The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-06-27

JNE 27, 1919.
GRAFTON, and certain hours of the day
are set aside when vaccination will
be made.
Come to Glasgow July 9TH
LAW ALLOWS PRIVATE STOCKS.
Washington, June 25.-A mans
right to store liquor in his home after
July l stood up yesterday against
an attack on that provision of the
prohibition enforcement bill before the
house judiciary committee.
Near the end of an all-day session
teh committee voted down an amend
ment which would have made it un-
lawful for citizen to have liquor in
his possession; struck out a section
which would have prevented fuse" by
citizen Of liquor in his private dwell
ling and decided that in the matter of
general enforcement there would be
no difference between wartime prohi-
bition and constitutional prohibition.
Even with changes, the bill as it
will be reported is considered all en-
bracing. So drastic are its provisions,
members of the committee said that
while a man may put keg of beer
in his cellar he may be convicted and
fined if, for instance, he wears a
watch fob on which there is a picture
of the keg as an advertisement.
In general consideration of the mea-
sure the committee made number of
minor changes, but the joint fight was
over the questio nof the right of home
storage for personal use. Represen-
tative Morgan, republican, Oklahoma,
endeavored to have stricken out the
section reading that "it shall not be
unlawful to possess liquor in ones
private dwelling while the same is
occupied and used by him only as his
dwelling.
Ardent prohibitionists on the COM
mittee voted against the Morgan pro-
posal for the reason, they said, that
nothing was to be gained by enacting
a law so drastic as to arouse the hos
tility of people who rejoiced that the
day of the saloon had ended. Prohibi-
tion members supported an amendment
eliminating the proviso that that the
liquor must be obtained and placed in
storage prior to date the act would
become effective. As amended the
section reads "that such liquor need
not be reported, provided the burden
of showing that possession is legal
is upon the possessor."
Representative Gard, democrat, of
Ohio, led the fight to strike from the
bill the word "use" as applied to the
right of home consumption. His mo-
tion to amend also included the strik-
ing out of the words "give away" ire
ceive," and possess" but the COM
mittee insisted that these should stand.
1t was said there was no particular
fight on Mr.. Cards proposal, and as
amended the section stands:
"That no person shall on or after
the date when the eighteenth amend
ment to the constitution of the United
States goes into effec, nor while the
war prohibition act shall be in force,
manufacture, sell, barter, give away,
transport, import, export, deliver, fur
nish, receive or possess any intoxicat-
ing liquor except as authorized in this
act, and all the provisions of this act
shall be literally construed to the end
that Intoxicating liquor as bever-
beverage purposes and wine for sac
age may be prohibited. Liquor for non-
ramental purposes may be purchased,
sold, transported and used as herein
provided"
Every person legally permitted to
have liquor is required to report to
the proper authorities within ten days
after the passage of the act, and pos
session after that date "by any per-
son not legally permitted under this
title to possess liquors" shall be re-
garded as evidence that it is kept for
purposes of sale. This dies not apply
to home stocks.
The bill's definition of what is in
toxicating liquor-any beverage or
product containing more than one-half
of one per cent alcohol-was retain
ed. 1t was said that members of the
committee discussed this section at
length, some contending that if one
congress undertook to define intoxicat-
ing liquors as one-half of one per cent
another congress could come along and
make it four per cent, or any figure
it chose. There was a danger, men,
bers said, that prohibition would get
into politics.
Representative Gard, appointed last
year with Chairman Volstead and Rep
resentative Whaley, South Carolina,
to draw up bill for enforcement of
wartime prohibition, endeavored to