The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-12
ENGAGE IN HEATED cONTRoVER sY ON FLOOR OF HOUSE OVER
 PROHIBITION QUESTION
DEMONSTRATION A NOISY ONE
Prohibition Adherents Take Up the Applause from Galleries and corri dors-Heated Argument Fellows h. troduction of Resolution.

Washington, Dec Shattering
 rules of tue House of Representatives,
 champions of prohibition who packed
 the galleries late today, broke into re- peated outbursts of applause and shouted as Representative Richmond i Pearson Hobson of Alabama, pleaded for a resolution which would submit
 a constitutional prohibition amend
 ment to the states
 ! The extraordinary demonstration continued unrestrained for many min utes, as Mir lHobson proceeded dra-
 maticaily to discuss the prohibition question and was not checked until ! Mir. Hobson had drawn into contro- versy his colleague, Representative Un- 1 derwoOd, who new is engaged with him
 in race for the United States seD-
 atorship from Alabama. The injec. tion of personal politics into the sit
 nation brought the majority leader
 to his feet with a reply to MT Hobsor,
 and this precipitated applause from l1he members on the floor
 ! Republican Leader Mann at this
 point demanded that the rules Of the
 House be observed and Representative iMoon of Tennessee, who was in the chair, admonished the spectators, Quiet was restored temporarily after Ia voice from the gallery shouted: 1 Were American citizens"
 In the course of his speech Mir ,Hobson had said:
 We ought to have our party under
 stand now while the war Is one that Lit never was intended for an alliance
 with the liquor interests. Yet thet,
 is a great Democrat, a great Alabama milan who is present today who recent | ly announced-at least, that is the wa , ] I read in the reports-that if prohibi- ton continues to be injected into Democratic politics, either prohibition
 would be ground to death or the Dem-
 ocratic party must die. l take sec Iond place to no man who loves his party, and let me tell you that if the Democratic party can only live by oin- i ing with the liquor interests to de-j
 bauch the American people, then m Gods name let it die
 Mr. Hobson fairly shouted these words as he reached the climax. With farms waving and shaking his heard ! .f...-..-4 1;+,,,.tt,- ;,, 4n,a Focae of 1nou1. bers who sat near him, including Mir. | Underwood, a few feet away. he drew
 from the packed galleries prolonged cheering and even the stamping Of
 feet. Before the tumult had subsid- l ed Representative Underwood, who
 had been quietly listening up to this time. rose in his place. Cheers and handclapping from Democratic and Re
 publican members on the floor greet
 ed him.
 "I wish to say to the gentleman from Alabama Mir. Underwood be
 gan. "that regret exceedingly that ill presenting the petition for the cause
 of prohibition to the House that he
 should have drawn into his speech a
 partial utterance of mine that misin'
 terprets my remarks. At some other l time and in the proper place will Interpret my own remarks
 l MT Hobson said that ne thought 1 he had been justified in his remarks and suggested that MT Underwood l be given all the time he wanted to in terpret his remarks to the House
 Cheers came from the gallery and Mir 1 Underwood again rose. . "I am not going to detain this House now" he said "The gentleman from
 Alabama has made partial statement
 that did not reflect my views. did
 not think that the floor of this House
 with public business before Us was the proper place for the gentleman ol myself to drag our personal differen ces. I OCCUPY the position of the lead CT of his party in this House and
 cannot, occupying that position, en
 gage in personal controversy win the gentleman from Alabama, as Il
 might work injury to the party.
 1 'fWhen the gentleman attempts tc linaict personal issue here he injuTe' This own cause in the estimation o many of his own people. l hope fol the balance of the time that We arc engaged in a personal political confic Ithat he will let it be fought out J line field of politics and let us devote
 our time here to discussion of public