The Alaska daily empire., 1918-04-22
RECORD SHOWS SULzER IS FOR
 PROHIBITION
Mrs. Hatcher's Charges Exploded by Record of Committee Hearing
 in Congress.
HOUSTON IS SATISFIED
Chairman Approves Course Taken by Supporters of Full Territorial
 Bill.


 Bill.
 The record of the first hearing be- fore the Committee on Territories on the Sulzer full Territorial form of government bill explodes the con tention of the Wickersham Maloney combination that Delegate Sulzer is attempting to reopen the Prohibit tion question in Alaska, and stamps as absolutely false the declarations of Mrs. Hatcher
 | The following discussion of those portions of the full Territorial form of government bill as referred tc prohibition occurred during the statement made by John w. Troy. .; THE CHAIRMAN Some matters l have been called to my atention, and i l would like to call your attention to some inquiries that have beer made in reference to this bill For instance, in reference to sec i tion 12 of this bill, on page 10, | nave Dttl W ILtCn tO bS P'OpiN R r there who are prohibition people and are very much concerned in the enforcement of the prohibition laws and in maintaining prohibition ir Alaska. On page 10, in line ', il says:
 Provided further, That noth- | Ia hA1I 1 limit the power of the legisla-
 ture from passing laws to sub
 init to vote of the people of | Alaska the prohibition of the
 sale and manufacture of intox-
 icating liquor in the Territory.
 These people who are writing about this matter are cognizant o the prohibition law passed by Con gress which prevents the manufac' ture and sale of whisky in Alaska and they are alarmed for fear that this may open up that question ant put it in the hands of the legisla ture to do away with the nationa prohibition law and to defeat pro 1 hibition in that Territory
 MIR. TROY. That was not the in. tention, and I do not believe that MT. Sulzer or anybody interested il this bill would object to striking that from the bill. 1 do not thini i it adds to or detracts from the bill
 THE CHAIRMAN. It would re | lieve a great fear among a certain number of those people if that wero stricken out.
 MIR. SULZER. 1 would say, MT Chairman, that the people of Alas ka voted three to one for prohibi tion, and Congress, in due course passed a law providing for prohi- i bition for that Territory, and so fai as 1 have been apprised it is work i ing very well, and I think the peo pie want to continue it in force.
 When this bill was drawn, it wa feared if there was not something stated about it in the bill that crit icism would be made of the bil that we were leaving door oper l lOI tue ltS lSId lltl . tO ClidhSO th' i law which Congress had enacted and we put that in here so that they could not do that. Apparently some people are criticizing the bill be cause we tried to fix it so that tho law could not be changed except by Congress.
 MIR. TROY. That proviso ought to be read along with the provisC that begins at line on page 10:
 Provided, That nothing here
 in shall be held to limit the
 power of the legislature from
 passing laws for, the more eff fectual suppression of gambling; nor shall spirituous or intoxi- eating liquors be mannfactur-
 ed or sold, except under such regulations and restrictions as | Congress shall proviae.
 That was put in absolutely tt prevent the legislature from repeal ing the prohibition law passed b, Congress last winter. The othel provision was that the Legislature could submit the question to vot' of the people to ascertain the senti ment of the people of Alaska fol the information of Congress. Tha was what was intended to be reach ed by the proviso to which you re fer, and I think the Legislature would have the power to do tha anyway, without that proviso. think that proviso neither adds tt nor detracts from the bill, and w would be willing to have the pro viso referred to by the chairman stricken from the bill.
 In other territories, MT. Chair man, the prohibition and liquor question has been a matter left largely to the people. After putting in a proyiso limiting their power and preventing them from having any power over this question, we thought it would not be unwise to permit them to have power to al-