The New York herald., 1921-06-22
DRYS RECEIVE FIRST
CONGRESS SETBACK
House Rules Body Refuses
Preference to VOlstead
Supplemental Bill.
MUST BE REWRITTEN
Straight Anti-Beer Measure
by Willis, However, Is Of
fered by Campbell.
( ANTI-SALOON ROW GROWS
! Anderson Breaks In With
4 Charge That Dinwiddie Is
Ally of VETS.
ANTI-SALOON ROW GROWS
Special Despatch TO THE NEW YORK Herald
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, ID. c., June 81.

New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. c., June 81.
The Anti Saloon League and Repre-
sentative Volstead (Minn.), veteran
prohibition legislator have suffered
their first reverse in Congress since
the Eighteenth Amendment was passed.
Representative Campbell (Kan.>,
chairman of the House Rules Com
mittee. and himself a strong prohi-
bitionist, informed Mr.. Volstead that
his supplemental prohibition bill, which
knocks out the Palmer beer ruling and
makes other drastic dry regulations.
will not be gwen a privileged status
by the Rules Committee in it's pres
ent form. The action means the bill
as written will have no chance of
reaching the floor in the near future.
THE Rules Committee does not want
to report the bill in its present form
and won't" Mr. Campbell said.
The Rules Committee has no objection
to the sections of the bill prohibiting
the prescription of beer as medicine. but
has doubts concerning the additional
restrictions it places on the chemical
and industrial alcohol industries.
Whether the country will be flooded
with medicinal beer" through the putting
into effect of the Palmer ruling de-
pends on Mr.. Volstead. He and Anti
Saloon League officials have refused to
break up the measure
Meanwhile Mr.. Campbell has intro
duced in the House the bill of Senator
Willis (Ohio) which carries only the
sections of the original Volstead bill
not in controversy. II Mr. Volstead
refuses to report out the Campbell bill
from the Judiciary Committee the Treas
ury Department probably will soon is
sue the regulations allowing the pre-
scription of regular old fashioned beer.
Mr.. Volstead tonight said he might
agree to accept the CampbellW bill.
This measure prohibits the prescription
Of beer, limits the prescriptions of liquor
to 100 for each doctor every 100 days.
extends the prohibition law to the Virgin
Islands and Hawaii and gives to the
prohibition commissioner power to pro-
hibit the manufacture and importation OF
liquors until the supply IT, the country
fs reduced to an amount Just sufficient
to meet the needs.
Meanwhile, the row among prohibi-
ton lobbyists grows more bitter. Will
lam Henderson of the New York Anti
Saloon League to-day sent a statement
to Congress stating that Z. & Dinwiddie
formerly with the league. who has split
with its present officers over the beer
bill, was now "a de facto ally of the
vets and that he broke with the league
when he insisted on aspiring TO the office
of Prohibition Commissioner. Mr.. Din
widdie came back with a hot denial of
the charge.
Explaining his action ir introducing
substitute for the Volstead bill, Mr.
Campbell said:
''The Industrial alcohol features of the
original bill will hang up this legisla-
ton indefinitely and the legislation deal :.
ing with the Palmer ruling may be long
delayed.
The constitution amendment pro-
vides only for the prohibition of liquor
for beverage purposes. The arts and in
dustries are interested in alcohol only
for legitimate purposes and we have no
constitutional right to pass laws that
will prohibit or even embarrass them.
"As soon as Senator Willis's bill comes
over to the House from the Senate we
can pass 1t and lay ours on the table and
the whole thing will be over to the Pres-
dent in 'ess time than It would take to
debate the present Volstead supple
mental BILL"