The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-02-12
A GREAT VICTORY
FOR TEMPERANCE
Atiouse Passes the Webb
Liquor Bill
BY MAJORITY OF 240 TO 65
After Stubborn, All.Day De.
bate.Act Now Goes To
Senate For Vote.
THE LINEUP ON THE MEASURE

Washington. Feb. S.-The tenn
perance forces won sweeping vic
tory to-day which even Kentucky
oratory could not prevent, when the
House OF Representatives passed
the webb Bill regulating the inter-
state shipment of liquors by the ov-
crwhelming majority of 240 yeas
TO s5 nays. The bill is regarded as
the opening wedge to a Nationwide
temperance move.
The bill was literally damned
through the House by an irresisti-
BILE force. the liquor interests being
put TO rout and driven from the
field. When their representatives,
who we're fighting the battle of the
VESTS" saw that nothing could
stop. the bill, they concentrated their
efforts in an attempt to amend it
but every amendment offered to
emasculate it was downed in a
storm OF noes and the bill as it
passed was exactly as it came out
of committee.
II was great day for the white
ribboners. who packed the galleries
and looked on approvingly. The
attendance upon the House floor
was unusually large, although many
a member would have preferred to
be somewhere else.
The membership of the House al
ways breads vote OH the prohibit
tion issue, but the adoption of
special rule for the consideration of
the measure removed the last hope
for evasion at this session.
Four Kentucky members voted
against the special rule for cOnsid-
Grafton of the bill, and against the
bill on final passage. They were
Messrs. Sherley, James, Cantrill and
supported the bill all the way
through. They were Fields. John
son. Langley, Powers and Helm.
Two Kentucky members. Stanley
and Thomas. were absent.
The Webb bill permits State Off
GERS to seize liquor sent into dry
State for improper purposes. The
report accompanying the bill says
1T would remove the shackles of
interstate commerce law from the
States and discontinue the handicap
under which they now labor In en-
forcing their police regulations and
leave them freer to break up. the
blind tigers and 'bootleggers' that
infest many dry States"
Next week the Senate will vote
on the Kenyon bill. similar to the
Webb bill. 1t is possible the Webb
bill will be substituted for the Ken
yon bill in the Senate and passed
and sent up to the President.
The temperance forces are in the
saddle in the Senate, also. During
the debate. Representative Cantril
for a few minutes and voiced their
disapproval of the measure.
Representative Sherley in an i'm
FASHIONED speech attacked the con-
stitutionality of the bill and offered
an amendment.
His amendment. II passed. would
have changed the entire complexion
of the bill. 1t provided for strik-
ing out OF the bill the words trans
portation of liquor" and inserted
"All articles"
representative Sherley argued
that Congress did not have the right
to delegate to the States any powers
which were not granted in the Con-
He also opposed the bill
on the grounds that he did not be-
lieye in class legislation. and for
this reason offered his amendment.
which would not only restrict the
transportation OF liquor from wet
into dry territory but would also
prohibit the transportation of any
article from one district into an
other where IL was not wanted
representative Sherlev's speech |
was largely technical and involved
the legal side of the battle. He de- |,
clared he believed the Webb bill az |
reported out by the House Judic-
larry Committee to be fatally un-
He asserted that there were |