The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-10
SHEPPARD BILL ID MAKE WASHINGTON ''DRY' IS PASSED Senate Adopts Measure by Vote of 5 to g Witht
 Amendments UNDERWOOD'S saN, REFEREND1 : Afhs' Alabamian's Propositio,.sto Have Peo- pie of District Decide Question Is
 Tied-Party Lines Were Not
 Drawn in the Fight

Washington, January 9.-The shep- pard bill to abolish saloons in the national capital after November |, 1917, was passed late today by the Senate and now goes to the House, where its friends claim it is assured of passage. The vote in the senate was 55 to g.
 While the measure prohibits the sale of liquor in the District of Co., lumbia, it permits importation for personal use. An amendment which would have submitted the proposal to a referendum of citizens of the dis trict was defeated just before passage by a tie vote. A to 43.
 HOW THEY VOTED
 The vote on the passage of the bill was: Ayes, democrats, Ashurst, Beckham, Bryan, Chamberlain, Chiffon, Johnson of South Dakota, Kern, Kirby, Lea of Ten nessee, Martin, Myers, Overman, Pittman, Ransdeli Robinson, shafroth, Sheppard Shields, simmons Smith of Georgia, Smith of Maryland, Smith of South Car olina, Swanson, Thomas, Thompson, Var daman, Walsh, Williams-2S. Republicans Borah, Brady, Clapp, Clark, Cummins, Curtis, Dillingham; Fall, Fernald, Gallin- ger, Gronna. Jones, Kenyon, McCumber, Nelson, Norris. Oliver, Page, Poindexter Sherman, Smith of Michigan, Smoot, Sterling, Sutherland, Townsend, Watson, Works-27. Total ayes. 55.
 Noes, democrats, Bankhead, Broussard Culberson, Hardwick. Hitchcock, Hughes, Husting James, Johnson of Maine. Lea of Maryland Lewis, Maritime, Newlands OGorman. Phelan, Pomerene, Reed Salisbury, Smith of Arizona, Stone, Till man, Underwood-22. Republicans Bran degee, Colt, DuPont, Harding, Lippitt, Lodge, Mclean, Penrose, Wadsworth, weeks--io. Total noes-~s2.
 NO PARTY LINE DRAWN Neither the vote on the referendum amendment nor that on the passage Of the bill was on party lines. There were 26 democrats and F republicans voting for the referendum and 22 democrats and 21 republicans voting against it. Most of the republicans of the socalled pro- gressive group voted against it. For the bill itself there were 2S democrats and 2 republican votes. while 12 democrats and 10 republicans were against it. All progressives voted for passage.
 HOW BILL READS
 The prohibiting language of the bill says that after November 1:
 No person or persons, or any house, company, association, club or corpora tion, his, it's or their agents, officers. shall, in the District of Columbia, manu- facture for sale or gift, import for sale. offer for sale, keep for sale, traffic in. barter, export, ship out of the District of Columbia or exchange for goods or mer- chandise or solicit or receive orders for the purchase of any alcoholic liquors for beverage purposes or for any other than scientific, medicinal, pharmaceutical. me- chanical, sacramental. or other nonbev- craze purposes" Another section says the measure shall not be construed to prevent the manu- facture. importation, exportation or sale'' of denatured, methyl alcohol or of ethyl alcohol, for scientific or medicinal and like purposes. but their manufacture and sale are limited to licensed druggists or manufacturers The socaIled locker sys- tenn is specifically forbidden.
 MUST KEEP RECORD
 All common carriers bringing intoxi- cants into the district are required to keep a record of the shippers and con signee, Nvho must make affidavit that they are for personal use. The law de- clared that no property rights shall ex- ist in alcoholic liquors illegally man ufactured or brought into the district, makes every place that violates the law "a common nuisance and gives the right to any citizen to sue to en- join such nuisance.
 Heavy penalties are provided for vio- lations, including a provision aimed at physicians who prescribe liquor for patients without cause. A right to sue for damages from the person who sells liquor to person who is injured fin person or property in consequence of |intoxication is given to blood relatives. AMENDMENTS DEFEATED Efforts to absolutely forbid manufac- ture in the district and export from it were defeated without a record vote. An amendment by Senator Phelan which would permit sale of wine, ale, beer and porter also was defeated. The vote was preceded by little de- bate on it's terms, but many explana- tions were given by senators of their reasons for voting for and against the Underwood referendum amendment. Un- der the agreement for the vote today speeches were limited to few min utes. There was evident spirit of bit terness on the part of many senators and a feeling of tension that was only broken few tfsnes when amendments were offered or suggestions made that the Senate and sthe galleries thought humorous. The crowo was particularly pleased with an amendment proposed by Senator Maritime to forbid the use or manufacture of tobacco in any form in the district There were loud laughs when it was read by the clerk and once |again when after Senator Reed had
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