Evening star., 1919-07-20
DRyS RULE HOUSE
IN LONG CONFLICT
Resist All Attempts to Soften
Enforcement; Night ses-
sion Late.
HOME WINE, CIDER BANNED

provisions of the enforcement bill,
the prohibition forces in the House
last night romped through sne meas
ure paragraph by paragraph, putting
the lid on debate at the nod of Chair
man volstead. The House adjourned
at 1926 o'clock without completing
the bill.
The prohibitionists took command
at once when the House met at noon
even refusing five minutes for Chair
man Good Of the appropriations COM
mittee to bring up an important
money measure.
While the House was knocking
down amendment after amendmen,
designed to liberalize the measure
Representative Igoe, democrat, OF
Missouri. announced he would offel
a substitute that could be enforced
without the expenditure of $50. 900,
600 and without a standing army"
There is no provision in the Igoe
bill for enforcement OF wartime pro.
hibitfon, nor does it define intoxicat.
ing liquors, and persons manufactur-
ing, selling. Importing OF exporting
liquors. would be subject to $500
fine and one years Imprisonment TO,
the first offense. d, 20
Confusion Frequent.
There was the utmost confusion at
times during the day, and often half
a dozen were asking recognition with
SO much clatter somesmembers COM
planned they did not know what the
House was doing. Several amend
ments offered by Chairman Volstead
of the judiciary committee, in charge
of the bill, went through. The House
also accepted one by Representative
Miller. republican, of Washington. re-
quiring doctors issuing whisky pre-
scriptions at drug store offices to have
maintained such offices for a period of
one year prior to passage OF the bill.
The search and seizure section, de-
scribed as the bills most drastic
provision was approved~'with added
restrictions.
Strictness Alarms "Drys."
BY vote of 7s to 70 an amend
ment designed to protect from inva-
sion a home in the same building
with store in which liquor was sold
was defeated over the protest of a
few ardent prohibitionists, who de-
clared there was danger OF Congress
going too far. On the <heels of this
the House adopted, 71>'to 81. an
amendment which, would permit
search of private dwelling used for
the sale of intexicants.
Chairman volstead declared the
search and seizure section had been
the .bugaboo" of the whole enforce
ment discussion, and that the, only
things that could be taken away
after search were liquor and imple
ments for it's manufacture.
A fightsto amend the provision which
would require physicians prescribing
whisky to write on the prescription
the patients ailment was led by Rep
resentative Treadway. republican
Massachusetts. He said it was appar.
ent the.House was bent ;on passing
the bill, drastic provisions and all. but
warned that the House was going too
far in requiring, that persons all
ment be placed on record. The amend
ment was defeated. 62to ss.-
!, = Denies Medicinal Value.
sSThe attitude of the dry" forces. was
indicated by Chairman -volstead dur
ing consideration of the SECTION relat-
ing TO liquor4drinking 1on trains, and
boats.- Representative Gard. demo-
crat. of Ohio. Insisted that the word
'psiblicty's should be added because as
the section stood it would be a.crime
for q sick or dying person to be, given
a drink on a train.
mo occasion ever arises when liquor
is really needed, as a medicine" said
Mr.. Volstead. ss
The House defeated the amendment,
but later, upon Mr.. Volstead's motion,
it amended the section to make it .".un-
lawful for any person to drink Aquor
as a beverage or to he Intoxicated"
on a public conveyance.
No Domestic. Manufacture.
p Iffer the chair had ruled out an
amendment by Representative Fitz.
gerald, democrat, OF Massachusetts,,
which world have permitted a man
to make wine and cider in his own
home. Chairman Volstead tried to
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