Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-08-12
SENATE TO TAKE
UPPROH|b|T|ON
BILL FOR ACTION
Sub Committee "PuIIs Teeth
of More Drastic Provisions
Of Measure Passed In
House.
(BY Associated Press)

Washington, Aug. ll.-Prohibi
ton enforcement legislation ad
vanced another step in congress TO-
day. when the senate judiciary com
mittee began consideration of tht
bill passed by the house last Jun.
as amended and liberaii- ed by thu
judiciary subcommittee.
The subcommittee eliminated sew
eral drastic house provisions anc
modified others. In its work the
subcommittee, comprising Senator:
Sterling. republican, South Dakota
chairman; Fall of New Mexico and
Norris of Nebraska, republicans, and
Overman of North Carolina, Walsh
of Montana and King of Utah. dem
ocrats, first revised the senate en-
forcement bill and then incorporated
their amendments in the house bill
The subcommittee left unchanged
the house definition of Intoxicating
beverages as those containing one
half of l per cent or more of alcohol
May Make Own Liquor.
As revised. the bill will not inter
fere with storage and personal use
of Intoxicating liquors in homes.
Probably the most liberal amend
ment to the house bill is provision
exempting from penalties any per-
son "manufac turing Notwithstanding
cider and fruit juices exclusively for
use in his house. This would per-
nit home manufacture of light wines
and cider for personal consumption
and the amendment, except by i'm
plication in connection with the
definition of intoxicants. does not
define notwithstanding beverages.
Stricken from the house bill was the
provision making it unlawful for
persons to be intoxicated or to drink
liquor on trains, street cars, jitneys,
boats or other public conveyances.
Another relaxation of the house
bill was made in Its provision for
penalizing persons having reason
to believe" their property is being
used unlawfully. The senate amend
ment requires personal knowledge"
of such use.
Strengthens House BillA
The house provision declaring
that after February |, 1920, the pos
session of liquor unauthorized by
the law shall be prima facie evidence
that it is being kept for sale, is re-
tanned and strengthened by an addi-
ton providing that, in proceedings
under this section, the burden OF
proof shall be on defendants to
prove that such beverages do not
contain more than one-half of one
per cent alcohol.
The subcommittee revision retains
the following exemptions, as pro-
vided by the house: Denatured al
cohol, medicinal preparations, patent
toilet and medicinal
favoring extracts,
syrups, vinegar and fruit juices: The
subcommittee, however, struck out
the house clause that such articles
should be Incompatible" prescribing
merely that they shall be unfit for
beverage purposes"
A house clause requiring alcoholic
content of toilet, medicinal and anti
septic articles to be labelled was
stricken out. Re tanning the house
provision prohibiting manufacture,
sale, purchase. transportation or
of intoxicants without
permit from the internal revenue
commissioner, the revised bill con-
tains provision that such acts shall
be expressly authorized upon receipt
of permits.
More regirous provisions guard
ing transactions in wines for sacra-
mental and religious purposes are
provided by a provision requiring
ssuances of such permits only to
rabbis or other ecclesias-
tics.