Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-23
BONE DRY MEASURE
BARS BRINGING BOOZE
INTO STATE ON HIP"
Congressman AdanrSOn, RICk-
er and Others Are Convinced
Reed Bill Covers Personal
Carrying of Liquor
BY RALPH SMITH.

BY RALPH Sm1TA.
! WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.-The dras-
/ tic provisions of the Reed ''bone-dry"
| amendment 10 the postal appropriation
/ bill becomes effective the minute the
president approves the measure.
He probably will do this within the
next ten days or two weeks.
There are other features of the bill
/ that are still in conference between the
senate and house and until an agree
ment is reached as to them the bill can
not be sent 20 the White House for the
approval of the president.
Congressman John Moon, of Tennes-
see. chairman OF the postal committee
Of the house. today made it clear 20
/ Tn Journal that the bill becomes imme-
diately effective with its approval by
Mr. Wilson. nt aid:
1t has been time and again and
{ will not be ser y disputed that leg
/ islative provis s. appropriation bills
become effectiv. lmediately the bill is
approved by tn president. of course.
the appropriation do not become avail
able until July /. but that is because
the new fiscal year does not begin until
then and the appropriations are made
/ for the succeeding fiscal year"
REED NOT CERTAIN.
Senator Reed, of Missouri, author Of
| the bill, was unwilling this morning TO
give an opinion as to whether his
amendment applies to the personal
transportation of whisky into prohibi-
| ton states.
I drew the amendment in aNminute
| and a half said ne, and l didn't stop
10 cOnstrue a. literally"
The suggeS ion that the amendment
does not app.y TO beer is ridiculous. OF
| coursejt does in states that have prohib-
tied the sale and manufacture of intoXi-
cant liquors"
The senator was asked If the word
Transportation" as used in the amend
ment applied 20 the personal carriage
OF whisky by persons travelling in in
! terstaje commerce. lie did not care to
express n .uself IS 20 this point. but did
maze il clear that persons desiring 70
pisy iHfe had better lay in their supply
OF .-Ul0r G--0re The president signs the
L..l.
ii. scenes "a the house yesterday aft
t--.u,-.g -, -aTsed concurrence in the
s. aaJc aa.ehd.nent, were lively, and en-
JHgs ..sst.c EpSechcs against the amend
n.eni were interrupted with shouts of
"bOne-Cry' and the widest enthusiasm
marked the final action of the house.
Every Georgia member voted for the
amendment and two of them made
speeches in support of it.
Declaring that il was inconceivable 20
him that any prohibitionist could vote
against the amendment Representative
Crisp, of the Third, made an eloquent
plea for concurrence. He said he had
been voting the prohibition ticket TWEEN
ty-five years. He read a telegram from
DR.. Charles o. Jones, chairman of the
Georgia Anti-Saloon league, strongly
commencing the amendment and urging
its adoption.
HOWARD MAKES SPEECH.
This is the day real prohibitionists
have been praying for" said William
Schley Howard. 1T makes it possible
for dry states to raise a generation of
sober men, happy children and contented
wives and mothers.
81 see members Of the anti-saloon
league who hold salaried Jobs divided
on this question. Too drastic, some Of
them say, they are homeopathic prohibi-
tionists. l am allopathic.
Gentlemen who profess to be prohibit
tionists and are opposing this amend
ment remind me of an incident that
occurred in my boyhood. One morning
as L was on my way TO school | dis
covered "A poor bug in the dusty road,
laboring under many difficulties. i
thought at first il was a june bug, but
it was not; its plight touched my boy
ish sympathies and 1 thought / would
assist it in its predicament. but upon
close inspection / found that this bug
was pushing one way and looking an
other. and in boyish disgust l left il TO
its task"
Mr.. ADAMSONS VIEW.
Congressman Adamson, of Georgia,
chairman Of the interstate commerce
committee, who is an authority on inter
state commerce laws holds that the Reed
amendment literally construed applies
to the personal transportation of liquor.
Il have written my constituents that
under the amendment they will be liable
to punishment If they should go into
Florida and return to Georgia with a
bottle of liquor ION the hip" j feel GER
amendment TO apply to the personal
| transportation of intoxicants."
Congressman =. W. Rucker, who serv-
| ed several years as assistant United
States attorney in the northern district
| Of Georgia, concurs in the view of Judge
Adamson. lie had much experience in
/ the prosecution OF moonshiners and is
Z familiar with the decisions of the fed
I eral courts relating to whisky. He said:
There is federal statute against
/ the transportation of whisky from an
Illicit still house The courts uniformly
+ have held that this applied to the per-
soual removal Of liquor on the hip 1t
seems TO me that this law is analogous
10 the Reed amendment and l believe
F the courts viii so hold"
+ Donco Ioolo,,ev Dietol.