Evening star., 1915-01-14
SHOEMAKER AUTHOR
Of THE DRY RIDER
Sheppard Amendment Die
tated by Counsel for Anti
Saloon League.
FIGHT WILL BE PUSHED,
&C. DINW!DDlE DECLARES
Legislative Superintendent of Ma
tional Organization Cites Incon-
sistency of Protests.

The proposed amendment of Senator
Sheppard of Texas to impose prohibi-
ton upon the District of Columbia as
4 rider" upon the District of Columbia
appropriation bill now pending in the
Senate was drawn by the principal of
nciais OF the Anti-Saloon League of the
District of Columbia, assisted by L. C.
Dinwiddie, Legislative superintendent
of the National Anti-Saloon League, ac-
cording to information obtained today
by reporter for The Star.
The proposed amendment was first
written in the office in the Woodward
building of A E. Shoemaker, counsel
to the Anti-Saloon League of the Dis
trict of Columbia, having been dictated
by him in the presence of Andrew Will
son. president of the District League,
and Mr.. Dinwiddie.
Likewise, senators who are in favor
of the passage of the amendment have
widdie in other respects in the liquor
fight. Mr.. Dinwiddie having been the
'discoverer' of rule 40 OF the Senate,
under which Senator Sheppard pointed
out he had the right to demand the sus-
pension of the rules for the considera-
amendment to the appropriation bill.
Il do not wish to claim any particu-
lar credit for having found the method
which Senator Sheppard employed" Mr..
that rule 40 has existed in the Senate
for a long time. We simply thought
that the tactical situation in our fight
:: inst liquor proved this an oppor-
tune time to call Senator Sheppard'S
attention to his rights under rule 4O.'
Promises Fight to the End.
Mr.. Dinwiddie was interviewed today
by reporter for The Star before vot-
of the appropriation bill or the prohi-
that if the prohibition amend: .ent was
not passed today the fight against
liquor in the District would be taken
up on a more important scale than it
ever has been waged.
Mr.. Dinwiddie made it plain that he
did not want to discuss what Senator
Sheppard or other. advocates of prohi-
bition In the District may do during
the nght. notwithstanding a report
that before the appropriation bill is
by the foes Of liquor Concerning GER
tain provisions. of the bill relating to
taxation. Mr.. Dinwiddie did say, how
ever. that he could not see why the
Chamber of Commerce of Washington
should have taken the stand it did,
when it authorized protest a few
nights ago on the prohibition amend
ment. at the request of Hugh Harvey.
Mr.. Harvey, as. every one knows"
Mr.. Dinwidde said. is or has been the
Washington representative of the Ma
tional Retail Liquor Dealers Associa-
ton. AS such he urged the resolution
through the meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce. when. according to the
published reports. many members had
left the meeting and did not know
what was to come up.
why should the Chamber of Com
merce come. in one breath. and ask
that the people of Washington be re-
garded as the wards of the nation, SO
lar as the 'half-and half proposition
goes. in taxation matters, declaring
that Washington is the National Capt.
tai and must be maintained as the
people of the country want it main
tanned and that it should be treated
by senators and Representatives in
Congress as a national city, and then
come in the next breath and say that
Washington is a local community and
that senators and representatives have
no right to impose upon Washing
tonians laws such as prohibition laws
which have been enacted in their own
home states and communities?
Cites Change of Front.
1t seems that when taxation is up
Washington is 4 National Capital, but
that when prohibition is up Washing
ton is local community.
The fact is that 10 per cent of the
territory of the United States is now
'ery territory, and that 55 per cent of
the population of the United States now
lives In dry territory.
Now. the situation is that, owing to
the action Of the liquor men in Wash
ington in attempting to control the ex-
else board and in attempting to have
the Jones-Works excise law construed
their way, the Anti-Saloon League of
the District of Columbia has deter
mined to fight in future for straightout
prohibition in the District of Columbia,
and, irrespective of whether the Sem
ate passes the amendment before it or
one gaining the same purpose. that
will be the fight.
Il may say that the National Anti
Saloon League is behind the District
organization in every possible way.
AS a national organization represent
ing the temperance people of the coun-
try at the National Capital, we expect
to be given considerable attention in
Congress. To put it in plain words,
we shall tell the people back home
just how their senators and represent
atives voted. and we will then have
the people back home at the polls say
what they think about these senators
and representatives.
Obliged to Alter Rule.
yesterday the Senate was obliged
practically to revolutionize it's rules
on this prohibition amendment, and
write into rule 40 a requirement that
two-thirds of the senators present
should approve action, when it is a
fact that the precedent of the Senate
and the practice of American parlia-
mentary bodies generally is that a ma
iority controls except when by the
Constitution or other rule it Is other
wise specified.
"If Washington bad electoral machine
cry the Anti Saloon League would have
no objection to referring the question
10 the voters of the District, but we
are opposed to any amendment that
would permit the voting of Tom, Dick
or Harry, and endless labor would be
required before voting qualifications
could be settled, in addition to which
as people thoroughly familiar with the
District know. they never could be
settled
Thousands of people who reside here
would refuse to vote, for fear of dis
qualifying themselves as voters in their
home states, and thousands Of people
would vote whom many residents of
Washington would not want to vote
You couldn't have an educational re-
quirement for voters in the capital Of
i the nation. nor property require
ment, so political experts say. for fear
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