries absolutely
no penalty for It's violation said Mr..
Bartlett, discussing the law.
Congress might just as we'll pass
law saying, Thou shalt not drink liq-
uor!' and stopping right there. If the
! law were not unconstitutional. ii would
| be absurd. in that it carried no penalty
for drinking liquor, even in the face of
the legislative Thou shalt not
ITO show the insincerity Of the law,
/ - 10 ha m af
penalty clause to it, but congress voted
that down. Congress didn't want to
put any teeth in the law-thats all
The law is a fraud, as l said before.
fake. a bunco, pure and simple! II
the prohibitionists are satisfied with it,
the anti prohibitionsts surely have no
need to worry"
Hon w. w Banks, the mayor of Tiff
| ton, is an Atlanta visitor
| Mr. Banks is one of the most pro-
gressive young men of his progressive
section. and has won the very great re-
spect and esteem of the people of Tiff
ton for the splendid administration of
their civic affairs he has provided.
| 1t is an interesting and significant
circumstance that more than a few OBJ
servant ones in the Second congress
sional district are predicting that May
| or Banks will enter the race for con-
gress against Mr. Roddenbery the in
cumbent, and that the race viii be
warm and doubtful one from the start.
| Mr.. Roddenbery is a good campaigner
but they do say "as how" Banks knows
Pthe game up one side and down the
other. and that he may be depended
upon always to make things most in
teresting and uncertain.
The report from Washington that DR.
! Charles w. Dabney, president OF the
| University of Cincinnati, is slated for
appointment as head of the United
| States weather bureau. to succeed VIII
| lis L. Moore. is of particular personal
| interest to a few prominent Georgians,
who. in the past, have been intimately
! associated with DR.. Dabney in educa-
tional work in the South.
Before going to Cincinnati DR. Dab
ney was president of the University OF
| Tennessee at Knoxville when he had
associated with him in the faculty DR..
|
Georgia School of Technology; DR.. An
! drew M SouIe, now president OF the
State Agricultural College at Athens,
and S w McCallie. state geologist OF
Georgia. There are also a number of
| former Tennessee students, now in
business in Atlanta, who were under
Dr. Dabney's tutelage
| When Senator Hoke Smith was sec
rotary of the interior under President
! Cleveland DR. Dabney was assistant
| secretary of agriculture, and the sena-
tor Is generally understood TO have ia
vcred DR.. Dabney's appointment as sec
rotary of agriculture under the present
administration.
Former Speaker Uncle Joe" Cannon
has been invited to attend drainage
congress in Savannah and has accepted
A drainage congress" in Savannah
is apt to be a damp affair, all right
but Uncle Joe" has the reputation Of
being one of the deadest game delegates
that ever attended convention any
where
Former President William Howard
Taft will conclude his visit to Augusta
Sunday and will leave that afternoon
for New Haven to assume his duties as
a member OF the faculty of Yale Uni
versity
He has been the citys cordially well
coined guest since March 5. arriving
there direct from the inauguration of