Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-08-12
Measure Now Before Senate Judiciary Committee in Main
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HOME MANUFACTURE OF
 LIGHT WINES PASSED
$3,OOO,0OO Fund is Provided for En- fOrcement of Measure the First Year-Other Altered
 Provisions.

other step in congress today when the senate judiciary committee began consideration of the bill passed by the house last June was amended and liberahzezd by the judiciary sub-con- mittee.
 Although the general house plan for enforcement of war time and con stitutional prohibition remain in the bill, the subcommittee eliminated several drastic house provisions and modified others. In it's work, the b-committee, comprising Senators Sterling, republican of South Dakota, chairman; Fall, of New Mexico, and Norris of Nebraska, republicans ard Overman of North Carolina, Walsh of Montana, and King of Utah, demo- crats, first revised the senate en- forcement bill and then incorporated their amendments in the house bill, reporting the latter as amended by unanimous vote to the full com- mittee.
 Like the house, the senate sub ing separate sections in the bill to al prohibition.
 The subcommittee left unchanged the house definition of intoxicating beverages as those containing one half of one per cent or more of al cohol.
 Search Less Drastic.
 As revised, the bill will not inter fere with storage and personal use of intoxicating liquors in the homes of individuals.
 Probably the most liberal amend ment in the house bill is a provision exempting from penalties any per son manufacturing non-intoxicatlng cider and fruit juices exclusively for use in his house." This would permit home manufacture of light wines and cidersfor personal consumption and the amendment, except by innplica- tion in connection with the definition of intoxicants does not define "non- intoxicating" beverages.
 Stricken from the house bill was the provision making it unlawful for persons to be intoxicated or to drink liquor on trains, street cars, jitneys, boats or other public conveyance.
 Another liberalization is a provis- ion that reports of manufacture, sale and transportation of liquor, made to the internal revenue collector, shall not be open to inspection of the gen. eral public but kept solely for scrut- iny of the commissioner, his agents, court or other officers.
 The house search warrant provis- ion also was made less drastic, the subcommittee amending the search and seizure sections so as to provide 1, that search warrants may be issued only under the usual practice provid- ed by existing federal law and not on mere suspicion that liquor is being stored for unlawful purposes.
 Big Enforcement Fund.
 Instead of the house bills unlimit- ed provision for funds to enforce pro- hibition, the subcommittee fixed $3,- 500,0O0 for the first years enforce ment work, and leaves this duty jointly to the internal revenue com missioner and the department of jus tice. The former is to report and the latter to prosecute violations.
 In defining intoxicating liquor, the subcommittee added the. following liberalizing proviso:
 Provided, however, that the fore going definition tone half of one per cent alcohoD shall not extend to de- alcoholized wine nor to any liquor or liquors produced by the process by which beer, ale, or porter is manu- factured but containing not more than one half of one per cent of all cohol if such liquor or liquid shall be otherwise denominated than as beer, ale or porter" This proviso rejects the request of prohibition advocates for prohibition of beverages which have the appearance of intoxicants.
 Another relaxation of the house bill was made in it's provision for penalizing persons having Treason to believe" their property is being used unlawfully. The senate amend ment requires "personal knowledge" of such use.
 The house provision declaring that after February l. 1920, the possess ion of liquor unauthorized by the law shall be prima facie evidence that it is being kept for sale is retained and strengthened by an addition provid-l ing that, in proceedings under this section, the burden of proof shall be on defendants to prove that such beverages do not contain more than one half of one per cent alcohol
 Exemptions Many.
 The sub.committee revision retains the following exemptions, as provided by the house: Denatured alcohol, medicinal preparations, patent medi- cines, toilet and medicinal prepara- tions, flavoring extracts, syrups, vinegar and fruit juices. The sub- committee, however, struck out the house clause that such articles should be mon portable" prescribing merely that they shall be unfit for bever- age purposes"
 A house clause requiring alcoholic content of toilet, medicinal and an- tiseptic articles to be labelled was stricken out. Retaining the house