Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-27
POLITICAL NEWS
FOR BUSY MEN
Representative Charles Bartlett
Declares Webb Law Fraud
and a FiaSc0."
BY J. q. NEVIN.

BY J. q. NEVIN.
Representative Charles Bartlett, who
is spending a 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
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-b beer saloons in the state. but he
doubts that Mr. Wright ever will be able
to make good on his promises
81 voted against the Webb bill in con-
gress because it is a fraud on its face,
and | was not willing to vote for
fraud. Everybody agrees that it likely
is utterly unconstitutional, but even Il
it were not, it still would be fraud as
it stands. because it carries absolutely
no penalty for its violation" said Mr.
Bartlett, discussing the law.
Congress might just as well pass
law saying. Thou shalt not drink liz
uor! and stopping right there. II the
law were not unconstitutional it 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 it, but congress voted
that down. Congress didn't want TO
put any teeth in the law-that's all
The law is fraud as ! said before,
fake. bunco. pure and simple. II
the prohibitionists are satisfied with 1t,
the anti prohibitionists 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 will be a
warm and doubtful one from the start.
Mr.. Roddenbery is good campaigner,
but they do say "as how Banks knows
the 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 Will
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..
X G. 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 McCaliie. state geologist OF
Georgia. There are also number If
former Tennessee students. now in
business in Atlanta, who were under
Dr.. Dabney's tutelage
When Senator Hoks Smith was sec
retarv of the interior under President
Cleveland DR. Dabney was assistant
secretary of agriculture. and the sens
tor is generally understood to have ia
vored Dr.. Dabney's appointment a. sec
rotary or 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 ut to be 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 10 assume his duties az
a member of the faculty Of Yale Uni
versity.
He has been the city's cordially vel
coined guest since March >. arriving
there direct from the .nsugurs ton OF
his successor in the white mouse.