The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1921-12-02
ANT|-BEER BILL
PASSES SENATE.
If President Signs, All Brew, Even
for Medicine, Will Be Stop
ped Immediately.
TEST TO SUPREME COURT
Prevents importation of All Liquors
Till Present Supply is SmaIIer-Sur-
wives Hard Fight-Seizure With
out Warrant Created a Storm.

Washington.-The Volstead supple
mental enforcement measure oliminat-
ing the use of beer for medicinal pur-
poses was approved by the Senate.
The vote was Sc to %. The result had
for weeks been accepted as q force
gone conclusion. The opposition
strength did not exceed previous es
Inmates
The twenty-five Senators who voted
to reject the conference report on the
Beer and Wine Bill were Brandegee,
Broussard, du Pont, Edge, Gerry,
Johnson, King, La Toilette, Lodge,
Mclean, Penrose, Phipps, Pomerene,
Ransdell, Shields, Shortridge, Stanley,
Underwood, Wadsworth, Walsh of
Massachusetts, Watson of Georgia and
Weller.
The Endorsement of the Senate
completes action on the Beer and
Wine Bill. 1t now goes to the Presi-
dent. The manufacture and sale of
beer under existing regulations must
cease Immediately upon his signature.
The act is regarded by many legal
authorities as unconstitutional. Test
cases will be prepared at the earliest
opportunity and the w law will be
brought before the United States Su-
preme Court for an opinion.
Following the passage If the report,
Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel
for the AntiSalocn League, gave out
a statement in which he declared:
"The passage of the Anti-Beer Bill
is victory for law, for enforcement,
and it blasts all hopes for the return
Of both beverage and medicinal beer"
These are the high points Of the
act as outlined by Mr.. Wheeler:
at prohibits prescribing beer or
malt liquors for medicinal purposes.
Not more than one-fourth gallon of
vinous liquor, or vinous and spiritu-
Gus liquor separately or in the aggre-
gate containing more than half a pint
Of alcohol may be prescribed in ten
days.
physicians are limited to 100 pre-
scriptions in ninety days, unless ex-
traordinary reasons are presented.
Preparations of splrituous or vim
Gus liquor is prohibited until the
amount ON hand shall not be sufficient
to supply the current need for nom
beverage use.
"The tax on liquor stolen or de-
stroyed shall not be collected from
the owner or the loser if theft did not
occur as the result of negligence or
collision or fraud on the part of the
owner or person legally accountable
for same.
private residences may not be
searched without a search warrant.
officers who, without probable cause
and malfciously, search any place
without search warrant are penal
lied. Persons who impersonate Of
ficers enforcing the Prohibition Act
are heavily penalized"
Senators Stanley, Broussard and
those who led the fight against the
measure insist that its provisions can
be construed to permit search and
seizure without a warrant and that
the Bill of Rights in the Constitution
has been impaired, if not destroyed.
Senators Wadsworth and Brandegee
made the concluding addresses in op-
position Of the bill, holding it's pro-
visions unconstitutional. Sterling and
Mcclellan spoke for TIC measure.
If President Harding approves the
act the Treasury will amend its pres
ent regulations to conform with It
and the sale Of beer as a medicine
will be stopped forthwith Officials
of the department, however, anticipate
that the question will be fought out
in the courts on he constituionality
of he law before it's final disposition.
At the White House officials declin-
ed to intimate what President Harding
will do with the measure