The New York herald., 1922-10-09
TO turn over ALL
ship LIQUOR TODAY
General Manager OF L. s.
Lines Says He Expects to
Surrender Stocks.
PROTEST DRY RULING
British Visitors Question
Our Right tosRegulate
Foreign Vessels.
BOATS COME IN WET
Passengers Say No Special At
tention Has Been Paid to
Daugherty Order.
BOATS COME IN WET

Thomas III. Rossbottom, genera
manager of the United States Lines
said he expected to turn over to th'
authorized representative of the Treas
ury Department to-day all the liquor
wine and beer now on board his ships
fincluding the President Polk, which
sails Wednesday, and the President
Arthur. which arrived yesterday.
! In spite of the warning sent TO al
American ships at sea to close their
bars. following the publication of the
ruling, the President Arthur did not
close her bar until the three mile
! limit was reached. according to her
| passengers. Customs officials who re-
ceived the ship at her pier, No. A. Ho-
| bol5en, said they had no instructions
to seize the liquor on board.
The 225 passengers had consumed
1900 liters of beer on the trip-about
| fifty-one lsegs-and there was very
! little hard liquor left, the officers said.
They also said if the ruling is en-
forced it probable would result in all
the crew becoming bootleggers and
getting drunk most of the time on the
| kind of stuff bootleggers sell.
Can't Prevent BootleeGing.
II would be impossible to police the
ships so as to prevent bootlegging, they
said. This was also the opinion of the
officials of the United States lines. Mr..
Rossbottom said he had sent wireless
to the America, which sailed Saturday
not 10 restock at Bremen. where she has
taken on her wet cargo on other trips.
II foreign ships are not permitted to
have liquor on board when they touch
at American ports. Mr.. Rossbottom
thought. it may be possible for the
Americans to compete. but otherwise the
order will knock out our trade. especially
with Bremen and Hamburg next spring.
Speculation was general as 20 what
Will become of the winter world tours
two OF which have been arranged by
American ships. the Resolute and the
Reliance. II was agreed that a world
tour on a dry ships would not be a
financial success from the standpoint or
the steamship company.
Four other world. South American
and West Indian tours are scheduled
by foreign companies These will prob
ably arrange TO start from Halifax or
Montreal in order TO avoid complica
tions. IL was thought.
British Protest Ruling.
Sir Arthur Arlington Haworth, chair
man of the Manchester Royal Exchange
and a member Of the Sulgrave delega
ton. which returned to New York yes
terday after a tour of the South and
middle West, expressed great concern
when told that che ruling OF Attorney
General Daugherty prohibiting liquor
or American ships also applied to for
eign shipping which enters American
ports with liquor on board as cargo or
in stores or even in a sealed bar.
Americans have a complete right to
legislate for themselves in any way they
choose. said Sir Arthur. But when they
propose to regulate British. French.
Italian and japanese shipping. that is
different thing"
This ruling will call for considerable
debate" declared Sir Arthur. He cx-
pressed the conviction. however, that
"the spirit of frankness in arbitration
which has been established between
/ Great Britain and America in past con-
troversles will make the danger OF seri-
Gus complication, which would have been
! imminent fifty years ago, practically nil
| In this instance"