Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-03-01
PROHIBITION. BILL
MEETS APPROVAL
Goes on Calendar Substan-
TALLY as it Came From
Senate
REJECT AMENDMENTS
REJECT AMENDMENTS
Salary of Prohibition Commissioner
S3,5O0-Cider May Contain Three
Per Cent of Alcohol.

Richmond. March l.--Rejecting by
decisive majorities all amendments
looking to integral changes. the
House Committee on Moral and so,
cial Welfare voted unanimously last
night to report the Mupp prohibition
bill substantially in the form in which
it passed the Senate.
Yielding to the pressure Of Chair
man Jordan, Delegate Williams and
other members of the committee who
were opposed to the section prohibit
ing the sale and distribution in Viz
ginia of newspapers published out OF
the State when such papers carry
liouor advertisements, the committee
amended this section to allow the sale
and distribution of such newspapers
to bona fde purchasers or subscrlb,
ers.
The qualification was attached &c
meet the fear of Senator Mapp ana
Rev, James Cannon, Jr., both OF
whom sat with the committee through
its two sessions yesterday, that L
the section were stricken out entire
", the way would be opened for the
distribution of whisky-house publ.
cations supplied to the people of the
State free of charge.
| In Difference to the claim of cider
manufacturers tnat the Mapp bill If
allowing the sale in or out of the
State of cider made from home grown
apples. containing not more than one.
half of l per cent alcohol. it was
granting right that was nulificd
by an impossible condition, the COM
mittee raised the alcohol percentage
! to ] per cent. In no other respects
was the cider section of the Mapp bill
! changed. The testimony of cider
manufacturers before the House com.
mitee was to the effect that cider
often contains more than onc-half OF
/ per cent of alcohol when it leav.
es the press, and that it would bt
next to impossible to hold the per.
centage of alcohol to this minimum
under ordinary conditions without
the use of preservatives.
Senator Mapp and Senator Walker.
both patrons of the prohibition bill.
/ addressed the committee at length
on the Gordon amendment ~provid-
ing for the enforcement of the pro
hibition law by the Attorney-Gcneral
Senator Mapp repeated the argument
against the plan that he made before
the committee Monday night, while
Senator Walker gave it his Strong
Endorsement. He was one of the lead
ers i'm the unsuccessful Senate fight
for the adoption of the Conrad amend
ment looking to the same end.
Richmond, March delegate Page
of Albermarle yesterday offered re-
solution in the House directing the
State Accountant to examine the book
of the State Auditor and the State
Treasurer and report upon the con-
dition of the treasury. The resolution
was referred to the Finance Com
mittee.
There will be surplus instead OF
a deficit in the State Treasury II
1918 if the revenue bills now before
the Finance Committees are passed
according to formal statement made
by Chairman Brewer, of the House
Committee on Appropriations.
If the bills are not passed there vii
be, Mr.. Brewer shows, treasury de
fic:t in 1918 of S595,300.
Passage of the bills will mean ;
slight increase in tax rates, but tnt
taxes which will then be paid by th'
individual will be considerably les
than those paid under the old ia!
system.
Chairman Jordan, of the Hou5
Committee on, Moral Welfare, hell
another meeting of his committe
yesterday to further consider the pro
hibition bill and to consider particu
larly the amendments suggested b,
Delegate Lindsay Gordon, of Louisa
One of Mr.. Gordon's amendment
is to place the enforcement Of pro
libition laws in Virginia upon tn