New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-16
Amendment, Backed by
Allied Forces, To Be
Introduced
SEE LIQUOR PLOT
ON DAVIS MEASURE
Railway Conductors tor
Prohibition as Anderson
Outlines Campaign

Albany. Jan. 10. Belief that the
liquor interests were insincere IN thelr
announced advocacy Of the +. {. DAVIS
statewide prohibition referendum Dill
has led the allied dry" forces OF the
state 10 change part Of their 1917 cam
paien for the enactment of prohibition
Legislation. william II. Anderson sta'e
superintendent Of the Anti-Saiooh
League. announced to-day.
simultaneously, the New YORK state
legislative committee of the Order OF
Railway Conductors, at its blenhlSi
meeting here, adopted resolutions de-
rouncinq the manufacture and sale OF
alcoholic beverages and requesting tne
members Of the Legislature y suppoie
prohibition legislation. Inc leslsla'ise
Commemorative of the committee WAS IN
structed to work for the enactment VI
"dry" measures. 49, ndr,p
Discussing the plans OF the DRY
allies. Superintendent Anderson SA'o
tonight: .l,,,,
vote in 1917, provision for which wouid
bc made in the Davis bill, the allies,
including the Anti-Saloon League, the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
and the Prohibition party, now WIN en-
deavor 20 amend the state constitution
bv the insertion Of prohlbltory clause
Scent Liquor Conspiracy
"Ir,dcr the most favorable circum-
stances IL will be impossible TO suoWlt
tho proposed constitutional amendmehI
IN the voters before 1919, as authority
for reference to the electorate must De
given by two Legislatures whose SEN
ate members are elected two years
apart. ,.:.; 60
the belief on the part OF the liquor
men that they could win II the submls-
sion they now recognize TO be lneYI-
fable could be made this fall--whlle
~, are not so confident OF any future
time-some Of the liquor men and some
~ tho noliticians also desired TO get
nrobibition on the ballot this fall win
Tho woman suffrage amendment, the
submission Of which has been approved
hv one Legislature and will undouot-
cdlv be approved by this one, In the
homo that they could play one against
the other and defeat both
The more important bills of the pro
bibition allies are prepared, Mr.. Ander-
son said. and will be introduced in the
LEGISLATURE tomorrow by Senator Will
lam A Carson, of Yates, a new member.
and by Assemblyman Walter ). McNao,
OF Schenectady, who is now serving ms
third term.
Proposed Measures
The measures would provide for the
nrobibition constitutional amendment,
and would give to all political units
smaller than the state the right to
settle the liquor question for them
selves.
Mr.. Anderson forecast one OF the
fercest prohibition fights ever waged IN
Albany. but was optimistic, because, he
said. "for the first time in the history
of the recent prohibition movement the
nrohibition forces of the state are
solidly behind a single legislative and
political programme. ,
This unity, he said. removed the pos
sibility Of the politicians playing one
set Of dry forces against another, az
has been done in the past, and makes IL
nossible for them to sidestep the pro
hibition question by saying that the
dry forces are not agreed as TO what
they want"
The railway conductors, who de-
clared i'm favor of prohibition to-day,
elected the following officers OF their
legislative committee:
Chairman, Charles A. Burr. New
York: vice-chairman, J. f. Shelley,
Hornell: ecretary-treasurer J. o. Spell
man. Rochester; legislative representa-
tive at Capitol, j. f. Grady, Albany:
The committee will discuss legls!a.
ton affecting railroad employees, and
the members expect to call upon Gov
ernor Whitman before adjourning.