Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-02-27
Prohibits Sale and Manufacture
of Any Liquor Containing
More Than Half of One Per
Cent Alcohol After July
OPPOSITION APPEARS
Measure Is Introduced i'm House Pro-
viding One Cent Letter Postage After
January I, I022-Labor Opposes Re-
peal of Daylight Saving Bill

Washington, Feb. 27-Legislation draft
ed by the House judiciary committee for
enforcement of the wartime prohibition
law which becomes effective July / was
reported to the House to-day. At the
same time a minority opposition report
was filed by Representative Steele Of
Pennsylvania who said passage Of the
bill would be a 'usurpation of power"
and that during the period of national
readjustment the legislation would add
much to Fthe spirit of unrest"
The bif prohibits the sale and manu-
facture of any liquor containing more
than one-half of one per cent. of alcohol
under penalty of fines or imprisonment
or both, and also provides that the
owner of any building in which liquor
is made or sold may be penalized.
Washington, Feb. 6.-Representative
Mansfield Of Texas introduced 4 bill
to-day to reduce the postal rates on first
class mail. Under his measure, drop
letters. after January l next would be
| at rate Of one cent an ounce with other
letters at a rate of two cents, and after
January l. 1922, the rate on all letters
would require one cent an ounce.
Washington, Feb. 26-Decision as 70
| the continuance of the food administra-
| tion's minimum hog price policy after
midnight Friday, expected to-day by
| Frank S. Snyder, chief Of the meat
division, will not be made until Presi-
dent Wilson has determined the question
| of embargoes affecting neutrals and other
| countries This became known tonight
liter food administration officials had
conferred with the War Trade Board
| and later with President Wilson at the
White House during the meeting of the
war cabinet"
| Washington. Feb. 26.-Prediction Of
| labor leaders that a national daylight
saving law making all working hours
| daylight hours would minimize indus
| trial accidents was borne out in the last
! said, said Frank Morrison, secretary Of
| the American Federation of Labor in a
statement to-day urging the law be not
| repealed. Mr.. Morrison cited statistics
! on industrial accidents in Pennsylvania
showing that in 1918 under operation Of
the daylight saving law the number OF
| accidents was 1886 fewer than in 1917
| Washington, Feb. 26.-Governors of
Is Sattes. lieutenant-gov of two
others and mayors of 81 cities thus
far have accepted the invitation Of
Secretary of Labor Wilson to attend
the White House conference to dis
cuss business and labor problems Of
the reconstruction period Secretary
Of Labor Wilson will open the con-
ference at 10 o'clock Monday morning
and President Wilson viii address the
gathering half an hour later.
| Governors who have sent their ac-
| I'M Of
Edge of New Jersey and Sproul of
Pennsylvania.
Washington, Feb. 26.-Representa-
tives of Massachusetts and New York
market garden interests were given a
hearing to-day at the department OF
agriculture in protest against the pro-
posal to embargo transportation of
herbsceous plants from those States to
ch eek the spread of the European corn
borer. The department was asked n
confine any quarantine to small areas
said to be infected No decision was
ANNOUNCED.
Washington. Feb. 26-Congress was
a slSed to-day by Secretary Baker for = de-
fcency appropriation of $500 327, 200 to pay
for the subsistence of the army overseas
during the remainder of the present fiscal
year. The law recently passed by Con-
gress repeating fifteen billion dollars Of
war appropriations. cancelled S2,99G, 100000
Of tho s5,451 ,00o, ooo APPROPRIATION carried
for the querterrnaster corps, and the
secretary explained that this large re-
duction caused the deficit.
Washington, Feb, o6-Wtth adoption by
the Senate and House to-day of the con-
ference report on the SOS, 100000 legislative
executive and judicial appropriation bin
the measure which provides for salaries
of most federal officers, was ready for
President wilson's signature. The bills
provisions include those for continuation
of sub-treasuries in nine cities and for
pay increases Of s2io yearly for govern
ment employees