The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-17
At TO | The VOTE
Drys See Only One Wet State
in the As in c. s.
See Seven of SWEETS" Turning
Into the Other Line.

washington, jan III hlrIy-eiSnt
states having ratified the national
prohibition. amendment, dry leaders
here today were hopeful that the final
vote would stand At for and 1 against
Two dry" states are yet to vote and
eight "wets." Seven of the latter, the
drys believe, will act favorably. New
Jersey is the only state that the drys
concede.
To those who see patients dying
from lack of whisky as a stimulant. A.
c. DiTwiddie, the anti-SaloOn leader,
explained that the prohibition amend
ment Just ratified does not interfere
with manufacture and distribution OF
liquor for legitimate, scientific, phar-
maceutical and sacramental purposes
To congress goes the task of decid-
ing Just how sick America must be
under the amended constitution to get
such a Stimulant.
Drys here refuse to take seriously
the vets technical fight on the amend
ment. They insist that the liquor in
terests haven't a leg to stand on and
furthermore, won't get very far in the
courts after the nation has expressed
itself for prohibition. 1t was also
pointed out that the supreme court is
not il the habit of passing on the con-
stitutionality of constitutional
amendment.
What the "Drys' Want.
Under the eighteenth amendment,
congress will be asked by the drys to
enact laws making prohibition effec-
tive along these lines:
1. The appointment of a federal law
enforcement commissioner with suf-
ficient and adequate power and assis-
lance to secure the enforcement of the
act.
2. A provision for the abatement of
the liquor nuisance by injunctions.
8. Comforting of power upon the
law enforcement commissioner to pre-
scribe rules and regulations with the
approval of the commissioner of in
ternal revenue for the manufacture
and distribution of wine for sacra-
mental purposes and alcohol for nom
prohibited purposes.
4. Comforting of all necessary au-
thority on officials and fixing adequate
penalties for violations of the act.
5. All intoxicating liquor illegally
possessed, manufactured or sold, and
all implements used in the illegal
manufacture of liquors should be con-
| sidered contraband.
Prohibition To Be Real.
6. The sale, manufacture, transpor-
possession of Intoxicating liquor for
beverage purposes should be pro-
hibited.
Z. The phrase Intoxicating liquor
should include distilled, malt, ferment-
| ed. vinous, alcoholic or any intoxicat-
ing liquors.
| 8. An adequate search and seizure
provision similar to those which have
proved effective in the enforcement of
| the prohibitory laws in the states.
9. The sale of alcohol patent or
proprietary medicines which are pos
sible Or capable of being used as a
! beverage should be surrounded by the
/ same safeguards as the sale of alcohol.
10. Provision to prevent any scheme
/ device OF subterfuge to evade the pro-
visions of the act.
| II. In accordance with the national
prohibition amendment the several
states shall provide legislation in har-
mony Herewith to carry out it's pro-
visions.
u. Such other provisions as will de-
stroy every vestige of the beverage
liquor traffic thruout the United States
and its possessions.
| Wisconsin Goes Dry.
| Madison, Wis, Jan. 1.-THE Wis
consin legislature today completed its
ratification of the national dry amend
! ment when the house voted So to 80
H.