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."
BY J. 9. NEVlN.

BY J. 9. NEVlN.
Representative Charles Bartlett, who
is spending a few days in Georgia be-
tween sessions Of congress, rather in
ciines 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 becauseit is a fraud on its face,
and / was not willing to vote for
fraud Everybody agrees that it likely
is utterly unconstitutional, but even II
1t were not, it still would be fraud as
II stands. because 1t carries absolutely
no penalty for it's violation" said Mr..
| Bartlett, discussing the law.
Congress might Just as well pass
law saying, Thou shalt not drink liq-
uor! ana stopping right there. II 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,
! it was proposed In the house to affix
penalty clause to II, but congress voted
that down Congress didn't want TO
put any teeth in the law-that's all.
The law is fraud, as l said before.
a fake. a bunco, pure and simple! If
the prohibitionists are satisfied with it,
the anti prohibitlonists surely have no
need to worry"
Hon. w. w. Banks, the mayor of Tlf-
| 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 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 will be a
warm and doubtful one from the start
Mr.. Roddenbery is a good campaigner
| but they do say "as how" Banks knows
| a.. - -.
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 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 DIR.
X. @. Matheson, now president Of the
Georgia School OF Technology; DR.. An
drew NJ Soule, now president of the
State Agricultural College at Athens,
and S w. McCslue. state geologist of
Georgia There are also a number If
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 DIR. Dabney was assistant
secretary of agriculture, and the sena-
tor Is generally understood to have ia
vored 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 a 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 5
a member of the faculty Of Yale Uni