The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-02-23
Person May Receive I'm
Monthly Shipments
IS PASSED BY STATE SENATE
By a Majority OF Is To s.
A Lively Debate On the
Question.
CONsTITUrIoNALITy DOUBTED
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Frankfort, Ky, Feb. 1S.--if dill
that passed the upper branch of the
Legislature to-day becomes q law,
the consumers of ardent spirits in
dry territory viii have to accom-
MEDIATE their thirst to two quarts of
whiskey or brandy and hvo gallons
of beer a month-the limit of allow
ance proposed in the Taylor bill, s.
b. "A.
The Senate passed the bill by a
vote Of % to s, after II had been
amended to cut out any reference
to advertising which might be con-
strued as prohibiting the circulation
in dry" territory of newspapers car
rying liquor advertisements.
The dissenting Senators were: T.
A. Combs, of Fayette; Hite Hufak-
err, c. II. Knight and s. l.. Robert
son, of Louisville; T. J. Moore, of
Breckenridge: L. n. Rayburn, of
Lewis; A. Z. Stricklett, Of Coving-
ton, and j. NJ. Thompson, of Union.
An amendment PROPOSING to linn
IT the shipmeAts to a case of dozen
quarts of Nhiskey and ten dozen
pints of beer, offered by Senator
Combs, was voted down.
The fight for the passage of the
Taylor bill was led by Senator w. A.
Frost, Of Graves, the recognized pro-
hibition lea lev, who urged its enact
ment as the only means of restrict
ing bookkeeping"
Senator T. ]. Moore. OF Brecken-
ridge. in opposing the bill, went af-
ter the dry element for what he
called its Incorporate and intolerant
attitude. He scored the prohibition
lists for emasculating in committee
his bill prohibiting the sale of
"coca-cola" in any place except
where liquors were legally sold.
Senator j, B. Zimmerman, of Bull
lit, urged the passage of the bill on
the ground that it would tend to en-
force the local option laws in dry
territory, which he insisted was the
only barrier between Statewide pro-
hibition. He was interrupted by
Senator Moore. who caused a ripple
of laughter in the Senate chamber,
when he inquired of the Built coun-
ty Senator if he had ever bought
from a "bootlegger," ~
which Senator Zimmerman promptly
replied he had not, and that he had
never drank intoxicants.
A big laugh was caused when
Senator Moore retorted
well, l have, and every time
had to hunt the 'bootlegger' instead
If him looking me up to sell me-"
Urging that final action be post
'oned on the measure, the constitu-
ionality of which he declared was
'ery doubtful. to say the least, Sem
tor Hite Huffaker deplored the tao
les of the "drys" in impugning the
motives of all who did not agree
With them. He ridiculed the pre-
umption of Senators not lawyers,
Who so glibly assured that the pro-
isions of the bill We're constitution
l.
Senator Huffaker resented the i'm
utation that those who favored
ostponement were dominated by
he liquor interests. as he claimed
ad been charged on the floor. He
that every court that
ad passed ON the Webb-Kenyon Ma
Ional Liquor Shipment Bill had de-
Jared 1t unconstitutional and the
REVEALING legal opinion was that IL
'ould not hold water. In that event.
e declared. the Taylor bill would
o with it, II enacted. He declared
imself strongly in favor of the prin-
ple of local option and the strict
Increment of the law.
Senator r. nj. Salmon. of Hop
ms, took the position that the Tay-
'r bill was fair enough even to
hose who wanted intoxicating IL
uors In dry" territory. as the
uantity permitted to be shipped
lonthly was enough to kill them
they kept it up long enough"