Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-06-28
BILL
PASSES HOUSE,;
SENT To SENATE
Measure To Prevent Sale
of "SudS" To the Sick
Adopted ESQ To SO, A.
ter a Stormy Debate.

Washington, June 27-By a vote
Of 250 to SO the house tonight
passed the Willis Campbell bill TO
prevent the sale Of beer to the sick
and sent it to the senate with ex-
pectations OF its final enactment
before the end Of the week.
The vote, which was twenty-one
more than the necessary two-thirds,
was taken after four hours OF
stormy debate,
In closing debate for the oppo-
nents, Representative Hill, repub-
lican, Maryland threw the house
into considerable disorder by
charging that Wayne B. Wheeler
general counsel for the Antl-Saloon
league, had drafted the bill. Point
ing to the league lawyer in the gal
lery and calling him by name, Mr..
Hill brought wild shout from the
prohibition element, some Of whom
stood until quiet was restored.
Wheeler Didn't Draft Bill.
A moment later when Represent I
alive Foster, republican, Ohio, de-
MED that Wheeler helped draft the
bill, there was another dry out !
burst.
A sharp attack on the rules COM !
mittee for failing to give right Of
way to the Volstead supplemental !
bill came from Representative |
Reayis, republican, Nebraska, q !
member of the judiciary committee,
who charged that its work of three /
weeks had been stifled. Mr.. Reavis |
declared It was menace to orderly /;
legislation when half a dozen |
members Of the rules committee I
could nullify the action Of another /,
committee in reporting a bill of |
national importance. Chairman /
defending the committee, |
said it was unwilling to mix emerg- |
ency legislation with controversial !
matters which should he fully |
aired.
In the midst of plea for passage
OF the bill, Representative Bark
ley democrat. Kentucky was in
terrupted by Representative Gil
bert, also q democrat, who qucr-
rled:
Since we are both from
Kentucky, | would like TO know
IL you would not rather see
a Kentucky colonel drinking
one hundred per cent liquor
than pot-belIied German
drinking key of beer?"
Mr.. Barley replied that IL
he had to look upon one Of the
two evils he preferred to see
colonel at the bar.
Takes Issue With A. +, of l..
Representative Cooper, republi
IAN, Ohio. formerly a railroad en-.
5ineer, took issue with the Amer
can Federation Of Labor, in stand
ng for light beer and Wines de
,larlng It had no right to make the
speak on moral quas-
ions, He insisted that the fedora
ion did not express the senti-
nent Of the workingman."
Representative Cochran, demo-
rat, New York, said prohibition OIL
my other law could not be en-
'orced when public sentiment was
against it.
Representative Burton, repubn-
AN, Ohio, declared that at must
De conceded that the eighteenth h
amendment imposes more drastic
equations on the people than any
other amendment but it was
adopted by an overwhelming ma
GRITTY said Mr. Burton, land we
must carry out the mandate of the
people"
Warns Against Law.Breaking.
Warning the house against the
constant spread of law breaking
since enactment of drastic prohi-
oltion laws. Representative Kahn
'epubliCan, California, turning
sharply upon advocates Of the an".
Deer bill, declared there are mem
)ers here who vote for prohibition
md who drink more liquor in
week than l do in a year"
Mr.. Kahn asserted the Volstead
aw was being broken every hour
If the day and that congress ought
o handle the problem in a rational
way.
Republicans Voting "NO."
Republicans voting against the
Dill were: Ansorge, Bacharach,
Book Brand, Brennan, Britten,
Durdick Burke, Chandler, New
York; Classon, Connolly, Penn
5ylvania; Curry, Davis, Minnesota;
Dyer, Fairchild. Fem, Freeman,
Bernard, Glynn, Hill. Hogan, Hulk II
eide, Hull, Jerreries. Kahn, KEEL
Ter, Kennedy, Kissel Kloczka,