The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-02-27
GEORGIANS LINE UP
BEHIND AMENDMENT
PASSED BY AN OVERWHELMING
VOTE-HOWARD CRITICISED
OPPONENTS IN ANTI-SALOON
LEAGUE-CRISP TALKED.

WASHINGTON, D.. C.-Prohibi-
tionists in congress were overioyed
at the -to-1 victory in the house this
afternoon for the Reed-Bankhead
amendment.
All the Georgia members were
present and voted for the amend
ment, which will make Georgia %bone
dry" The general consensus of opin-
ion among them is that an extra SEES
sion of the state legislature will not
be needed now to deal with the sub,
ject.
This was also the opinion of Thorn
as B. Fielder of Atlanta, who has been
most active in behalf of prohibition
legislation.
The adoption of this amendment
closes the mail to liquor advertise
ments addressed to citizens of dry
states, and also forbids the shipment
of liquor into prohibition territory"
said Mr.. Fielder.
Not Quart of Month Prohibitionist.
Representative Charles R. Crisp.
IN an earnest plea in the house for
the adoption of the amendment, said
he did not see how any real prohibi-
zionist could vote against it. that in
his opinion its adoption would consti-
tute one of the greatest victories for
prohibition ever recorded in congress.
Il have been a consistent advocate
OF prohibition for twenty-five years."
said Representative Crisp. land have
voted for it in every form in which
the question was presented. | am
not quart month prohibitionist,
but would like to see the great state
OF Georgia dry in fact"
Representative William Schley
Howard paid his respects to the anti
saloon league crowd, who have op-
posed the amendment as being too
drastic.
''They might as we'll complain
against the bee that his honey is too
sweet, or against the hooking bird
that his notes are too melodious."
said Mr.. Howard "Those who did
not want this amendment never real
ly believed in prohibition, but used
this great movement as a subterfuge
to keep themselves in fat offices at
the expense of thousands of God
fearing and goodly women"
During the discussion in the sem
ate on the Reed amendment Senator
Smith said he heartily favored Geor-
gla becoming ''bone dry" The onlv
reason the legislature had not passed
such legislation before, he said, was
because the lawmakers thought it
would not be legal to outlaw inter
state shipments.
The false impression prevailed, >"
said Senator Smith, chat under the
Webb-Kenyon bill the legislature
could not entirely exclude from a
state shipments of liquor, and this
minimum amount was permitted to
come in under the belief that it was
essential to the constitutionality of
their action. | did not think so. I
have thought that they at the time
had the right to exclude all ship
ments. So far as I am concerned, I
am in favor of prohibition in my
state to keep them from drinking and
| am opposed to shipping in quart
packages. l am opposed to refusing
to allow it to be manufactured in the
the state and then letting somebody
ship it in from another state.
Il have not any doubt when the
legislature meets next summer they
will amend the present act and ex-
clude it altogether. The subject has
been agitated of even calling an ex-
ira session to exclude it between now
and the first of July. The advantage
of this provision is that it not only
puts the state behind the exclusion,
but it puts the United States govern
ment also behind the exclusion. It
makes it violation of the criminal
statutes of the United States also to
ship it in, and as 1 am glad to have
both agencies at work keeping it
out"