The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-02-13
THE WEBB BILL
Threatened With Indefinite Delay on
a Technically il Not Defeats
ReintrOduced i'm the House Of Rep
rcsentatives-Is Endorsed by d
Viva XOce Vote.

When the Webb bill was endorsed
! in the Senate of the United States
on Monday there was discovered a
| lechnicalty in the bill which
| threatened its delay il not defeat,
| but on its return to the House the
lechnicality was removed and the
bill was re-passed by significant
majority. The bill as passed by the
| Senate was in its provisions with
| the House measure, buI when ii was
substituted for the kenyOn-Shep-
pard bill in the Senate the number
of the Senate will was allowed to-
remain on the passed bill.
This, according to House Parlla-
mentarian Crisp, made the measure
an entirely new one so far as The
House is concerned.
| The bill as passed will go TO the
President for his approval which IS
certain.
The Picayune in commenting on
, tht ", Db Glll says:
4 Ie ", ID bill, which supplanted
,he kenyon-Sheppard bill to divest
intoxicating liquors of their inter
state commerce character in certain
cases, did not, as was anticipated
before it passed the Senate Monday,
arouse the antagOnism Of the local
liquor dealers. The bill prohibits
the shipment or transportation OF
spurious, vinous, matted, fcrmented
or intoxicating liquors of any kind
from one State or territory to an
other and prohibits receiving or
holding or selling of liquor trans
ported in violation of State or ter
ritorial laws.
The Concensus of opinion among
local dealers is that it will annihI-
late the blind tiger and bootlegging
;, elements from the liquor business to
+, certain extent, but that in some
instances it will not do that.
:. .'The Webb bill will in no way re-
strict interstate traffic in liquor, ex-
cept when it is known to be used
for illegal purposes" said a repre-
sentative of a large liquOr-selllng
house yesterday. "And to do away
: with the blind tiger will mean more
J vigilance OIL the part of citizens IN
whose territory it is unlawful, ALL
! as one dealer is said to have very
y deftly expressed it, the consumer
: will. if not furnished with an ade-
d quate supply or can not get it quick
enough in dry communities, be apt
to vote the arid region wet again."
1T will simply mean reversal OF
direction of the flow," was the la
comic opinion of another large deal.
e er. Heretofore the liquor deafel
could indulge in interstate traffic
$ regardless of the laws of the land II
II the dry territory, but now, if the Law
? goes into effect, that business los
i BY one wholesaler will go to th'
maiI-order houses and then back tt
the consumer, but just how the bill
S will decrease trade | am unable t.
{ fathom. There are very few whole
q sale dealers in New Orleans VIII
: make large shipments of liquor int
a dry States. Every honorable liquo
l. man is in favor of doing away will
j the blind tiger, and that phase Q
II the bill did not meet with Opposl
{. ton, In fact, the only reason the bll
u was opposed by local liquor me
q was because the national Organza
u ton is opposed to any measure Q
= legislation which even looks a
II though it might harm the liquo
e traffic, and, as liquor men who wan
IS our business to prosper, it is natur;
al that we do all we can to defeat sue
/ measures"
is Il have found very little objectio
w on the part of large wholesal
nj houses to the BILL" said membe
of the national organization yesteI
day. in fact, there is only one OF
lection. and that is when hous
receives a money order or regl:
= tered letter for a certain amount {
:: liquor he is to a certain extent obi
- gated to deliver the goods"
no The greater part of the mail ord
all business is done by express and u
nt express companies are anticipatlI
H. q large increase in smaller packag
fy of liquor.
Members of the Antisaloon Leag
,f- and those opposed to the measu
tb say that the bill will not only
n away with blind tigers and 9th
1st illicit forms of the sale of liquor b
nv will greatly decrease the amount
M LIQUOR consumer.