The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-11
DRYS DEFIED BY
ASSEMBL YMEN
TO DO WORST
Anti Saloon League Heads
Challenged in Fight to
Modify Wright Law.
MRS. STANLEY JEERED
Doctors Take Floor TO
Testify in Favor of
Measure.

Testify in Favor of
Measure.
Leaders of the Indiana Anti
Saloon League and the w. c. T. U.
today faced the challenge OF mem
bers Of the Indiana general assem-
bly, to do their worst" if they
choose, in retaliation for efforts to-
ward modification of the Wright
bone dry law
Open defiance was hurled at dry
crusaders for the first time in more
than decade at the hearing in the
+ house of representatives Tuesday
night on the Egan- Monnig bill TO
permit prescription and sale of
medicinal liquor. The hearing was
before the house public morals COM
mittee.
Declaration of liberty for rep
resentatives was sounded, amidst
shouts and shaking OF fists.
And Just a few minutes before the
bitter and acrimonious outburst that
rocked the hall, the Rev. Father
Joseph p. Weber, pastor of the
Church of Assumption, had pleaded
for brotherly love and a cessation
of bigotry,
Repeal Bill Up Tonight
After the hearing, the public NOR
ais committee said it would decide
on it's recommendation on the Egafl-
Monnig bill following the hearing
tonight at 7:30 on the Galloway
Egan bill for outright repeal of the
Wright law.
The hearing was led off by Rep
rcsentative Fred Egan Dem, Lake.,
who described the bill permitting
prescription of whisky as a health
measure.
IT can not understand why the
+Anti-Saloon league should be OPP
rgoSed to the bill or on what theory"
n.igan said.
r. He referred to cases where whisky
as been needed to save lives and
mentioned the occasions when
r-5overnor Ed Jackson and Attorney
General Arthur Gilliom sought
liquor to save members Of their
families.
: Insofar as opposition to this bill
comes from the Anti-Saloon League,
Al can sec. no reason for the con-
'tinucd existence of that organiza-
ton" Egan said. "It was founded
for the purpose of eliminating the
saloon. That having been accom-
plished, there is no further reason
for its existence
Doctors Back Measure
1.-THE medical association has reen
Disseminated against for several
years." declared DIR. Henry F AL
berger, who, with DR.. Albert E.
Sterne, Dr.. James Stygall, al of
indianapolis; Dr. Claude A. Saw
age and Dr. j. H. Gilpin of TT.
Wayne, presented the medical efgu-
! ments for proponents OF the bill.
+ DR.. Alberger said he had been
5 handicapped in treating illness by
lack of whisky.
DR.. Sterne declared THE question
has but one inlport-it is not a moral
question. has nothing to do with
prohibitions, but it's simply a .ques-
ton. of medicine"
The meeting began to crackle
when Representative John D. T..
Bold Dem, Vanderburg) took the
floor
Called Outrage
at merely am layman, but the
consideration under the present dry
law is the most damnable outrage
ever perpetrated on the people"
he said.
Telling of time when his mother
had been i'll and the physician de-
clared he would have to administer
either morphine or whisky, Bold
said: do you know, the physician
didn't want to prescribe the NOR
phine because in certain cases, con-
tinued prescription of the drug
made addicts out of the patients?
There shortly will appear men,
bers of two organizations who will
come with the name of God and
the Savior on their lips.
Il tell you that is damnable bias
phemy."
For a moment it was impossible to
hear amidst the tumult
The dry attack was opened by
Ethan A. Miles, dry league attorney,
who after a preface in which he de-
clared that the Wright law per-
mitS the prescription of alcohol, pre-
sented DR.. Rollo N. Harger,
toxicologist at Indiana University,
who belittled the therapeutic qualities
of whisky and described various re-
actions.
Defend Dry Law
Dr. W. r. Turner of st. Paul E.
M. Haggard and Homer Q. Hall of
Franklin presented the arguments
against the prescription of whisky.
But the big moment arrived with
the introduction of Mrs. Elizabeth G.
Stanley Of Liberty, state president
OF the w. C, T. u, whose remarks
were greeted with jeers, which re-
suited in frequent use of the gavel
by Representative Russell j. Dean
Dem, Marion). committee chair
man. Dean had been Endorsed by
the dry league
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