The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-01-26
DryS Claim First Heat In
Having Bill Favorably
Reported
ANTI-PASS GOES THRU
Much Interest Over Woman Suffrage
Stanley County Will Likely Be
Mads-A Business Session.

al duIl-pdsS Dill are tne paramount Is
sues TO be settled at this session of the
Kentucky General Assembly.
There has hardly been a day since
the 1916 session opened but that these
three matters have been mentioned OF
referred to in resolutions, bills and the
like
The "wets" claim that a showdown
on the liquor question was forced too
early for the good Of a business ad.
ministration. but the "drys" claim they
are determined to know where every
member stands at the earliest possible
date
Elated over their victory in having
the Statewide bill favorably reported
by the Senate committee, the "drys"
gave the administration the biggest
surprise of their lives and staged a
battle of more than ordinary interest,
although it may be short and decisive.
DR.. Norman A. Palmer, Superintend.
ent of the Kentucky Anti-Saloon
/ League, and Mrs. Frances L. Beau.
champ, President of the Kentucky
/ W o m ms Christian Temperance
/ Union. have been on the ground since
the opening of the Legislature 1t is
said that the usual paid lobbyists of
the distillers have not made their ap.
pearance yet, but they are expected to
get active soon. In the last Legisla.
ture of 1912 the Statewide qucs ton
was deferred until the closing days of
the General Assembly.
Drastic enough to remedy the evils
so long complained of by the people.
the administration anti-lobby, anti.
trust and corrupt practice measures
have been introduced in both Houses
and will be pushed by Governor Stan.
ley, who pledged himself to see that
they were enacted.
The bill to reimburse Kentuckians
for cattle destroyed in stamping out
the epidemic of foot and mouth dis
ease is expected to pass both Houses
with little opposition. 1t provides
S6S.000 to cover these losses sustained
by farmers. Similar bills have been
passed by fourteen States.
Representative Frank C. Greene, of
Carrollton, has said that he will op.
pose non. Arthur Rouse, Burlington,
for the denomination to Congress from
the Sixth District. Greene is also de.
termined to push his Jim Crow" bill,
providing for the separation of street
cars with compartments for negroes
Judge James M. Benton has made
II known that he does not intend to
oppose Representative j. Campbell
Cantrill, of the Seventh District, in
event he is not selected to succeed the
late Justice Lamar on the Supreme
bench by President Wilson. He was
supported for the latter place by all
except three of the Kentucky delega.
ton in Congress.
The fight of the dry forces in the
Legislature to secure the passage of
a Statewide amendment for prohibi
ton is only the initial struggle that
will be waged during this session.
A bill is to be introduced to prohibit
the manufacture of intoxicating
liquors in Kentucky.
The constitution is silent on the
question of the manufacture of intoxi.
eating liquors. The sale, barter or
loan is permitted by Section 81 of the
constitution, but the word "manufac.
ture" was left out, so that the dry
forces claim that a bill to prohibit the
manufacture may be passed by a ma.
Jority vote. 1t is in the hands of Sen.
ator Frost and Representative Hamil
ton. who introduced the Statewide
bills in the Senate and House respec.
lively.
Judge Joe f. Williams, of McCreary
County, is In Frankfort claiming that
the impeachment charges are utter.
ly groundfess" and says that he is |
there to answer them in person.
The Advertisers Clubs of Louisville
and Lexington are active in having a
bill introduced providing for a penalty |
for fraudulent advertising similar to |
the city ordinances which the clubs
have, respectively, succeeded in get.
ting through the city councils OF each
city.
Congressman A. w. Barley has in.
troduced bill in Congress ito pre-
vent the manufacture and sale of al |
coholic liquors in the District OF Co
Mmbia," and says that it is his inten
tion TO push the bill to turn the ma
tional capital dry. He said that ii was
a mistake to accuse Kentucky as be
ing a "whiskey State" for ia out OF
l20 counties are dry.
II is regarded as somewhat novel
that a member of Congress from the
State that produces more whiskey
than any other in the Union. and has
three-fifths Of all the whiskey in the
United States in its bonded ware.
houses, should champion the cause OF
prohibition. according to Washington
dispatches.