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MARYLAND DIVIDED
UPON DRY QUESTION
Talbot, Coady, LinthiCum And Mudd
Vote Against Prohibition, Price
And Zihlman For it-Virginia Sol
idly Behind The Resolution.

Washington, Dec. 17.-Maryland'
delegation to the House divided to-
day on the question of nationwide
prohibition-rour voting against the
resolution TO submit to the States a
constitutional amendment and two
voting for it.
Representative Talbot, Coady,
Linz hicum and Mudd voted against
The submission resolution, and Rep
resentatives Price and Zihlman vot-
ed for H. Mr.. Zihlman did not in
d.caIe how he was going to vote I'M
Ill about l ) minutes before the vote
was taken. He then told his col
+ leagues that after hearing the days
debate. he had decided to cast his
vote for he submission resolution.
MI Mudd announced early in the
day he intended to vote against the
resolution.
Virginia cast a solid vote for the
/ resolution. Representative Monta
que, who voted against the reSolu
! ton two years ago, was for it this
/ Jiiua saying that he preferred the
| control OF the police regulation of
/ the States by constitutional govern
meat rather than by Congressional
/ Government.
/ RepresentatiVe Coady was the on
/ IT, Marylander who spoke during the
I days bitter debate. He attacked the
, resolution on the grounds that it
! payes the way for small minority
TO dictate TO majority.
1t is a pity that a great public
/ question like this involved in the
/ pending resolution, said Mr.. Coady,
I affecting as it does, not only the
property rights of individuals, but
I their personal liberties as well, can
/ not be considered in the light of rea-
/ son and the experience of mankind,
and decided upon its merits; but it
/ seems it cannot be done
Most measures that come before
/ this body are debated fully and con-
/ sidered with the greatest delibera
JfJn. 3 Ut TTie1 d pFOnf6ItIUI :
before US delibcration is thrown to
the winds and we cease to be even
fair. We had an illustration of this
when the District of Columbia pro-
hibitiOn bill was before the House.
The Rules Committee brought in a
rule absolutely preventing the OPP
pOnents of the bill from voicing their
opposition to completely gagging
. them, although they knew their &C
ton meant the confiscation of prop
/ erty running into hundreds of thou
sands of dollars. 1t was a denial of
/ the right of free speech.
We talk about democracy and the
rule Of the people, but every man
here knows that if this resolution
/ passes and is ratified by the Legisla-
lures of three-fourths of the States
! it will mean the rule of the minori-
. ty. The wishes of the few will pre-
! vail over the protest of the many.
( The great States of the Union
wherein live a majority of our peo-
PIE, from which the Government re-
/ ceiyes an overwhelming portion of
taxes viii vote against it.
Gentlemen in favor of this reSolu-
ton and who come from States that
have statutory and not actual prohi-
bition tell lis that their States have
! advanced in prosperity. They have
told us this so often that we began
/ 10 accept it as the truth until the
publication of the report of the
( Treasury Department of the collec-
/ ton of income and excess profit
! taXas.~~ This report shows that an
+ overwhelming portion of such taxes
came from those States that do not
have prohibition, while those States
! that have it showed surprisingly
small returns.
Il am told that in my own city of
Baltimore four II five men there paid
/ more income and excess profit taxes
than were collected from five of these
! legally but not actually dry States.
This proves to me that there is more
real sObriety. industry and prosperi-
ty in those parts of our country
where the sale of liquor is licensed
/ and regulated by law than in the
/ sections where i, is prohibited.
An overwhelming majority of
+ the people | represent are opposed to
/ this resolution. They are industri-
/ Gus, successful. sober, lawa5iding
citizens. free from care and hypoc-
risy. They know you cannot make
men lead clean lives and be sober by
+ the passage of law. They are too
sensible TO believe this
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