Evening journal., 1915-03-03
Special to THE EVENING JoURNA

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL. I
DOVER, Del. March 3-"Wets" cap |
tured the first skirmshes of the pres
ent Legislature, when the House by
a vote of l6 yeas to 10 nays, with !
three members not voting, defeated |
Representative Hills bill prohibiting
shipment of more than one gallon OF
whiskey or more than one-eighth of a
barrel of beer a month to any one
adult resident of Kent or Sussex coun-
ties in any one month The fight
is not over by any means for Repre-
sentative Hill gave notice he will
move a reconsideration.
Immediately after the Hill bill was
defeated the House, by vote Of
20 yeas TO nays, passed Representa-
tive Rashs bill to repeal the present
Hazel anti-shipping law, which per-
mits dealers outside Delaware to ship
liquors into Kent and Sussex coun-
ties. but bars New Castle county deal
ers from making such shipments.
The House was packed with temper
ance advocates, W. c. r. U. cohorts.
/ ministers and others when the Hill
! bill was called It required about
! 10 minutes for the measure to be
!
! ting treating" that was recommend-
1 ed by the temperance committee, was
adopted by vote of II TO -. It
would allow a person having liquor in
| his home in dry" territory TO give
a drink to a friend.
At the request of Mr.. Hill, the tenn
perance committee chairman, privilege
of the floor was granted to J. Bibb
] Do QtfnT-
ney of the Anti-Saloon League of Del
aware and Maryland. Mr.. Mills eX-
planned the bill and said it had been
patterned after the anti-shipping law
that became effective in the nine
Maryland Eastern Shore counties last
spring.
"It covers a field which the Hazel
anti-shipping law did not" he said,
and then spoke of its constitutional
, merits. I'VE think this bill is consti-
tutional." he added.
Mr.. Mills told the legislators 1t was
not within their province to speculate
over whether a bill was constitutional.
He said as far as he could learn, no
test sui;s aad been started in Mary
land to determine the constitutionallty
of the shipping law there
He asked for passage of the Dllis on
the ground that it would afford pro
lection to the coming generation, and
5 said the anti-liquor forces in Maryland
o sought enactment by Delaware of th'
10 Hill bill. because it would preven
o Marylanders from having their liquo
G shipped to Delaware towns lying nea
c the Maryland boundary.
e Mr.. Mills claimed that under N
- consideration could there be an over
+ lapping of the Hill bill with the webb
Kenyon law. He said that under IN
J. bill the temperance advocates wer
a dealing lightly with the imbiber.
n gallon a month, he claimed, was
e quantity of liquor sufficient for an
d drinker. The Hill bill, he argued
q would preclude minors from haVin
It intoxicants shipped to them, which h
a claimed was possible now with Tn
T clause drawn from the Hazel law.
"It is the speak-easy and the boo'
II logger that the Hill bill would esp'
N ciallv hit" said Mr.. Mills. who col
m tended that no matter how drlnkei
d and speak-easy proprietors would ci
u cumvent the law, it was always poss
y BILE for the county prosecutor TO a
q rest them.
- "Tbese people down here haven
~ cotton IN the point where they ca
~ do without liquor entirely remarl
Ier cd Mr.. Mills. The deputy attorney
Il. general of Kent and Sussex countie
ma he said. favored the bill while sent
ment through the State was arouse
ms i'm its behalf.
a. Wilbur l.. Sasse, of Wilmington,
official of Francis Kelly and Cor
ro. many. wholesale liquor dealers
,lol Wilmington, was granted privilege
ico the floor on motion of Representati
~ Bendler to reply to Mr.. Mills. N
Sasse had been seated in the lob
-, among the White Ribboners, al
,,-t when he arose, there was craning
49,, neclxs among the women. Mr.. Sas
.hs said he believed the Hill bill wou
meet the same fate in the courts
the Hazel law. In it's applicatio
he thought its effectiveness would
ia less than the law framed by Senat
Hazel. Mr.. Sasse referred to
anJ Kansas decision on Monday by (
~ Dnt Supreme Court.
ny, Rev. Charles NJ. Levister. assists
NJ" superintendent of the Anti-Salo
w, League of Delaware and Marylal
'e.h replied to Mr.. Sasse and claimed
cs'' bill was contitutiOnal.
Representative Hill was the M
sneaker. He favored his bill,
announced. because II afforded p
,wn lection against "speak-easies, VIII
ers are the curse of the lower countie
of he said. 1--WE appeal TO the \
wn- Castle members to heed the call
TO Kent and Sussex" he concluded.
age Representative Hall, of Smyr
len said he was satisfied to permit
es- constitutional merits of the meas
larry TO be decided in the future and fay
MIS- ed the bill
,rge Representative Bender, of ID
ware City. asked why the blind pi
could not be stopped under th2 HI
law. DIR. Levister replied that ii
,;,oa was nothing in the Hazel law to {
onds tail the quantity OF liquor an imb
~, might have on his premises.
- Representatives Jones and r
= Joined Mr.. Bender in asking al
" On, Sr the enforcement of the laws. but
49, Hill called for a vote on the bill W
~ m resulted as follows;
'' H. Yeas-Messrs. Carey Daisey, ID
Donovan. Downward, Evans.
--- Hoetinge HUl Mahroy Million