The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-15
REFUSE ID PERMIT
 A VOTE ON MOTION ID REPEAL WAR TIME PROHIBITION LAW
Prohibitionists Stand Solidly Against Attacks on En- forcement Measure and Defeat ? 3-4 Per Cent
 Beer Amendment
Bv Associated rresa

By Associated press
 Washington, July 14.-Pro- hibition forces took full con trol in the House today, refused to Sermit a vote on the motion to repeal the war time act, de- feated overwhelmingly an amendment providing for ths sale of 2 3-4 per cent beer, and stood solidly against all at tacks on the general enforce ment measure.
 Just fast "liberar' amend ment was offered by opponents of pro- hibition, 1t was voted down without ceremony, always by triple vote, for the minority, fighting every inch of ground, demanded n division after the ayes and nays were called, and then asked for teliers.. Before the House got through with the first section of the first part of the three-part bill there was more disorder on the floor than at any time this session.
 This disturbance arose first during an attempt by Representative Blan- ton, democrat, Texas, to speak sec ond time against an amendment which would have given jury the right to define intoxicants, and was increased during an address by Representative Gallivan, democrat. Massachusetts, who declared members voting dry should print in the Congressional Record ex actly how much liquor they had stored i'll their homes and offices.
 FIGHT OVER DEFINITION The real battle of the day. howevet was over the amendment to defire irtoxicant as beverage containing 1 than 2& percent alcohol instead of than la of percent as written in ths | Representative Dyer, republicans. souri, author of the amendment, ii ot ask for this definition in the constitlGsol al prohibition anfcrdment. but sia4E gin the war-tinle law. In pleading fes i adoption MT. Dyer declared 1t
 what President Wilson had reectn
 mended to Congress, and would egs
 init, during the remaining perIoa l war-tim prohibition. the sale of zH' wines and beer and might delay ssH' ance of proclamation by the iai 1 dent which would restore the sa M | hard" liquors.
 There was round of speech 1 ing on this motion, with the "n
 assailng it as an entering wedge
 the vets" asserting that it tis l merely permit the very thing the tsF l dent as commander-in chief of tAe ! army. had said was best for the 'siaS l try for the next six months.
 I After 234 per cent beer had nseit 1 bowled over by a record vote of 151 to {, 90-and this was about the relative division on all amendments-the pro- 1 hibtonists went after another amead- ment by Representative Igoe, democrat ! of Missouri, which would have strick- ' en out all definition of intoxicants, lNkilling the proposal l2s to s3. ! There was the utmosa confusion at ! times despite vigorous whacks ith a | gavel and some of the prohibition 1 leaders applauded every move in their ] favor. The galleries, filled largely
 with women and officers of anti-liquor ! organizat toins, broke into applause ! when the House roared it's disapproval
 of 2A per cent beer.
 MANY MOTIONS KILLED 1 And then when 1t seemed the majority
 was weary of voting down every pro- posal by the other side. points of order 1 were raised. and some motions. designed | to make the law less drastic. were picked 1 up by the nape of the neck, as mem l bers expressed It., and bodily thrown out. 2 This happened to an amendment by Rep resentatfve Lea democrat of California { 1 in the interest of grape growers, who
 stood to lose sie,0oo,0c0 this year, he said. ] It provided for the manufacture of wine containing II per cent alcohol by weight A point of ordsr against it was sustained l by the char.
 ! There were other points of order on 1 other proposals, but the one by Repre- sentative Pell, democrat New York. | ,l,5,. Iat ina ior pf n {, toxicatng qualities of certain beverages l up to a jury. was ruled in order only to 1 be knocked out on an aye and nay vote, / d division. and again after the call for tellerS and the slow march of members 1 through the center aisle Of the chamber
 10 be counted This was the usual pro ceeding. the ''wets" always being able 1 to muster enough of their members to | support the demand.
 When the House got through with the l jury proposal it went after an amend ment by Representative Longworth, = 1 publican of Ohio to strike out the w-iol~ | oi the first section of the wartime en- 1 forcement bill, with it's one-haif of per | cent alcoholic definition. In offering the
 amendment Ms. Longwo,h frankly told the House that if it go, by he would | move to strike out the whole wartime l title, so. like man who wanted to save | himself a second job. the House de | feated it.
 1 Two minor amendments ran the block |! aGe, one being passed on record vote when the forces split to such an extent ] bat Chairman Nolstead of the judiciary committee leader of the prohibition | fight, was counted with leaders of the minority. This was an amendment. by Representative Benson, democrat, Mary land, to change the word liquors.s to
 beverages. It seemed a small matter, some members said, but they contended that it would permit the sale of flavoring extracts. hair tonics. and the like. against which a flight had been made l committee because of the reported ten.
 dency of some folk to drink them. The
 vote was Ss to 7s and anti-prohibition forces said tonight they doubted if the
 factions would be that close together
 again The other amendment made a slight change in the bills wording. MANY REFERENCES TO WILSON
 There were many references to Presi- dent Wilson during the debate, and sew eral speakers read that seet.on of .s-s
 message recommending repeal of the wartime law so far as it relates to the
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