The Kendrick gazette., 1919-07-04
JULY | PROHIBITION
IN UNITED STATES
PRESIDENT WILSON WILL NOT
SUSPEND THE WARTIME
ORDER NOW.
ISSUES Statement TO PEOPLE
"Convinced ! Have No Legal Power"
He DISSATISFACTION Restricted
-Demobilization viii Give
Power to Act.

Power to Act.
! shington.-President Wilson has
announced that he would not suspend
operation of the wartime prohibition
law. effective Monday at midnight.
Secretary Tumulty gave out the fol-
lowing statement:
"The secretary to the president at
the White House made public the fol-
lowing cable from the president with
reference to wartime prohibition:
Has No Legal Power.
"I am convinced that the attorney
general is right in advising me that l
have no legal power at this time in
the matter of the ban on liquor Un-
der the act of November, 1918, my
power to take action is restricted. The
act provides that after June 30, 1919,
until the conclusion of the present war
and thereafter until the termination of
rehabilitation, the date Of which shall
be determined and proclaimed by the
president, it shall be unlawful, etc.
Will Act After DemobiIization
"'This law does not specify that the
ban shall be lifted with the signing of
peace, but with the termination of the
rehabilitation of the troops, and I can
not say that has been accomplished.
My information from the war depart
ment is that there are still a million
men in the service under the emer-
gency call. 1t is clear, therefore, that
the failure of congress to act upon the
: suggestion contained in my message
, of the Goth of May, 1919, asking for
repeal of the act of November 21, 1918,
so far as it applies to wines and beer,
makes it impossible to act in this
matter at this time.
"'When rehabilitation is termina-
ted my power to act without congress
sional action will be exercised.
WOODROW WILSON,"
Close Every Booze Shop.
, Refusal of President Wilson to act
, at this time means that the long arm
I of the wartime law reached out quietly
! at midnight Monday and closes the
, door of every liquor establishment on
American soil.
. How Soon?
Next in public interest to announce
t ment of President Wilson's attitude
: comes the question-how soon will the
: army be demobilized? There was
5 strong belief in some quarters Monday
t that this date would not be long de-
E layed, in view of the signing of the
treaty, the action of congress in re-
, ducing the size of the army and the
e effort of the government to bring back
all troops from abroad as speedily as
r it is humanity possible.
A The presidents emphatic announce
r ment as to what he would do when
: rehabilitation "is terminated" was
3 exactly in line with the opinion of
members of the house judiciary COM
mittee expressed heretofore-that it
Il did not require congressional action to
authorize him to declare wartime pro-
8 hibition ended.
r Still Selling.
Washington, D. c., June 3O.-As war
8 time prohibition took effect tonight
!. thes department of justice announced
its agents throughout the country
:. would not stop tomorrow the sale of
$ 2A per cent beer.
This eleventh-hour development, a
flat reversal of an earlier ruling today
by the department, was due to the un.
certainty as to how, the federal district
court of New York might rule on a
! pending lclaim by brewers that beer
u containing that much alcohol was not
y Intoxicating.
!. But while this uncertainty existed
/. as to beer of lighter alcoholic percent.
age than that sold generally heretofore
q q full warning was given that with re.
q spect to whisky and all beverages as
d to whose intoxicating powers there
6 was no doubt every government legal
0 agency would be set to work in a de-
n termined effort to prevent their manu-.
facture and sale.
Congress May Step to Front.
v How long the sale of 2A per cent
It beer might continue would depend
9 ordinarily upon the speed of the
9 courts, but congress meanwhile will
step to the front in an effort to com.
plete the effectiveness of the war.
time law.
~ Exactly what they have refused
- heretofore to do prohibition members
of the house will now attempt-pass
age of straight, clear-cut bill for
,f enforcement of wartime prohibition.