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i *^et' and 'Dry'
Bills Divide
Republicans
Codtlniied from f't* ana
vidual* on any beer and wlno legisla?
tion. They objected to having it ap?
pear that they a? a body would take
aides on any legislation outside of that
affecting war veterans. A large ma?
jority of them are known to be for the
Gillett bill.
flie Anti-Saloon League investiga?
tion, ?rdered by the Assembly is adding
to tne confusion in th* Republican
ranks- Both the "wets" and "drys"
Tiow are demanding that the inquiry
rot only will be held, but that it be a
thorough one. Speaker Sweet had
?'-<>\vn a disposition to block it, but
Assemblyman I.^uis A. Cuvillier. in?
troducer' of the investigation resolu?
tion, says he Has served notice on tho
Speaker that if he wants votes to oust
the Socialists he had better not inter
lore with the Anti-Saloon League in?
vestigation or other liquor questions.
Clash of "Wets" and "Drys**
The clash between the *'wct:' and
i..jrT" forces came into the open this
afternoon at the hearing before the
Senate Judiciary and Assembly Excise
committees on the two prohibition en- j
forcement bills. One is the Anti-Sa- j
?oon League bill, intreduced by Sena
tor Thompson and Assemblyman Slac- j
er and'ine other the bill of Senator I
Mullan and Assemblyman Bert Gage, '
which not only enacts tue Volstead law
bat continues tho state Excise Depart- '
rsVnt as an enforcement bureau. Wayne
B. Wheeler, general counsel for the
Anti-Saicon League, and William D. '
Guthrie, representing the United States.1
J?rcwers' Association, who has been as- \
sociated with El.hu Root in fighting'
the prohibition amendment before the
United Staus Supreme Court, were
pitted against each other in the argu-;
ment for and against the bils.
After both sidos had presented their
cases Assemblyman Gillett, who intro?
duced the light wine and beer bill,
asked to be hoard in the behal fof "the
. ordinary people of the state."
"The difficulty has been," said
Coionel Gillett, "that only the special
interests have been heard. The
brewers have these highly paid ex?
perts here on tht? one side. On the
other side wo find the organized Anti
Siloon League, a!so with their experts,
who are paid about as high as the
brewers' experts. Each is trying to
force us ideas down the throats of the
dear people. It is a case of about 2Vs
per cc'^t or. the ?ne sido and IVa per
cent on the other. Now I want the
big strata of the other 90 per cent of
the people, who are seldom heard here,
to be taken into consideration.
Calls for Voice of People
'"They do not war.t the brewers and
they don't want the Anti-Saloon
league. And I ask you- to withhold
youi Judgment on this legislation un?
til you gt* the ideas of the big unor?
ganized public, which pays us to come
here and legislate for them."
The Assembly chamber was crowded
with labor men, a big delegation of
brewery workers, and hundreds of un?
organized spectators on the one side,
and on the other the representatives
of churches, reform and civic organ
izations, mostly women.
William D. Guthrie, who opened the
argument fur th^opposition, said thai
the sole question to be decided was
whether r-:e state, under the concur?
r? r.t jurisdiction provision of the
Eighteenth Amendment, has any voice
whatever in regard to traffic in intoxi?
cating liquors and whether it can chal
I r.~e Congress not only in its prohibi?
tion on intoxicating liquors but also in
''prohibiting concededly non-intoxicat?
ing beverages."
"Obviously," he said, "if it were the
intention of Congress that it should be
supreme in enforcing this amendment
no such wording would have been put
:r.to it as that providing for concurrent
power between the states and the na?
tion. It meant that to the stated was
iu be reserved the right to regulate
their own internal affairs. We think
that the United States Supreme Court
will hold that you have to construe
the amendment reasonably, in the light
of our dual system of government. The
redorai govenSttent has supreme power
in its sphere, and the states have su?
preme power under their sphere. We
think that the intention of Congress
was exactly what the language said,
that the power shall be concurrent be?
tween the nation and the state."
Mr. Guthrie held that the states had
'.he rignt t?> regulate their own inter?
nal affairs, and that the Volstead act
S?J?-^._?1
could apply only to the District of Co?
lumbia and the territories.
"Neither Congress nor the Legisla?
tures can chango a fact by legislation,"
he said, "by a definition that neithor
can make that intoxicating which is
""not intoxicating. Therefore, the only
power given under the Eighteenth
Amendment is to enforce the prohibi?
tion of intoxicating liquor and not the
prohibition of non-intoxicating bever?
ages."
Coffee Equal to Beer
Dr. Hobart Amory Hare, of the Jef?
ferson Medical College of Philadelphia,
who has conducted experiments on the
intoxicating qualities of beer, declared
thct it had been found that a bottle of
2.75 per cent beer taken every ten
minutes for an hour had the same
effect as two cups of coffoe. James
P. Holland, president of the State Fed?
eration of Lal>or, said the people
should be givsn the right to vote on
such questions as that of prohibition.
