The Washington herald., 1918-09-24
BAN
APPROVED BY
LOWER HOUSE
Wartime Prohibition n
Amendment to Food Slim
ulation Bill Passes Senate.
WAIVE TREATY RIGHTS
Representatives Vote Inn
mediate Restrictions of
Wine Imports.
WAIVE TREATY RIGHTS

The wartime prohibition amend
ment to the food stimulation bill
was adopted by the House yester-
day by the vote of 134 to q. The
bill was then passed and sent to
conference by the vote of III to "a.
The final vote was not taken until
after D. m. more than four hours
of debate having been insisted upon
by advocates and opponents of the
measure.
The bill as passed prohibits the
manufacture and sale OF all intoxi-
ca nts after June 80 of next year.
The importation of wines and other
liquors from foreign countries will
be prohibited as soon as the meas
ure is approved by the President
An amendment to the bill. put in at
the request of the State Department,
to permit the importation of wines
until May 1 of next year. was re-
jected by the House by the vote of
SO to 131, upon motion of Mr..
Kahn, of California
Kahn Leads Fight.
This amendment was requested be-
cause of representations made to the
State department by the Ambassa-
doris of Italy, France, Spain and
the minister of Portugal. who con-
tended the section forbiding the i'm
portation of such wines would be in
contrayention OF the treaty rights
with those countries. Nevertheless,
Kahn insisted that n ths SAFE or ma
tive wines were stopped on July /,
II was not fair to the American wine
makers to permit the markets to be
flled with wine from other countries
up to within two months of the day
when all sales would be stopped
Mr. Kahn made hard fight to
have the prohibition on the sale of
wines postponed until December 81,
1873, but failed, his amendment be-
ing rejected by the vote of 50 to 112
"UncIe joe Defeated.
All other attempts to amend the
Senate provision were voted down,
by practically the same vote. Mr..
Gordon of Ohio wanted to incorpor-
ate provision guaranteeing the
payment Of compensation to the
liquor men, and Mr.. Cannon sought
to strike out the provision empow-
erfng the President to establish
DRY zones" around munitions
plants and shipyards: he insisted
that this matter was already COW
cred by the Kellogg resolution
which Congress passed and the
president has signed; but the ma
Jorlty OF the House took the posi-
non that no harm could be done by
re-enacting the provision in another
way.
Navy sieEes whiskey,
In the long debate on the bill the
principal speeches against prohfbitton
were by Mr.. Kahn, Mr.. Meeker of
missouri; Mr.. SABBATH, of Illinois. Mr.,
Gordon, Of Ohio, and Mr.. Gallagher
OF Illinois. Mr.. Kahn enlivened the
debate by reading letters exchanged
between Surgeon General BraIsted Of
the Navy Department and himself
on the subject of the seizure Of q
quantity Of whisky in Seattle and its
utilization by the navy. The SURGEON
General wrote in response to an in
quiry by Mr.. Kahn that the whisky
had been taken over upon the order
Of Secretary Daniels and was being
used for medicinal purposes Tor tbe
men Of the fleet.
Mr.. Kahn quoted the letter by wav
Of refuting the claim of the prohIbi-
tions leaders that whisky is poison
Gus.
Meeker Makes Charges.
Mr.. Meeker and Mr.. Decker, both
from Missouri, came dangerously near
to blows following utterances of the
charge by Mr.. Meeker that the Anti
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