The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-03

made by Metsrs. Kelly. Blake and
Basil, and appealed to the commit
tee to enact the Mapp bill giving yir-
ginia adequate prohibition laws.
Governor Mann Heard,
Governor Mann insisted that 1t was
not the purpose of the trainers OF
the bill TO infringe upon the powers
of the Governor in providing for n
commissioner. Mr.. Mann said he
wanted to put himself on record as
desiring to give the Governor more
power over the ministerial and judi
cial officers throughout the State.
The thing the people voted for
said Governor Mann, replying to Mr..
Kelly and Mr. Blake, was not the
enabling act. ! venture that but a
few hundred people in the State ever
read the enabling act. 1t was to sub
NIT to the people of Virginia the aues-
ton whether ardent spirits should be
manufactured and sold. The ticket
was clear. 1t read For Statewide pro-
hibition' and Against Statewide prohi-
bition.' That was what was on the
ticket. 1t had nothing to do with
winery and brewry legislation.
This General Assembly it not
morally bound or legally bound by
the action of the last General Assem-
liquor traffic is dead; we are here
to put a seal upon 1t so. ii can never
be resurrected
Defends Committee.
Governor Mann defended the idea of
having a committee on Moral and So
cial Welfare, which Atr. Blake had at
tackled. The former Governor showed
that the liquor question became NOR
al issue in 1903 when the Mann bill
hal To- H,l
come into law when the men sat on
the bench and rut out many saloons
II continued a moral issue when whila
counties and ever cities were dry they
were flooded with liquor
'Mr. Blake said TO eill like this
has been introduced since Mahones
time | will go further--no bill like
this has been introduced in 22s years.
That long ag~ prohibition bill was
passed in Virginia. 1t was a strin-
gent law. but 1t exempted Charles City
County and the city of williamsburg"
Laughter interrupted. Il will go even
further" he. continued. such a law
has never been introduced until now"
IF the Anglc-Saxon people have been
drinking fifteen hundred years, it's time
they had enough"
Judge Mann said that any business
in which 5000. 0o0 capital is invested
and which caused those engaged in 1t
to be unable to pay board for thirty
days after being thrown out, ought.
for economic reasons, II no other, be
stopped.
He said that newspapers and peri
odicals. having liquor advertising
could be received through the mail
without violating the law. News
dealers in Virginia could do as they
do in other States. use rubber stamp
to efface all liquor advertising. He
held this provision to be a good one,
that We don't want people to read
liquor advertisements, TO get liquor, 10
drink it; it is harmful, destructive, a
specific for degeneracy.
1T is not necessary to argue this
is a wise bill; the people have told
you that when they voted for it with
a ma jority. The only thing this Leg
islature has to do is to carry their
will into effect. We have tried to do
1t in this bin"
For External Use.
Mr.. McAliister representing the Hot
Springs Hotel, and, with Mr.. Cardwell.
other hotels in the State. requested
amendment to permit ordering and
receiving ardent spirits, wines and al
cohol for cooking, culinary purposes
only, or externally with bath. He ex-
planned that at the health resorts
especially alcohol liz used in rubbing
after baths, and otherwise amending
the measure as II affects hotels These
were submitted TO the committee for
consideration.
Mrs. Hoge Speaks.
Senator Mapp next presented Mrs.
Howard NJ. HoEe, president of the w.
/ c. T. u. which Mrs. Hoge told. in
speaking briefly. had been actively
working since 1873 to drive the sa-
her gratitude that the ideals OF her
! organization was so near realization.
endorsed the anti-advertising. the
cider and the commissioner provisions
OF the bill. especially, and endorsed
tths measure as a whole
Mrs. Jobson Appears.
| Mrs. Georgia May Johson. president
| of the Woman's Prohibition League
OF America, was the final speaker.
Mrs. Jobson told OF her work for pro-
hibition, told OF her deep sympathy
with the women and children who
needed help because of the liquor
evil. and give thanks that she has
lived to see the day the monster was
driven out. She said that the State
should have the best possible law for
the enforcement of prohibition and re-
ported that the w. p, L. A. at Its re-
! cent convention endorsed the general
provisions OF the Mapp bill, among
them the commissionership.
The committee adjourned at 9;35 to
meet again at o'clock this after
noon,