The Kusko times., 1926-05-01

these statistics, it ought to be very easy matter for the vets to stack this House with members in favor of mod ification. I predict that you will not have five votes more than you have now.
 Mir. CeIler. If the gentlcman's pre- diction is like all his other predic- tions he vii find he is mistaken
 Mir. Blanton. The most you have bee nabie to corral recently is 37 votes by actual count.
 Mr. Celler. I will say that most of the members in this House are very much like the leaning tower of Pisa; they have the inclination but they dare not fall Uaughter.) l am sure that this poll that IS now being taken indicative of the situation throughout the country is going to make a great many members of the House fal.
 MT. O'Connor {of New York;. Is it not a fact, because of that poll, that two Senators from Colorado fell?
 MT. Celler. l think the gentleman is correct. The gentleman from Texas reminds me of an Irish lady in my district. She said to me, "Con- gressman, I am not going to read the Literary Digest any more. l said, "Why, Mrs. McDowd 2" She says: "The Literary Digest always pub fishes two sides of the Irish question. I'll not read it. There is only one side of the Irish question" tLaughter.) The gentleman from Texas can see only one side of the prohibition ques- tion.
 Mir. Blanton. You'd the gentleman yield after that?
 Mir. Celler. 1 yield
 Mir. Blanton. Whenever the lean ing tower of Pisa falls, the gentleman may expect some dry Congressman to fail.
 Mir. CeTler. The gentleman would better look out that he does not fall. With reference to the poll in the Rocky Mountain area, let nfe say that that area has always been the back bone of the prohibition movement. That was the most arid section of the country. I took trip to the West only recently, to be exact, last Oc- tober. 1 stopped in the city of Dem yer and in other parts of Colorado. i assure you, my good friends, found from my own observation that Colo rado was quite moist, and nobody ever wanted for any of the delectab1e liquids one might desire.-4 There were always those ready and willing and able to serve one not only in the city of Denver but in most parts of Coo rado.
 Now with reference to the poll con ducted by the Denver Post, the total votes, including the straight dry and wet ballots and the split ballots, in which voters expressed themselves on only one of the two questions sub mitted, was approximately no 1000. 1 have read qou the way the vote went, but the response, so the paper states in it's edition of February g, Sis all the more significant when 1t is consid- cred that the total number of ballots cast in Denver is more than 50 per cent of the normal city vote in a presidential eection year, while the total vote for the entire State of Col orado is more than 25 per cent of that normally boiled in the most important election" 1t also states that "the Posts prohibition toll is all the more surprising in that the referendum was indorsed by the drys and opposed by the vets. The poll was begun on February 12, and two days later a wet organization in Denver published newspaper advertisement advising the peope not to vote, and the Colo rado division officers of the Associa- tion Against the Prohibition Amend ment called on all members of the organization and all members IT l favor of modification not to vote. 1 While the leaders of the wet move i ment were urging their followers not ; to take part in the poll, the Colorado Anti-Saloon League and other dry or ganizations were waging statewide campaign to get out their votes. Alp ! peals for the people to rally to the support of prohibition were voiced 7 from almost every Colorado pulpit Ballot boxes were put in a large mum 1 Der of churches and the votes collect i ed there were delivered to the Post No ballots were accepted, says the l newspaper, which did not bear the I signature and address of the person voting. The average daily circulation of the Denver Post is l63,0OO That i the total number of ballots cast is 52,- I 900 fewer than the total number printed and circulated forestalls any 1 claim that there was ballot stuffing. MT. Chairman, I commend that poll ! and also this statement which l shall now read to the delegation from the State of Colorado. Mind you, the 1 Post states that it has always been consistently for prohibition. It has been in favor of the prohibition aw, and it has this to say:
 "The owners of the Post have al- ways been in favor of prohibition, and iy,e 1Aa ~G ha