Mohave County miner., 1917-03-03
TWO VICTORIES
ARE SCORED BY
DRY" FORCES

tionists won a double victory in con
gress tonight when the house passed
by vote of 279 to 1877 the senate
bill to make the national capital "dry'
and the senate and. house conferees or
the postal appropriation bill unexpect,
edly announced an agreement under
which the "bone dry" amendment is
virtually assured of enactment.
Hope of agreeing on the postal sup
ply measure had been abandoned by
the conferees, who last night submit
ted a resolution to continue the exist
ing postal appropriation for another
year. Tonight, however, they got to-
gether on a report which includes the
Reed amendment, prohibiting ship
men of liquor into prohibition states,
and which they expect to present to
both houses tomorrow or Friday. The
leaders thought tonight there was no
doubt of its passing in the senate and
house. They are taking it for grant
ed, too, that President Wilson will ap-
prove both that and the District of
Columbia prohibition bill.
The debate on the measure had been
limited by the drastic rule under which
it had been brought up, so that the
usual dramatic features of filibuster-
ing strategy were replaced by long
roll calls forced by the opposition on
repeated motions to adjourn, points of
no quorum, amendment and motions
to give some other bill the right of
way. After several hours the prohibi-
ton champions despaired of passing at
all the house bill reported from the
District of Columbia committee with
numerous amendments, and adopted
special rule substituting the senate
bill.
Chairman Henry of the rules COM
mittee led the fight for the "wets."
A member for 20 years and the vet
eran of many floor battles, he went in
to the fight today representing only
a small minority of his committee.
He succeeded in keeping the bill from
coming up on the floor until after
noon by filibustering on a minor
judgeship measure. He had handful
of other bills ready to bring up when
Representative Harrison, another
of the rules committee, took
the floor from him and in behalf of the
rule under which the dry bill, framed
by the district committee, was to be
considered.
Mr.. Henry protested that undue
haste should not be exercised in per-
fecting such an important measure,
and Mr.. Harrison replied:
ave are willing to sit here with
you, gentlemen, until the fourth of
March, if necessary, in order to per-
feet this bill"
Cheers greeted this declaration and
broke out internationally during the
long struggle that followed, so that
speaker clark had to admonlSh the
crowded galleries several times
against applauding.
Representative Gallivan of Mass
achusetts charged the Democratic
leaders with trucking to Representa-
tive Randall of California, the only
prohibition member, because the lat
ter was one of the independent group
who constituted the balance of power
in the organization of the next house.
While the voting was in progress in
the house William ]. Bryan walked
into the house press gallery, watched
the proceedings for a while and then
went down to the speakers lobby and
talked with a number of friends
among the members.
II was in on the killing" he said,
after the final vote. Gust say for me
that said delighted"