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more than three cups OF coffee. Such
beer would not be unwholesome TO the
masses of the people"
Representative Hill filed statements
for a half dozen congressman, half
dozen others filed their statements for
themselves, and it was announced that
two-score more would submit their
views in writing later.
Representative Connery. Democrat,
Massachusetts, who said he had been
total abstainer all his life, was one
of those who advocated light wines
and beer.
The ordinary workmen are the
men l want protected he said. n"
cannot get the beer he is entitled to
under the eighteenth amendment,
while the rich can get all kinds Of
liquor"
The committee also heard DIR. Sam
uel Harden Church. president of the
COrnegia Institution, Pittsburgh. who
complained that Prohibition Director
Baird had published an advertisement
calling on the students of his institu-
ton 10 spy on their fellows and be.
come informers.
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"Mr. Baird is a fine man." Church
added. but he has become infected
with the spirit Of bigotry in the drive
Of Mr.. Wheeler, 1.-THE general counsel
Of the Anti-Saloon League, for such
practices"
The witness added that in pre-pro-
hibition days young folk had their
dances and there was no suggestion of
drinking, but that now drinking at
dances is general.
John G. Callan. president of the
Liberty Defense League, of Baltimore,
testified that home distilling in his
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stitution because it takes too long to
amend 1t, are appealing to the spirit
Of the mob"
FLAYS BUCK.IER.
Quoting from the testimony of Dis
trict Attorney 9uckner of New York,
before the prohibition committee. Sen
ator Borah characterized as coward.
ly, contemplate expediency," any pro-
posal TO let the states define and er
force the dry law.
''The great Civil War was fought
over that principle" he said, ito my
mind 1t is treason; il is a deliberate
evasion Of the Constitution. 1t is dis
loyalty TO the first principle of a fed
eral union and a violation of the oath
which every federal officer takes when
he takes office"
EDGE REPLIES.
When Senator Bruce DemOcrat),
Maryland, suggested that the North
ern states virtually blocked the en-
torcement of the fugitive slave law be.
fore the Civil War, Senator Borah
asked whether anyone wanted ''tO az.
peal to a defiance of the Constitution
as a precedent"
Senators Edge Republican,. New
Jersey, and Wadsworth (Republicanl
New York, defended the feasibility OF
permitting sale of beverages non-in-
toxicating in fact, but Mr.. Borah in.
sisted that what the vets want is in
toxicants, in violation of the Consti-
tuition.
URGES REFERENDUM.
Referring to the amendments be re-
Gently introduced TO the Edge referer-
dunn bill, 20 make the referendum
hinge directly on the question of re-
pealing the Eighteenth Amendment,
the Idaho senator continued:
Let US go back to the fundamental
law and submit that question TO the
people Of the United States. and sec
what they say about il. II they take
it out, every man should live up to it
1.-THE Constitution) with that cut. just
as now we should live up 70 it with it
in"