The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-16
Republican Leaders Had Plann-
ed a Revision of Measure.
But Bone Dry Amendment
Failed to Please All Members.
WAS A STRICT PARTY VOTE
Attempt Had Been Made by
Bankhead to Stop L. S. Aid.
Three Mile Limit Is No Bar to
Booze, Under This Bill.

Wa 7hington, June lo--Wl llhoul a
record vote the house merchant ma
rine committee today rejected the
Bankhead amendment to the ship sub
sidy bill providing that no government
aid should be allowed ships on which
liquor was sold
Tho Edmonds proposal. which
would extend the Volstead law TO the
sea by rining all ships OF any regis
try touching American ports on which
LIQUOR selling was permitted, was not
acted on and the committee ordered
tho bill reported by a straight party
vote.
Washington. June 16.-President
Harding is insistent that the bill be
passed Immediately and eleventh
tion bo deferred until next winter
failed TO change his purpose.
This plea was presented on behalf
OF the house by Speaker Gillett and
Republican Leader MondeH Finding
no change in the presidents position
because OF the controversy raging over
the sale of liquor by the shipping
board house leaders said their chief
concern was to get the bill thru the
house as soon as possible. even If thev
had TO submit to a bone dry" amend
mcnt-
Representative Edmonds Republic
an. OF EGnuENANlnldr VINO mas DEED
fathering the shipI ing bill for the ad-
ministratiOn. today offered the house
merchant marine committee a new
provision. making it an offense for
any foreign or American ship to bring
liquors within the three-mile limit of
tho United States
This drastic bone dry" proposal was
presented as substitute for the
Bankhead amendment. denying the
benefits Of the subsidy or compensa-
70 A =r hi i-h
1ied or sold wines or liquors Each
of these prohibition measures were
considered today by the merchant
ma arine com mittee-
May just Be Sealed Up.
Representative Volstead. Republi-
can. Minnesota. author of the prohibi-
tion ,1w. stated that the Edmonds
amendment would nullify any treaty
provision with which it conflicted.
There remains doubt. however,
whether such law would require any
foreign ship to do more than to seal
up its liquor supply. In this event,
the discr- nination against American
passenger ships would continue to ex-
While the committee considered the
prohibition amendment. house leaders
push ahead with their work of getting
ready for passage of the subsidy bill.
Plans have beer made for taking up
the bill on Thursday or Friday under
q spec al RUE 1t was stated by Chair
man Campbell of the house rules COM
mittee. that no parliamentary ma
ch merry existed which could prevent a
Vo.c on a bone dry" amendment in
tho house.
House leaders believed today that
assent to the demand of the prohibit
tion'sts iIlsures passage of the legisla-
tion by the house, while refusal to
assent spells defeat for the bill. The
combination against the bill now con-
sists of Dem ocrats and Republicans
opposed to ship subsidy and rampant
proh -bitionists. willing to support a
subsidy for dry ships"
Boston. June 15.-The bar of the
United States new shipping board
steamer President Adams which ar
rived here today. on her maiden voy-
age from New York to Europe, was
open and doing business from the time
the pilot was dropped at New York
until another pilot was taken on out
side Boston harbor. according to pas
sengers arriving here
The bar was prematurely opened
before the vessel was out of New York
harbor. but closed again until the pilot
was dropped.
It was asain closed at midnight but
opened early this morning. passengers
state.
Whistles sold for 20 cents: cock
tails for 25 cents and ale for 80 cents
a pint. according to the glowing ac-
count OF the trip given when the ship
docked.
A party OF shipping board officials
made the trip from New York to Bos-
ton. The passage is said to have cost
approximately SIS to this port from
New York