Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-15
No Compromise Allowed All
Efforts TO Secure Straight
Vote on Repeal of War Act.
Defeated.
CONGRESSMAN BROWNE
QUITE DEM0NSTRATIVE
Statesman From Texas Causes
Trouble By Trying to Speak
Second Timei Definition
Causes Battle,
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Washington, July 14.-Prohibition
forces took control in the house to-
day, refused to permit vote on a
straight-out motion to repeal the war
time act. defeated overwhelmingly an
amendment providing for the sale of
two and TIN ee-quarters per cent beer,
and stood solidly against all attacks
on the general enforcement measure.
Just as fast as one liberal
amendment was offered by opponents
of prohibition, it was voted down
without ceremony. always by a triple
vote, for the minority fighting every
inch of ground, demanded a division
after ayes and nayes were called, and
then asked for tellers. Before the
house got through with the first ses-
sion of the first part of the three
part bill there was more disorder on
the floor than at any time this ses-
sion.
Blanton Causes Row.
The disturbance arose first during
an attempt by Representative Blan-
ton, democrat, of Texas, to speak a
second time against an amendment
which would have given a jury the
right to define intoxicants, and was
increased during an address by Rep
resentative GalliVan, democrat, of
Massachusetts, who declared mem
bers voting dry should print in the
Congressional Record exactly how
much liquor they had stored in theil
homes and offices.
The real battle Of the day, however,
was over the amendment to define al
non-intoXicant as IA beverage contain
ing two and three-quarters per cent
alcohol instead of one-h half of one perl
cent, as written in the bill Represen-
tative Dyer, republican, of Missouri,
author of the amendment, did not ask
for this definition in the constitutional
prohibition amendment, but simply inI
the wartime law, In pleading for it's!
adoption, Mr., Dyer declared it wasI
what President Wilson had recon-
mended to congress and would perl
nit, during the remaining period of
wartime prohibition, the sale of light
wines and beer, and might delay isl
suance of a proclamation by the presi-I
dent which would restore the sale of
hard" liquors
Round of SpccCh-making
There was a round of speech max |
ing on this motion, an hour of it, with
the "drys" assailnE it as entering
wedge, and the "wets" asserting thatI
it merely would permit the very thing
the president as COMMUNICATING chief
of the army had said was best for the
country for the next six months.
After two and three-quarters per
cent beer had been bowled over by
a record vote of 151 to 9O--and this
was about the relative division on all
amendments-the prohibitonsts went
after another amendment by Repre-
sentative Igoe, democrat, of Missouri, |
which would have stricken out all
definition of intoxicants, killing the
proposal, 12S to SO.
There was the utmost confusion at
times, despite vigorous whacks with
a gavel, and some of the prohibition
leaders applauded every movement in
their favor, The galleries, filled large
ly with women and officers of anti
liquor organizations, broke into ap-
plause when the house roared it's dis
approval of two and three quarters
per cent beer.