The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-04
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be located at the corner OF Pennsyl-
vania Avenue and Eleventh Street,
and will include the building now
occupied by the well-known eating
place known as "Harvey's."
At the recent annual meeting here
Of the District of Columbia w. C. r.
u. plans were made for the observ-
ance on a big scale of Worlds Tenn
perance Sunday on November IL.
All the Sunday schools of the Dis
trict are being urged to take an active
part in this observance. At o'clock
on the afternoon a big meeting also
will be held at Foundry NJ. E. Church
under the auspices Of the temperance
committee OF that church. the local
Anti-Saloon League and the local w.
&c. T. u.
Mrs. Emma Sanford Shelton. presi-
dent of the District w. C. T. u and
Mrs. Edna Protor, leader OF the
Loyal Temperance Union. are plan
ming to attend the national w. c. T. u.
meeting at Indianapolis in Novem-
Der. On December 16. the National
W, c. r. U. will hold a mass-meeting
at Polls Theater, here In the interest
of national prohibition. and this meet
ing Is expected to give decided im-
petus to the movement to have Con-
gress adopt the resolution submitting
the national prohibition amendment
The local w. c. T. u now has
nineteen adult unions. with a men,
bership Of more than 1000. and its
efforts are all bent towards the one
end, national prohibition.
Interest Is Manifested.
The United States Supreme Court
Is now we'll started on Its winter term
and interest. as a result, is being
manifested in the disposition Of the
case at issue before that court involv-
ing the constitutionality OF the Webb
interstate shipment Of liquor law.
This case has been set down for re-
argument, due to the Importance att
tached to 1t by the court. Wayne
b. Wheeler. general attorney for the
Anti Saloon League of America. and
Other able lawyers who will repre-
sent the temperance interests in
volved. feel certain the Webb law
word.
The Joe Freeman case is another
one OF interest to prohibition folk
which Is to be heard at this session.
A brief on file for the govern
ment involved some novel points in
the construction of the statute
passed by the Sixtieth Congress
penaiizing c. o. d. and uniabeled
shipments of intoxicating liquors
from one State or a foreign country
into another State.
The defendant. residing In Kansas
had shipped to him from Joplin. Mo-,
six unlabeled trunks containing a
quantity of intoxicating liquor. He
was indicted in the United States Dis
trict Court for Kansas. but the court
/ there sustained a demurrer to the In
6ictment. holding that the offense
was complete in the State of Missouri.
where the unlabeled trunks were de-
lsyered to the railroad company, ana
that 1t could be tried only in that
State.
Government Has Appealed.
The government has appealed upon
the ground that the shipment OF the
sunlabeled packages is a continuing Of
Tense and may be punished either in
the wet State where they are deliv-
cred to the carrier or in the district
In the dry State where they are de-
| livered to the consignee. 1t relies In
| part to support this contention upon
that portion of the statute which for
bids the shipment of such package
from foreign countries in the United
States. which would, Of course. be
entirely nugatory If the offense could
!only be punished In the place whore
the liquors were delivered to the
railroad company or other carrier
/ Another cause for appeal II that a
person residing in a dry STATE may
cause such illegal shipments to be
made him from wet state BY trans
hitting an order by mail or other
| wise, and that having initiated the
offense in the dry STATE he may b
punished there.