The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-17
PROGRAM
NOW COMPLETED
ALL OF THEIR BILLS HAVE BEEN
PASSED BY BOTH HOUSE
AND SENATE.

ATLANTA, Nov. 16.-The passage
yesterday afternoon by the house of
representatives of the bill to prohib-
it The advertising of any prohibited
liquor in any form in the state of
Georgia completed the program of the
prohibition forces. .,p
The omnibus bill was passed by the
house last Friday night. The anti
shipping bill was passed by the house
yesterday morning. And the anti-ad-
vertising bill went through the house
at late hour yesterday afternoon. In
addition to these three bills, which
made up the prohibition program, the
house yesterday passed a bill repeal
ing the statutes licensing breweries
near beer saloons and locker clubs,
thereby removing the last vestige of
legal recognition from these institu-
lions.
As all of the bills passed by the
house were senate bills, having been
previously passed by that body, it
only remains for the bills to go back
to the senate for concurrence in the
changes made by the house, and the
bills will then be transmitted to the
governor for his signature
The only change made in the bills
by the house was to change the eff
fective date of the bills from Janu-
airy /, 1916, to May 1, 1916. In this
change the senate is practically GER
tain to agree, so that the completion
of the prohibition program is the same
as accomplished.
In agreeing to this change in the
date upon which the bills become eff
fective, the prohibition forces in the
house made no sacrifice of princi-
pies whatever, but merely yielded to
eXpediency in the interest of hasten,
ing the passage of the bills and there
by shortening the extra session, so
as to save expense to the taxpayers of
the state.
The opposition first demanded that
the percentage clause of the omnibus
bill be changed from one-half of one
per cent to one per cent. Failing to
secure this concession, they demand
ed that the one half of one per cent
clause be applied to beer, the same
as it applied in the bill to whisky
and wine. Believing that such con
cession would result in the manufac-
ture and sale of beer that would grad
ually be increased in the percentage
of alcohol until regulation beer would
be made and sold in the state, the
nrnb ihit fnpI1, OF in, I,nt,
refusal of this demand also. Then
the opposition agreed to abandon
| their filibuster and permit the bills
| to come to a vote, provided the pro
hibition froces would agree to put the
bills in effect May /, 1915, instead of
January 1, 1916. Regarding this as
a matter of detail, which sacrificed
no essential features of the bills. the
prohibition forces agreed, with the re-
suit that the filibuster stopped and
the bills went through the house in
short order
1t was interesting, not to say
amusing, to observe the manner in
which members of the house who had
stood with the opposition in prolong-
| ing the filibuster, by the simple ex-
pedient of voting to sustain the calls
for aye and nay roll calls on dilatory
motions, vote lCr the bills when the
| final showdown came. They offered
various and sundry excuses for their
remarkable change of heart, and the
house accepted the same with merri-
ment undisguised and unrestrained.
Already the antis in the house are
discussing the attacks which they
say will be made upon the bills in
the courts. If their predictions be
correct-and they seem to know
whereof they speak-the interests OPP
posed to effective prohibition laws
will Immediately concentrate their
whole attention and influence in an
effort to nullify the bills on the
ground Of unconstitutionality