Evening star., 1933-01-30
BEER HEARINGS END
AS BILL IS SPEEDED.
Senate Finance Committee
Votes, II to 5, to Report
Measure FavorabIy.
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IS to Sc a barrel was similarly defeated.
Members of the committee emerging
fror.. the executive session said Mills did
not revise his estimates because OF the
inclusion of wine by the Senate Judi
ciary Committee.
The bill as approved by the Judiciary
Committee would permit wine of 3.O5
per cent but many wine producers have
contended it would be impossible to
make wine of such low alcoholic con-
tent.
Several prohibition leaders were wait
ing outside the committee room to testl-
fy when the committee reached ITS
decision not 10 hear them. Smoot had
announced that any new testimony
would be received but the committee
took the view the question Of policy and
of constitutionality had been considered
by the Judiciary Committee and required
no further hearings.
When th, dry groups learned OF the
committees action they announced
mass meeting of protest to be held at
the Washington Hotel Friday night.
Mrs. Henry w. Peabody, chairman
of the Woman's National Committee Tor
Law Enforcement, issued the following
statement:
In view of the fact that the Judi
ciary Committee of the Senate has sup
pressed all testimony of the experts
presented by the dry groups and has
accepted only one statement as au-
thoritative, that of Prof. Yandell Hen
derson of Yale University, who testl-
fed with the brewers, and British
statement on beer, meeting LOT
public hearing of protest has oeen
called in the Hotel Washington FRIDAY
evening at 7:45 o'clock.
New Testimony Planned.
"New testimony will be presented and
former testimony emphasized. Inc
Finance Committee of the Senate de-
clines to listen to any organizations
which have presented testimony before
other groups, while it does listen to
further testimony on the part of Secre-
tary Mills. The public has right to
the facts, which evidently the Juolclary
Committee and Finance Commlttee are
afraid to have presented, since the IN
formation indicates that the bill Is un-
constitutional: and is a nuliiflcatlon OF
the Constitution of the United States,
which every Senator Is sworn 10 sup
port and defend.
THE following organizations will take
part in the meeting: The National
Sentinels, United Committee for Law
Enforcement, Woman's National Com
mittee for Law Enforcement. Womens
Council. Woman's National Committee
for Education against Alcohol. 1nterna-
tional Reform Federation, and the Ma
tional Womans Democratic Law En-
forcement League"
Connally Explains Vote.
Senator Connally, Democrat, OF Texas,
some time after the committees action
issued a statement explaining his vote
against the bill.
Three and two-tenths per cent beer
by weight is equal to 4 per cent beer by
volume it said.
This is substantially the same per
centage as ordinary beer sold before
the adoption of the eighteenth amend
ment, which I regard as Intoxicating.
so long as the eighteenth amend
ment is the law of the land 1t ought
to be respected and enforced and l
shall not vote for any measure either
nullifying or evading it.
THE Democratic platform OF 1882
does not sanction the sale of beverages
Of an Intoxicating alcoholic content. 1t
provides only for such a content as is
permissible under the Constitution.