Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-22
Lower House Passes Senate
Amendment Forbidding Ship
ments of Intoxicants Into
Dry States for Personal Use
MEASURE EFFECTIVE
ON PRESIDENTS APPROVAL
No Danger of Defeat When
PoStoffice Bill, to Which It
Is Attached as Rider, Comes
Up for Final Action.
tsr MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL lHAsso w.ssj


Washington Feb. 21.--Absolute
prohibition legislation took its longest
forward stride in the nations history
TO-DAY, when the house after two hours
of uproarious debate, approved by u
four to one majority a senate measure
! which would raise an ironclad barrier
against importation of liquor into pro-
hlbition states. 1t is expected to re-
ceive the approval of President Wilson
within a week, adding Immediately to
the bone dry" territory about one
third of continental United States. The
provision is regarded as the most far
reaching that could be enacted by the
! federal government, and as sweeping
as you'd be possible under any meth
Cd short of a national prohibition
amendment It would cut off entire-
ly liquor importations, amounting now
to millions Of dollars annually, into
the large number Of states which have
/ forbidden manufacture or sale but
have permitted importation for per-
lsonal use.
Noisy Demonstration.
| Advocates of prohibition divided
among themselves over the expediency
of the step, some friends of the cause
| declaring 20 drastic faw would have
IA reoationary effect In the same way
those who have opposed prohibition
were not unanimous in opposition
when the vote was taken. The roll
call brought cheers and cries of bone
dry from all parts of the house, how
ever and the result was greeted with
a noisy demonstration.
The vote as officially announced
was 32l to ~, but a re-check of the
roll changed it to S19 to 72. Party
lines were completely broken down
n a tr,ti
prohibition states were recorded in
the negative. So large vote seldom
Is recorded on any measure.
Not Likely to BE Changed.
A provision barring liquor adver-
tsements from the mails in states that
prohibit such advertising Is included
In the measure, which came before the
house S arider to the annual post
office appropriation bill, inserted by
the senate last week on motion Of
Senator Reed by a vote Of SIS to IL.
Although the appropriation bill will
go to conference because the house
disagreed to other senate amend
ments there is little possibility that
the prohibition amendment, concurred
in without change, will be altered
Members of congress are taking 1t for
granted that President Wilson will ap-
prove It
MAY Be Effective at Once.
Although some members had giveis
IT as their opinion that the legislature
features added to the postal bill wonld
not be effective until July |. the ef-
fncttv" date of the approximations t.
carries, senators and representatives,
"he ait considered authorities, salG
tonight that al tho legislative ritela.
Including Tho Reed prohibition amend
.tg1tf.t ,I.y1g,r'lrf -rrNt.1I tr.-r--.s
rn''Fe na soon as TIC president has
signed tRc measure.
Decks Are Cleared
Dry advocates were tubil1nt ga
night Representative Webb Of North
Carolina, father Of the resolution for
a national prohibition amendment, dc
clared the overwhelming affirma tive
vote had killed the states rights argu-
ment and that the national amend
ment, already reported favorably, GER
tainly would pass the house at this
mittee of the Anti-Saloon league is
sued statement saying today's ac-
ton had cleared the decks" for the
national amendment.
Wet Advocates Pleased.
Many of the wet advocates in con-
gress, particularly those with brewers
among their constituents, also de-
cared themselves much pleased with
the outcome The brewers are un-
derstood to have been in favor of the
provision. both because II would cur
tail the so-called mail order business
carried on by houses dealing in spirit
uouS liquors, and because 1t might
prevent states now wet from going dry
and indefinitely postpone nationwide
prohibition.
Nhiskey Men Oppose.
DistillerS and whiskey dealers. on
the other hand, were vigorously op-
posed to this proposal There are at
this time, Representative Shirley of
Kentucky declared during debate,
more than 22S.000,000 gallons of
LIQUOR in bond in the United States
and 40 per cent of such liquor hereto
fore has been sold IN partially dry ter
ritory, Under the amendment con-
Cured in today. all of this must be
sold in absolutely wet territory, prob
ably, he argued, at great loss. Mr..
Shirley made u futile attempt to
amend the proposal by extending the
time when it would go into force for
one year.
states Becoming Dry.
In several states the Reed amend
ment would anticipate action by the
state legislatures. Arkansas, Arizona,
Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee
and Washington, all have "bone dry
laws already in operation or to be-