The New York herald., 1921-10-29
Decision Is Still Pending on
a Technical Point Raised
by Haynes.
BREWERS MAKE CHARGES
ClOture Rule May Be Invoked
in Senate to Force Passage of
Campbell-Willis Bill.
Special Despatch to THE New York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
XashinrfAn. ID C.. Oct. 20 [

Special Despatch to THE New York HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, ID. c., Oct. 70.
Invalids who expect to 60 on a beer
diet would better get their prescrip-
tons filed at once. if they can. Should
the dry leaders in the Tenate succeed
in carrying out the programme they
formulated to-day. medicinal beer,
legalized by order OF Secretary Of the
Treasury Mellon, will have to be
poured back into the vat Of outlawed
beverages.
Meantime beer ceiling permits are
being temporarily held up pending a
decision on a technical point raised by
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes,
which makes the outlook all the more
gloomy for the beer invalids.
In an effort to breakdown the wet
flibuster against the Campbell Willis
bill banning beer as medicine, the drys
have launched a Grive to invoke the
cloture rule. Tenator Sterling Is. d.
in charge of the anti-beer bill. began
circulating a petition for adoption OF
cloture unless the vets abandon the
flibuster which has been blocking
action on the measure for four
months.
After several hours effort Senator
Sterling had obtained the signatures
Of thirty Senators to the cloture petit
ton, although only sixteen are necessary
to require the Vice President to put the
motion to curtail debate. Nearly all the
signers were radical drys. but there were
several vets who thought the bill ought
to be brought to vote, it was reported
In order to adopt a cloture motion
following submission Of the cloture petit
t.on. d two-thrds vote of the Senate Is
necessary. It was considered doubtful
whether the drys would be able to mus.
ter such strength, although Senator
Sterling expressed confidence that g
cloture motion would receive the
requisite number Of votes.
If the cloture motion fails the more
ardent drys are planning to banc
together in a sort of battalion OF death
to stay on the job day and night. Keep.
ing the Senate in constant session until
the filibusters wear out and yield to 9
vote II vote finally Is reached 1t i.
generally predicted the bill will pass.
A clash between the Internal Revenue
Bureau and the prohibition unit OF the
Treasury Department is imminent ovel
the rights of brewers under the new
regulations legalizing manufacture ant
sale OF medicinal beer and wine.
Brewers In vigorous protests to-day
maintained that the whole purpose o.
the regulations Is about to be defeated
by the peculiar phrasing of the regula'
tions which bar sale Of beer heretofore
manufactured but not yet dealcoholized
The charge was made by counsel fol
the brewers that prohibition officials. ac
quiescing in the pleas OF the Anti-Saloor
League and other temperance organiza
tions, al INTO nullify the regulations b,
setting up rules which make beer sale.
impossible at least for a period of 81,
months.
At the end OF six months period, tn,
least time In which newly manufactured
beer could be aged and made suitable fo
consumption by patients for whom 1
might be prescribed. the attorneys fol
brewery interests allege. they will hav'
suffered irreparable losses. 1t is claimed
1 for the brewery owners that they hav,
| legal right to dispose of any real bee
they have on hand, since the Secretar,
of the Treasury has officially announced
that this right was established sever
months ago, when former Attorney Gen
eral Mitchell Palmer In a ruling declared
medicinal beer sales are legal.