Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-07
New Element Is Injected Into
Senate Fight, Disrupting
J Leaders Well Laid Plans
and Causing Recess.
MANUFACTURE OF BEER
WILL NOT BE STOPPED
Defeat of "Bone Dry" Amend
ment Gives Assurance That
Prohibition Won't Extend to
Lighter Drinks.

Washington, July 6.-At the close
of a, day of turbulent debate, and af-
ter voting SO to "a against the So
called "bone dry" amendment, the
senate tonight recessed until tomor-
row in the midst of the prohibition
fight on the food control bill.
Defeat of the bone dry PROPOSE
ton nsures that legislation prohibit
ing manufacture Of intoXicants will
be limited to distilled beverages.
Whether consumption as well as
manufacture of distilled spirits
shall cease during the war; new
element injected into the contest at
the eleventh hour, completely dis
rupted leaders well-laid plans and
caused the recess for conferences on
n compromise.
To Prohibit Importation.
After roll calls showing a consider
able majority against stopping man
ufacture of beer and wines or giving
the president power to suspend their
manufacture, the senate voted 6S to
10 to prohibit the importation of dis
TILED beverages and then, by a vote
of As to 40, tentatively adopted pro-
vision prohibiting withdrawal of dis
TILED spirits now held in bond for
beverage purposes. Both provisions,
though voted on separately, are con-
tained in an amendment by Senator
Cummins and were added to the So
called Administration compromise"
substitute of Senator Robinson of Ar
kansas, prohibiting only manufac-
ture of distilled l,veragps, The sub
stifute was offered for the clause as
drafted by the agricultural commit
tee which would place the question
of beer and wine manufacture in the
hands of the president.
Revenue Loss Would BE Heavy.
Many senators who had planned to
vote for the Robinson substitute ex-
pressed their disapproval of the
Cummins amendment, which they de-
clared proposed virtual confiscation
of 220,000,000 gallons of distilled
beverages In bond without conserv-
ing any grain. They pointed out that
the government would lose next year
between $250,000, 900 and $300,0000,-
goo in taxes and asserted that banks
with loans upon distilled spirits might
be put out of business.
The prohibition forces, however,
were openly elated over the possibil-
ity of stopping consumption as well
as manufacture of whiskey and other
hard" beverages.
Tomorrow the fight will center
upon an effort to eliminate the Cum
Minis amendment upon reconsidera-
ton or by compromise.
Compromise Pending.
Pending when the senate recessed
tonight was proposed compromise
amendment by Senator Reed, who
would authorize the president to per-
NIT withdrawal of distilled spirits
from the bonded warehouses il he be-
lieves it In the public interest.
Upon disposition of the prohibition
section, the senate leaders expect to
seek an agreement for a final vote
upon the food bill as whole next
Wednesday or Thursday.
The senate spent the day in fer
vent oratory and roll calls on numer-
Gus proposals. Friends of prohibition
used most Of the time in debate, held
under the agreement limiting each
senator's time, in vain effort to Sc
cure a bone dry provision.