The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-22
PROHIBITIONISTS ADVANCE.
House Receives Favorable Report on
Constitutional Amendment.

Washington, Feb. 15.-Prohibition
took a step forward today in both
branches of congress.
In the senate drastic amendments
to the postal appropriation bill were
agreed to making criminal the i'm
portation of liquor into States which
prohibit it's manufacture and sale
for beverage purposes and which ex-
clude liquor advertisements from the
mails in States which legisiate
against such advertising. On the
house side the national prohibition
constitutional amendment was favor
ably reported from the judiciary
committee with prediction by Chair
man Webb that it would be passed
within a week. Champions of prohi-
bitiin greeted this announcement
with enthusiasm in spite of their
realization that passage in the house
will end action on the amendment in
so far as this session Of congress is
concerned There is no thought of
action by the senate before March 4,
when the Sixty-fourth congress dies.
The amendment to the postofflce
appropriation bill to make it crime
to ship liquor into prohibition States
was added by Senator Reed, of Mis-
souri,. to the Jones amendment bar
ring newspaper or other publications
or letters and postal cards contain
ing LIQUOR advertisements from the
mails in States which have laws
against such advertising. 1t was
adopted after brief debate by vote
of As to II by the senate sitting as
q committee of the whole.
The Reed amendment, which
awaits final vote in the senate is as
follows.
"Whoever shall order, purchase or
cause intoxicating liquors to be
transported in interstate commerce
except for scientific, sacramental,
medicinal or mechanical, purposes in
to any State or territory the laws of
which State or territory prohibit the
manufacture and sale for beverage
purposes shall be punished by fine
of not more than $1,000, or impris-
oned not more than six months, or
both and for any subsequent offense
shall be imprisoned not more than
one year."
The effect of this provision if final
ly accepted by the senate and agreed
by the house will be to make all pro-
hibition States ''bone dry 1t will
operate against provisions in various
States permitting importation of linn
tied amounts of liquor for individual
consumption.
The original Jones amendment to
bar newspaper and other liquor ad-
yertisements from the mails in States
providing anti-liquor advertising laws
attaches the same penalties as pro-
vided in the Reed amendment. Un-
der this provision no newspaper,
pamphlet, letter, postal card, circu-
lar or publication of any kind con-
tanning liquor advertisements could
be mailed into dry States. To pre-
vent prosecution of innocent persons
the measures explicitly state that
eff the publisher of any newspaper
or other publication or the agent of
such publication or if any dealer in
such liquors or his agent shall know
ingly" cause liquor advertisements
to be mailed in violation of the pro-
posed law, he shall be guilty of vio-
lating the law.
Representative Randall, of Califor-
MIA, announced the passage of the
Jones amendment in the house late
today and gave notice that he would
ask the house to concur in the
amendment when the bill is returned
from the senate.