Arizona republican., 1919-06-27
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 BY LABOR DAY
One Law in Three Parts Covers Dry Enforcement Believe Authority Now Sufficient to Punish, Even If Present Legislation is Delayed /
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WASHINGTON. June 2S.-Wartime prohibition will become effective nexr Monday at midnight, without enact ment. meanwhile, by congress. of ad- ditional legislation for it's enforcement Out Of q maze of confusing develop ments, this fact stood out clearly to- day, with the decision of the house ju- dietary committee. charged with the duty of preparing and submitting en- forcement machinery. to report three bills in one. each standing on it's own legs, and capable of holding it's own m the event the others were made in valid by congress or the courts. Chairman Nolstead of the commit tee declared tonight there was no pos sibility of passage of the joint measure before July l, but that there existed ample means of enforcement and am pie penalties for violation of the war time act.
 Law Is Sufficient
 The full and explicit definition of intoxicating liquors-any beverages or products containing more than one half of one per cent alcohol-set by the bureau of internal revenue, left no | doubt, he said. as to how the courts would construe the law or deal with ] ! by prohibition members of the com 1 mittee to conceal their satisfaction in l having ordered three bills sent to the house in one, so as to prevent more 1 than one fight Some members in | timated that the title one. the wartime enforcement measure, would still be
 unpassed when actual wartime pro | hibition was declared ended. It was pointed out by others that the flaw
 made it mandatory on the president To say when demobilization was com pleted which would automatically per init saloons to resume operations until | January Is, when constitutional pIo hibition will become effective.
 Members of the judiciary committee said it was inconceivable that demo-
 bilization would be delayed beyond
 the middle of January. While they did
 not look for action by the president this week or next, the general view was
 that with the signing of the treaty bs Germany, and the government as
 sured of speedy Rehabilitation. is-
 suance of the presidents proclamation might not be held up longer than Labor
 Day at the latest. Indeed. it appeared to be the opinion among many mem
 bers of the house that saloons in cities
 where the sale Of liquor now is per mitted, will be serving drinks much sooner than the public imagines. Law In Three Parts As the prohibition enforcement measure finally is put in shape fH the house, it will be divided into three
 parts, or titles; first, general enforce ment of wartime prohibition, effective on approval; second, constitutional
 prohibition; third, regions for the man ufacture of industrial alcohol, he lat ter two effective January 16. 1920. } For the first part, the committee de- cided to substitute bodily the bill in 1 troduced yesterday by Representative
 Gard, democrat of Ohio, this being the measure proposed last winter by Mir Gard, Chairman Volstead and Repre- T sentative. Whaley of South Carolina l It stands alone and its provisions are , less drastic than the constitutional ) bill.
 f Title two is the straight VOlstead :, bill, endorsed by anti-hquor organiza t tions, and regarded as the most drastic = measure of the kind. ever put before e congress.
 Title three, the Dyer bill, relates tc . industrial alcohol, it's manufacture ano :. regulations. In one respect, the agree
 ment of members as to the policy t
 be adopted today, changed over night
 When it came to straight vote or
 the proposal by Representative Walsh
 republican of Massachusetts, to re
 port out the Gard bill separately, tho committee refused, 10 to s. A momeni
 later, it voted 10 to s, to substitute tho Il Gard measure bodily as the wartime enforcement plan, and to bu--S al
 three bills.
 House May Fight Bill
 The fact, however, that the commit e tee finally reached a definite agree . ment as to procedure does not meaf
 that a solid front will be shown il
 the house, because it was said tonigh
 that minority report would be sub.
 mitted. Just what this was, member, l. declined to state, but it was reporte, o that anti-prohibition members woul, n attack provisions in the constitutions - prohibition measure, and others woul, l. attempt to exempt light wines and bee 2 from operation of the wartime act = "The house is drier than the com g mittee,' as some members expresse, II it, which was taken to mean that ther S. would be no let down, and that whil h. fight was to be expected on the gen n eral enforcement law, the radical pro
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