The New York herald., 1921-08-22
FILIBUSTER ON BEER
LOOMING IN SENATE
Threatens to Prevent Recess
Unless V0lstead Yields on
Seizure Clause.
Special Despatch to THE rvEw -oRK HEaALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, ID. c., Aug. FL.

Special Despatch 10 THE rvEw -oRK HEaALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, ID. c., Aug. 81.
filibuster, in which twerfty or
twenty-five Senators will participate IL
necessary, will greet the conference re-
Dort on the beer bill in the Senate IL IL
is called up tomorrow Senator Brous-
sard (La). one of the hackers OF the
Stanley amendment, declared the bill
cannot be passed in month unless that
amendment is approved finally.
Enactment of the bill before Wednes-
day, the date set for the beginning of a
Congressional recess, appeared tonight
10 be extremely doubtful.
From all indications there is only one
way the bill can be passed. Representa-
i've volstead and the radical drys Of the
House must accept the Stanley amend
inent of the Senate prohibiting search
nd seizure by prohibition agent with
out a warrant. Otherwise there seems
10 be little chance for the bill before the
recess or little chance for recess.
The unexpected battle over the anti
beer bill. rivalling in intensity and dog
sedness the legislative fights over the
original volstead law, Is disrupting the
programme Republican leaders hoped
to carry out before starting ON a vaca-
ion. Because of the Prohibition fight
many members doubt that a recess can
begin Wednesday.
Unless the bin is passed before the
recess the Treasury Department Will
issue the regulations allowing the sale OF
medicinal beer. which the measure seeks
TO annul.
Members of the dry districts do not
care to have these regulations issued
while passing their recess in their dis
tricts and be forced to admit that the
inability Of Congress to agree on the
nnti-beer bill is responsible for the ac-
ton.
Senators backing the Stanley amend
,nent tonight had completed their plans
Cor Sighting the adoption Of the con-
ference report on the bill with the sub
stitute, which greatly weakens the Stan
icy amendment from the standpoint OF
protection against unwarranted search
and seizure The conference substitute
makes warrants mandatory only when
homes are to be searched and prohibits
malicious searches and seizures, whereas
the Stanley amendment as originally
passed by the Senate, prohibited any
search or seizure without a warrant.
Senate leaders will ask the House lead
crs tomorrow to allow the passage of the
bill with the Stanley amendment. but Mr..
Volstead, who controls the prohibition
situation in the Rouse, says ne never VIII
accept the Senate search and seizure
clause It Is believed ny some he viii
allow the beer bill TO go over until after
the recess unless the Stanley amendment
can be kept out of IT,
The dry chief Is in an embarrassing
position IL he should accept the Stanley
amendment prchibitionists would de-
nounce him. as he already has said the
provision would break down prohibition
enforcement. If he refuses and the de-
lay to the bill causes the Treasury De-
partment to allow the sale of medicinal
beer. he will be denounced by his dry
friends for the return Of that beverage.
The hackers of the Stanley amend
ment believe a reaction has set In
against prohibition. and they are anxious
to maintain the advantage accruing from
the defeat of the radical drys for the
first time since the Volstead law went
on the statute books.