Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-11-25
SENATE KILLS
Beer FOR U. S.
Measure Now Goes to the Pres
ident for His sigma
ture.
FINAL VOTE IS Sc TO Y
Bill Completes Final Step for the Out
having of Beer and Malt Liquors
for Medical Purposes-Has
Passed House.

Washington, Nov. 21-After brief
debate, the anti-beer bill, prohibiting
distribution of beer for medicinal pur-
poses, was passed by the senate and
sent to the President. The vote on
adoption of the conference report was
SO to %. Twenty-three Democrats
and thirty-three Republicans voted
for it.
Twelve Republicans and ten Dem
Ocrats voted against the conference
report
The Republican opponents we're
Senators Brandegee, Du Pont, Edge,
Johnson, La Toilette, Lodge, Mclean,
Penrose, Phipps, Shortridge, Wads-
worth and Broussard, Gerry, King,
Pomerene, Ransweller. The Demo-
Gratis were Senators Dell, Shields,
Stanley, Underwood, Walsh (Mass)
and Watson (Ga.).
Two others, Senators Reed (Dem)
of Missouri and Moses (Rep) of New
Hampshire, were paired against the
bill.
Thirty-three Republicans and %
Democrats supported the measure.
Senators Harreld (Rep.) of Okla
homa, Kellogg (Rep) of Minnesota,
Lenroot (Rep.) of Wisconsin, McCor-
mick (Rep) of Illinois, Sutherland
(Rep.) of West Virginia and Fletcher
Dem.) of Florida, who were absent
and paired favored the bill.
The bill will set aside the ruling of
former Attorney General Palmer, who,
two days before he retired, advised
the prohibition enforcement officials
that there was nothing in the Volstead
act to prohibit the prescription of
beer and light wines for medicinal
purposes.
The legislation has been before con-
gress since last June. The house ac-
cepted the compromise reached by the
conferees in August, but there fol
lowed a bitter controversy in the SEN
ate, waged by small but determined
group, who contended that the bill
struck fatal blow at personal rights
because it permitted search and seiz-
ure without warnings.
The bill limits physicians to 100 pre-
scriptions for liquor each three months
and specifies that not more than a
quart of spirituous or vinous liquors,
containing in the aggregate not more
than one-half pint of alcohol, may be
prescribed for one person in ten days.
Importation of liquors is barred by
the bill until the supply on hand in the
United States shall no longer be suffi-
cient to meet the current need for nor.
beverage uses.
1t also gives the courts of Hawaii
and the Virgin islands jurisdiction in
the enforcement of the national pro-
hibition act as well as enforcement
of the bill passed.
The bill permits search and seizure
of private property, including the
home, by prohibition agents, with or
without search warrants, prohibits the
sale Of beer as medicine and limits
prescription of liquor for medicinal
purposes.
Liquor taxes paid into the treasury
will be increased from $50,0OO,O00 to
$125, 100000 a year by decision
reached by prohibition enforcement
authorities to relax rules to allow
larger whisky Withdrawals for non
beverage uses.
Decision to modify existing regula-
lions and to permit wholesale and re-
tail druggists to obtain whisky of good
quality in such volume as may be
needed to supply the medicinal trade
followed conference between Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon, Commissioner
Blair of the internal revenue bureau
and the legal advisers of the treasury.
The effect of the decision will be
sweeping and will bring about inn
portant changes in the present sys-
TEN of enforcement.