The Washington times., 1924-01-03
UPSHAN URGES
LIQUOR BAN
IN HOUSE
Georgian Would Bar From
Floor Members Found
Using lntoxjcants.

OI I1OASCJ S~AAN
Speaker Frederick H. Gillett, all
Republicans and anti-prohibitionists
would forfeit their seats in the
House of Representatives, were a
strict Interpretation Of the Four
teenth Amendment required, was
the assertion of Congressman VIII
liam D. Upshaw of Georgia, in a
speech on Law and National So
briefly" delivered today on the floor
of Congress.
Upshaw also urged a rule barring
from the floor OF the House any
: Congressman found under the in
fluence of intoxicants at the Capitol
or in the House Office building.
Congressman UpshaW delivered
his speech while seated in q chair
on the floor of the House. Crippled
since early youth, and required to
walk always with the aid of
crutches, he recently suffered an
injury in Pullman car from
which he has not fully recovered. !,
Cites Election Laws
Maintaining throughout "a spirit
of good humor the Georgian offered
at the UO61ul1LS 6O4EOA "a eNkVAO6J
for proceeding his subject of ma
tional sobriety with a discussion
that had about it complexion OF
sectionalism.
II am not to blame" he said. II
call this House to witness that dur.
ing my nearly five years in Con-
gress l have never precipitated an
unworthy sectional issue on this
floor. l love always to put the
emphasis on the national verities
that unite us rather than those
that divide us; but this time l have
been challenged, by Mr.. Hill, The
Chicago Tribune, and number OF
other Northern papers to explain
the discrepancies between the gen.
eral election votes North and South.
With almost startling bluntness
Congressman Upshaw declared: THE
South does not violate the Four
teenth Amendment, and l dare any
man on the floor of this House, or
any editor in the Union to give a
single bit of evidence to the con-
trary."
He, quoted Blaines Twenty Years
in Congress, and also the Supreme
Court decision in the famous
Slaughter House cases, to prove the
Fourteenth Amendment did not per-
NIT Congress to take action against
an occasional sporadic case Of
election interference by individuals
the opposition must be the result
of State action against the negro
sand he declared. mo such in
stance exists.
The speaker declared it to b'
unfair and dishonest to try to prove
intimidation from general election
figures. for said he, 1.-The prim
aries settle practically all elections
in the South, and there is moi
enough partisan opposition to bring
out the vote in the general cleo
ton"
Refers to Bootleg List.
Speaking of the Washington lis
OF "gilded guilty customers" in G
recent raid he declared: Suppose
they were German spies in wal
time those names would be pub
hshed. A man whose distorted
patriotism would put an alien flaG
over your home and leave you il
peace with your family, is an Ange
of Light compared to a blackheartec
bootlegger who would put dollars
in his pocket, or ballots in his boz
DN yum CAAAAA1C eAAAS
mine. He will lie-he will steal
he will murder, and every man ant
woman, high or low, who patronize!
that villain is a partakeF of hi
hellish crimes
The Congressman declared tina
."the people of America are 81
aroused over this, the biggest ques
tion before the nation, that there
is not the ghost of "a chance II
either party for damp candidate
on a damp platform" president
Coolidge has done beautifully al
far as he has gone" said thu
speaker, but there is so mucl
drinking devilment going on among
officials that the friends of nationa
6obriety are anxious to see him be
gin a holy crusade by breaking
every jug and bottle in official Wash
ington by using the executive guile
tine on the head of every drinking
official including army, naval ant
Cabinet officers"
Would Ban Diplomatic Rum.
In discussing liquor of the foreign
legations and embassies, Upshav
said: 1.-The flagrant abuses of diplo
matte immunity on the part of man.
of the attaches of foreign legation
and embassies puts into italics tn
necessity for revoking a privileg
that should never have been allowe
under our national prohibition law
Recent Investigations have COZ
WINGED me that some of these diplC
mats Would be heartily glad to b
relieved of the expense and all thei
own troubles and responsibilitie
from liquor immunity. I am intro
ducing bin to relieve them of thei
Sacchanalian temptations in ou
prohibition land. 1t is demoralizin
TO see truckloads of liquor trans
ported through our streets whil
many foolish Americans look on an
say. 1T is not fair to allow foreign
ers TO revel in liquor that is denie
to us by our Constitution
LAS long as this immunity contlr
IVES these abuses will occur. Th
Capital of this prohibition natio
can get along without the liquor
drinking functions in these foreig
posts among us which tantalize an
demoralize our political and Soci5
life. We love the fellowship of othe
nations, but we have right to RI
spectfully invite all drinking foregI
ers to stay away from America Will
we are engaged in the mighties
moral battle that any nation ha