Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-21
DELAY WORKING
OF BONE DRY
law TOJlAY |
Congressman Postpone Opera.
ton of Postal Bill Amend.
ment for Four Months


With the prohibition question one
OF the big measures that the present
legislature is considering in Senate
Bill 33, which would put the matter TO
a vote of the people, word from WASH
ington that operation Of the bone
dry" amendment to the postal bill has
been suspended until July will be Of
interest here at this time. If the local
bin passes the vote will be taken
here On July II. II. r. 49,.
This amendment is the one to which
President Chillingworth called the at
tention of the senate on the day the
vote to adopt was taken in the up
per house. The New York Times
prints the following Washington des-
patch under date of March 5, regard
ing 1t:
by a vote of 2s4 to So the house
tonight adopted q joint resolution sus-
pending the operation Of the bone
dry" amendment in the postoffice ap-
preparation bill until July of this
year. This action was taken as soon
as word reached the Capitol that Pres
ident Wilson had signed the postoffice
budget with the legislative rider pro-
hibiting the circulation of liquor ad-
yertising in dry" territory and for
bidding the interstate shipment of H.
quor to prohibition states, even where
state laws permit limited shipments
to dry" territory.
The joint resolution was presented
by Chairman Moon Of the postoffice
committee. Action In the senate, how.
ever, now appears doubtful, and
should the senate fail to act upon the
resolution the house construction OF
the postoffice budget L. that the.
'bone-dry" amendment is now IN eff
feet. n. q - -,
Congressman Kitchin, the majority
leader, supported the resolution to
suspend operation Of the amendment
for four months. - Z
The impression was,"a he said,
that this amendment did not become
effective until the postoffice bill for
the next fiscal year went into effect
on July /. However. the legislation In
the bill is effective now, and 1t is but
right that the newspapers carrying II
Quor advertisements, the concerns get
ting out, circulars to the trade, and
the distillers themselves should be
given little time. The average pro-
hihitionist wants to be fair, and It is
only fair to extend the operation Of
this amendment for few months In
order that justice may be done to all"
Congressman Cox, an Indiana Demo
crat, said that to put the ''bone-dry"
law into effect at once would be IN
just TO the distlllers, and also to nu-
merous banks which were carrying the
commercial paper Of distillers. Mr..
Cox estimated that millions of dol
lars worth of whisky and liquors were
I'm bond, and li,at the paper.
In the hands OF bankers throughout
the country would aggregate $500. 000,.
600. sa5 IN s-.g
II this 'bone-dry' amendment goes
into effect with the signing of the
BILL" he said, ''it is possible that
some bank wifi be forced to the wall
Only Sc of the extreme prohibition
lists of the house held out against the
joint resolution on the final roll call.
However, one Of these said afterward
that he expected the defeat of the sus-
pension resolution in the senate.
IF the prohibition states are to be
'bone-dry,, let them be so from this
minute on" exclaimed this unyielding
prohibitionist.
Unless the senate should adopt the
Moon resolution It IL unlawful from
this date for papers, post cards, circu-
lars and periodicals containing liquor
advertising to circulate in states
which forbid the advertising and so
liciting of orders for liquors, nor may
any liquor be shipped into any state
which has passed law forbidding the
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