Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-15
Prohibition Forces in House De- feat Every Attack by
 the Antis
HOUSE IN UPROAR AS
 ADJOU OURNMENT IS TAKEN
GalIiyan of Massachusetts Charges That Some Members Voting Dry" Have Stock of
 Liquor.

Washington, July 14.-Prohibition forces took full control in the house today refused to permit vote on a stfaight-out motion to repeal the wartime act, defeated overwhelming ly an amendment providing for the sale of 2 3-4 percent beer, and stood solidly against all attacks on the general enforcement measure.
 Just as fast as one "liberal" amend ment was offered by opponents of pro- hibition, it was voted down without ceremony, always by triple vote, with the minority fighting every inch of ground. 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 that any time this session. The dis turbance arose first during an at- tempt by Representative Blanton, democrat of Texas, to speak second 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 exactly how much liquor they had stored in their homes and offices.
 Whack 2 3-4 Per Cent Beer. The real battle of the day, however was over the amendment to define an intoxicant as a beverage contain ing 2 3-4 per cent alcohol, instead of more than one half of one per cent, as written in the bill. Representa- tf1yo rnnrh1ioor of Missouri author of the amendment did not ask for this definition in the constitutional prohibition amendment but simply in the wartime law. In pleading for it's adoption, MT. Dyer declared it was what President Wilson had recommended to congress and would permit. during the remaining period Of war time prohibition, sales of light wine and beers and might delay is- suance of a proclamation by the president which would restore the sale of "hard" liquors.
 There was a round of speech-mak- ing on this motion, and hour of it, with the "drys' assailing it as an en- tering wedge, and the "wets" assert ing that it merely would permit the very thing the president, as com- mander-in- n-chief of the army, had said was best for the country for the next six months.
 After 2 3-4 per cent had been bowl ed over by a record vote of 151 to 90- and this was about the relative divis- ion on all amendments the prohibitionists went after another amendment bv Representative 1goe. democrat of Missouri which would have stricken out all definition of in- toxicants, killing the proposal, 128 to |83. <. Scene of Conf, r.
 There was so much Sion at times, despite vigorous kcks with gaval, and some of thesprohibition leaders applauded every move in their favor. The galleries. filled largely with women and officers of anti-liquor organizations, broke into applause when the house roared its disapproval of 2 3-4 per cent beer. .
 The chair was unable at times dur ing the speech of MT. Gallivan to pre- serve a semblance of order, and the galleries joined in the uproar. Stand ing in the center aisle. the Massa- chusetts member waived his arms like baseball pitcher warming up for game and shouted:
 "There are members who are not as dry as their statements on this floor might indicate and in their homes is liquor enough to last them ] 20 years"
 Instantly the house set up cry: "Name them: name them"
 of they weren't such good fellows I surely would" MT. Gallivan renlied.
 "Open your offices" he added 'and place in the Congressional Record statements of how much liquor you have and I will be satis- l fled" , There was su much confusion at this point that the house adjourned just before reaching section two of part one of the three-part bill. l