Arizona republican., 1919-06-25
IN HONE
 |S LEGAL UNDER
 ENF ORCING LAW
All Day Fight Fails to Alter
 Feature-No Difference
 Made Between War Time and Amendment Prohibi- tion-Bill Is Drastic One

WASHINGTON, June 24-A mans right to store liquor in his home for the Tong dry period after July r. stccd up today against an attack on that prc- vision of the prohibition enforcement bill before the house judiciary com mittee.
 Near the end of an all-day session. the committee voted down an amend ment which would have made it unla1 ful for a citizen 10 have liquor in his possession; struck out a section which would have prevented use by citi- zen of liquor in his private dwelling. and decided, in the matter Of general enforcement. there would be no diffor ence between war time and constitu tional prohibition
 Even with this and other chang the bill as it will be reported out to- morrow or Thursday is considered aS all -en nbracing. So drastic are its pro visions, members of the committee said. that while a man may put a kes of beer in his cellar. he may be conVictc and fined. if. for instance, he wears a watch fob. on which there is Q pictur. of the keg as an advertisement. In general consideration of the measure. the committee made a numbe, of minor changes. but the principa ' fight was over the question of the right of home storage for personal use. Rep resentative Morgan, republican of Okla l homa, endeavored to have stricken out the section reading that it shall not b. unlawful to possess liquor in ones pr vate dwelling. while the same is occu- pied and used by him only as his dwell ing
 Prohibitionists Aroused Ardent prohibitionists on the commit tee voted against the Morgan proposal for the reason. they said. that nothira was to be gained by enacting law so drastic as to arouse the hostility Of peo- pie who rejoiced that the day of the saloon had ended. Prohibition mem bers supported an amendment eliminat ing the proviso that the liquor must be obtained and placed in storage prior to the date the act would become effective As amended the section reads:
 That such liquor need not be report ed provided the burden of showing that possession being legal, is upon the DOS sessor."
 Representative Gard. democrat Of Ohio, led the fight to strike from ths. bill the word "use'' as applied to the right of home consumption. His motion to amend also included the striking out of the words. give away" receive and l possess but5tne committee insisted that these should stand. It was sai5 there was no particular fight on air Cards proposal, and. as amended. tn. section stands:
 Law Is Quoted That no person shall. on or after .hf date when the 18th amendment to tHr constitution of the United States zoe. into effect. nor while the war prohibi- . tion act shall be in force. manufacturo sell, barter, give away. transport. i'm port, export, deliver furnish. receive Ci possess any intoxicating liquor exceu' as authorized in this act. and all -bf provisions of this act shall be literaIIz construed to the end that intoxicati,er ; liquor as a beverage may be prohibited
 Liquor for non-beverage purDoSe. f and wine for sacramental purposes mas r be purchased. sold, transported ans used as herein provided" f Every person legally permitted tt
 nave liquor is required to report 10 tn.
 proper authorities. within ten days aftf F the passage of the act, and possessiof after that date "by any person not le . gally permitted under this title to DOS
 sess liquors, shall be regarded as evj dence that 1t is kept for purposes e
 sale. This. however, does rot apply |, q home stocks.
 The bills definition of what is in
 toxicating hquor-any beverage or ITO f duct containing more than one-half 0
 one per cent alcoho1-was retained. !
 was said that members of the commit I tee discussed this section at length
 some contending that if one congres , undertook to define intoxicating llaaor n as one-half of one per cent. anoths, I congress could come along and mak F 1t four per cent or any figure it choss T Representative Gard, appointed las = year with Chairman Volstead and Rep < resentative Whaley of South Carolina
 to draw up a bill for enforcement o
 war time prohibition, endeavored {
 have the committee substitute his bii
 Chairman Volstead ruled againt a mo
 tion to this effect and was sustained
 It was said the war time measure Wa
 more liberal in it's provisions, but as tn committee had refused to separate Ws . time and constitutional prohibition. i A was unwilling, members explained. [
 make any defense in the matter O. en forcement.