The Penn's Grove record., 1921-02-04
Dry LAW FAILS
IN N. j. SENATE
Refuses Endorsement of Prohibi-
ton Amendment, 9 to g, With
Three Not Voting.
BEATEN AFTER HOT DEBATE
Simpson Says Adoption Means State
Accepts Anti-SaIoon League Bit and
Spur-onIy Dissenter to Call for
End of ocean" Wetness.

Trenton.-The senate sprang a sur
Prise by refusing to indorse ratifica-
ion of the federal prohibition amend
nent. The vote was 9 to 8, three
senator's declining to vote. AS the
resolution went through the exceed
ngly dry" assembly as a special Or
Ter last Monday night, its blockade in
he senate was not expected, but, as
aas been indicated. dry forces are not
10 largely in evidence there, and indi-
cations are now that other measures
passed by the house may meet the
same resistance.
The final vote was 10 In favor of
ratification and s opposed, with three
senator's not voting. To assure another
opportunity to get 1t before the senate
Runyon, Of Union, asked to have the
resolution laid over before the vote
was announced. The vote follows:
For ratification-Allen, Bright, Ha-
gaman, Mackay, Parry, Reeves, Run
gon, S~turgess, Wailworth, B. 81. White,
all Republicans.
Against NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Heath
and Simpson, Democrats, and Case,
Smith, Stevens, Charles D. White and
Whitney, Republicans. Martens, Rays
and Barber, all Democrats, refused to
vote.
The practical defeat of the resolu-
lion came after a long and vigorous
debate, the fact that consideration of
-IN question rroG nc Copo+a. Cinavcnv
pointed out, "the thrashing of threshed
straw" not affecting the interest. The
tight for its adoption was led by Sen
4tor Runyon, who was supported by
Parry, of Essex; Mackay, of Bergen,
and White of Burlington. Senator
Simpson made the principal argument
against the measure, backed up By
Senators Brown, of Middlesex; White,
Of Atlantic, and Heath, of Mercer.
Simpson Condemns Prohibition
Senator Simpson said that for the
senate to adopt the resolution would
be to send the ews out TO the rest
Of the country that New Jersey chad
been bitted, saddled and spurred by
the Anti Saloon League"
He referred to the crime wave that
Is now spreading throughout the coun-
try and gave the prohibition amend
ment credit for most of the blame.
He declared that the 'etherized slim
ulants had been substituted for pure
drink"
Senator Parr.' aroused the ire of
Senator Simpson, when he laid the
blame for some of the anarchy and dis
respect of law to the attitude of the
New Jersey legislature last winter
passing the $50 beer bill in violation
Of the Constitution. Senator Simpson
declared that Senator Parry had not
the right to hold up New Jersey as the
sore spot of the Union, that the legis-
latures of New York and Pennsylvania
had both ratified the amendment and
those places were Ravens for the Illicit
distiller and bootlegger. Senator Simp-
son declared that the picturing by SEN
.Rtor Parry of the heavenly West where
prohibition was accepted as a fact and
not q theory was not important, as
there were not as many voters in the
whole state of Nevada as there were
In one of his Jersey City wards.
When the roll was called and one
vote was needed to put it over, Senator
Runyon asked to have the senators not
voting called a number of times, but
they refused to change their attitude
and the resolution was laid over. The
chances are that it is now dead and
will never be revived.
Put Beer Repeal Across
Immediately after this action, how
ever, the senate by a vote of Is to l,
put through the repeater Of the 1880
beer law" which the house also passed
last Monday night. The negative vote
was cast by Senator Simpson. 1t is
expected that Governor Edwards will
veto the measure, but the vote is there
to override his veto.
Cold Water Forces Yield
Yielding an inch or two upon several
of the most important and more dras-
tic features of the dry enforcement
bill now before the legislature, leaders
in the cold water ranks came a
little nearer to getting their measure
In shape to disarm the criticism that
1t has aroused.
They will have conside" able yielding
to do, however, as was evidenced at
the long public hearing before the jul
dietary committee of the senate and
house. Marked notifications in the
drastic features of the bill were CON
coded by it's ardent sponsors who had
been appraised that in its original form
Its enactment might produce a serious
and f%arreaching reaction against pro-
hibition.
1t appeared somewhat difficult for
some of these ardent ones to grasp
that phase of the situation. since, hav-
ing achieved what they look upon as a
"great victory they wanted to carry
the result to the utmost extremity. The
original draft of the bin, therefore,
ronracanted that impractical and mar