Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-05
STATEWIDE LAW
MEETS APPROVAL
BY SO TO 5 VOTE
Amendments Are Voted
Down With Machine
like Regularity.
GOES BACK TO SENATE
FOR MINOR CORRECTION :
Will Be Ready for Signature O;
Governor Stuart Early
This Week.
PROVIDES FOR COMMISSIONER
Anti-Saloon League Program j.
Carried Out in Its
Entirety.
GOES BACK TO SENATE
FOR MINOR CORRECTION :
PROVIDES FOR COMMISSIONER
Anti-Saloon League Program j.
Carried Out in Its
Entirety.


Following an unbrokcn debate of
more than seven hours the House of
Delegates last night. by q vote of s.
to .. concurrcd in the passage of the
Mapp prohibition bill. approving &.
substantially in the form in which 1.
was reported from the committee.
Every amendment attached by tie
House Committee on Moral and Socia!
Welfare was approved. Every amend
ment offered from the floor that did
not come before the body with the
imprimatur Of the prohibition leader
was rejected. Except for minor con
cessionS granted upon the insistenc..
OF prohibition men aud last-minute cor
rections and enlarGcmcnts. the mcasur.
carries every provision demanded ~
the Anti-Saloon League. and its pass
age represents victory for this or
sani2ation, complete and absolute.
The bill goes now to the Senate for
concurrence in the amendments that
have been attached since it was pnssc.i
by that body by u vote of 33 to T.
The amendments Will be concurrcd IN
as a matter of course, and the bill Wiz
70 to the Governor early this week
Governor Stuart has already said thnt
he will sign H.
AMENDMEN'rS REFLECTED WITH
NACliiNELlIiE pRECISIo-
For a solid hour the House voted o..
amendments. With machncljle pr,
cision il rejected. in tile order name,
the Willis amendment. striking out lii,
c"mmissioncrship provision. by a vo,
OF 81 To -: the Love amendment mai,
Ing the Attorney-Cicneral commissioner
OF prohibition. by II vote of 40 to -
thc Reed amendment. making the pro
hihition commission elective hy the
people beginning in 1870 by vote o,
- TO Al, and the Noland amcndmeut
Designed to prohibit any officer Of the
new department from engaging actively
in politics. by a vote of +. to ~
other amendments. providiuc: more or
less drastic changes. were rojectet
without the ceremony OF "a recorded!
vote. The process Of elimination was
completed nj 7:l5 o'clock. and the bin
itself placed on its passage The hour
uf prohibitions had struck Members
bitterly opposed 10 major features OF
the bill buried their discomfort and
boarded the band wagon Wet and
dry. organization ANA antiorganiza,ior.
rural ana urban members joined in
throwing Nirginia's newborn prohibit
tt"n banner to the breeze.
40 DRAMATIC SCENES
MARK F,N,I. roll. Carl
rir,car ,,i,u, c,o ,,
Of th,. nn,l ron c,Il $40 NM s,as
,,', ~ ".t' s'oou
Jordan House prohibition leader roovcl
1t reconsideration of the vote. ,rh,
House refused 10 reconsider, and the
| victory was sealed beyond recall ;,
minute later IN" House, worn and
weary ana hungry adjourned TO meet
again 't 10 O'Clock Monday morning.
mere WAS almost entirely absen,
.h' dramatic elements that might have
"een expected TO accompany the official
''F'h % another prohibition state. The
'N"tH sh'''rS received the announce
inc No'" without demonstra-
''"'' 'tN 'rith"S Sathercd about
''I' a,,a ""pP an" i'eiest'e Jordan 10
'N'eh" thcir CONGRATULATIONS super
'h'""uent James Cannon. Jr, of tho
'""h league thc personality
u,"@, '"'''''''eN "Saoe'ated with the
o, an" P"sN''S OF the h'ir "N-
,;i,,n WIN several pcoht-
w,n. tn' ,','" 'Sl.'F'"''