The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-26
FOOD. BILL DRY
PLANK ARGUMENTS
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! full committee tomorrow and that the
pill would be on the floor for finish
fight late Wednesday or Thursday.
The house dry amendment will be
rewritten to clarity it, but will not
be changed, according to present
committee plans.
st. Louis Brewers object.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 26.-"Con-
gress is seeking to give President
Wilson more autocratic powers than
the former czar of Russia ever had"
The food bill is inconsistent, be-
cause, while it would prohibit the
use Of. grains for brewing in the
United States, it would not prohibit
the expectations of grains to England
and other countries where it could
be brewed."
"The proposed law probably will
be declared unconstitutional, il it
passed in it's present form, because
it does not provide single compen-
satiop for industries it will wreck"
These are opinions of ST. Louis
brewers in statements to the United
Press today on the prohibition clause
in the Lever food bill, passed by the
house Saturday.
II have grave doubts Of the con-
,stitutionality of the measure" Otto
F. Stifel, president of the Union
Brewing Co., and prominent politician
declared. August A. Busch, head of
,Anheuser Busch, said his company
had years supply Of beer on hama.
He did not care to comment on the
action of congress.
Hugo Koehler, president of the
Independent Brewing Co., points out
that American grain can be shipped
to- England, made into beer, there,
and reshipped to the United States.
Destruction of property would be
immense" he said. asserting that st.
Louis breweries repesent an invest
ment of more than seventy-f1ve mil
lions.
Brewers estimated that at least ten
thousand men would be thrown out
of employment here.
Bryan Endorses It.
FRANKFORT, KY, June 26.-Em-
phatic endorsement OF the prohibit
ton clause in the Lever food control
bill was given by VIM j. Bryan in a
statement to the United Press here
today. Bryan is on lecture tour
through the state.
II am very much gratified at the
action taken by the house of repre-
sentatives at Washington in adopting
the Barley amendment forbidding
conversion of food products into
alcoholic liquors. he said. ut is
splendid response to the patriotic de.
mand Of the nation. I hope the SEN
ate will promptly accept the house
amendment that the president be
authorized to commander all the
alcoholic liquor in the country and
it so that the alcohol can be
used for military purposes.
Kentucky is to be congratulated
on the fact that one of her congress
men proposed this amendment. It
Ver1f1es that the poison found its an
tidote near at home"
MiIwaukee's View.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, June 60
Complete ruin of the business"
This was the general view of prac- |
tically all brewers in Milwaukee to-
day on the meaning of the liquor
clause In the food control bill which !
passed the lower branch of congress |
Saturday night.
They are pessimistic, too, over |
what the senate will do with the
measure.
we nave no knowledge of how the |
senate stands on the BILL" said Secre-
AIRY Stark of the Pabst breweries.
We hope that the senate will not
pass the bill. If they do, it means
complete ruin Of our business"
Gustav Pabst, president Of the
2abst brewery and also chief execu-
i've of the National Brewers body is
n Washington fighting passage Of the
dill.