"We should not let anybody come
along and force something on us that
we don't want," he said, "as for mo
no doctor ever had to prescribe any?
thing for me, and I am going to get my
beer."
William H. Brady, representing the
Manufacturers and Dealers' League of
New York, which he said was composed
of 1,200 firms employing 350,000
people, declared "the league had found
the working people were dissatisfied;
that they feel they have been deceived,
and that prohibition has caused great
unrest among them."
"A reaction is setting in," ha said,
"because they object to being called
criminals because they enjoy a certain
beverage as a food and stimulant."
Mrs. Ella C. Boole, state presidenl
of the W. C. T. U., appealed to the
patriotism of the legislators in askinj
them to pass the Slacer enforcement
bill. She declared that the beer anc
wine sentiment ia' merely a 100 pel
cent whisky sentiment, with the saloons
and all of their attendant evils.
"You should pass a bill that th<
Governor, will ^ign,"# she said, "a
least you can put it up to him."
Among others who spoke for thi
bills were William H. Burr, state chair
man of the Prohibition party; Mrs. T
Leigh Colvin. of the New York Count;
W. C. T. U.; Merten Jennings, o
Syracuse, a former service man; Nea
Dow Crammer, a former Y. M. C. A
worker in France, and Chester Hustec
of the Independent Order of Coo
Templars.
While the hearing was on Mr Ander
son was served with a summons an
complaint by one of the page boys i
tho suit for $50,000 libel brought b
the Rev. William II. Freeman, pasto
of the Presbyterian Church of Carlisle
Schoharle County.
The suit was predicated upon th
charge made by Mr. Anderson that M
Freeman was formerly a saloon keepe
2,500,000 Qts.
Of Milk Barred
Da?y From N.Y.
Continuad tram paga one
what is required to meet the public
needs in the market here now."
Denies Responsibility i
The present daily milk consumption
of the New York district is 2,000,000
quarts. Health Commissioner Cope
land has stated that the normal con?
sumption should be 3,000,000 quarts
daily.
Mr. Horton declined to make any
1 statement to newspaper men, nut Mr
Swann declared that the head of the
Sheffield company had denied responsi?
bility for the cut production notice
which is ?aid to have been posted in the
farming districts generally.
"He says that this notice was writ?
ten and prepared by one of tho younger
directors of tho company," Mr. Swann
declared. "But Mr. Horton seem3 to
see no objection to tho notice and Mr.
Alger seems to think that it is per?
fectly sound from an economic stand?
point.
"I asked Mr. Horton wheflher the
price to the consumer would not be
reduced if the distributors brought in
the additional supply. He said it cer?
tainly would, but declared that the
public was in no condition to consume
more than 7 per cent above the amount
of milk it now uses, no matter what
the price,was, even if it went down 3
cents a quart.
"To my mind there is no use.debat?
ing the question that New York would
consume a substantial percentage more
if the milk price went down. Mr.
Horton offered, however, to bet me any
amount of money that his contention
was correct."
Commenting on the Sheffield reduc?
tion notices, Mr. Swann announced
that one of Mr. Stafford's investigators
looking into the situation at Franklin
ville, N. Y., had been informed that
James Mulholland, a tenant of a farmer
named Lewis Riggs there, had been
told by the manager of the Sheffeld
dairy that if he (Mulholland) pur?
chased any more cows or increased his
milk production the company w?uld b<
obligeji to refuse to accept any of his
deliveries. Mr. Swann went on:
Swann Will Investigate
"The fact stands out, after thl
questioning, that 2,500,000 quarts o
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the poor to get milk.
Arthur Williams, Federal Food Ad?
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Seven Trucks of Whisky
For New Yorker Held Up
1,000 Cases From Roslyn, Md.,
Detained by U. S. Agents
at Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, March 16.?Seven
motor trucks carrying 1,000 cases of
whisky from Kosly_, Md.- near Balti?
more, to New York, were temporarily
detained here to-night by government
agents and will proceed under Federal
guard to-morrow to New York, where
an investigation as to whether the
3,000 gallons of liquor were transport?
ed according to law will be made.
Charges Gladding, of Baltimore, in
charge of the trucks for the express
company hauling the whisky, had with
him a permit of Durchase. but Federal
agents said he should have had a per?
mit of transportation. Gladding saic!
the permit was on file in Baltimore anc:
that he was informed by the prohibi?
tion director there that it was not nec?
essary to hav? )t with him.
The whisky ?s consigned to Henr3
Bradley, 605 West Forty-ninth Street
New York.
It was the intention of the prohibi
tion agents to hold the trucks her?
until an investigation could be madi
in Baltimore, but later it was decide?
to permit the whisky to be conveyei
to New York under guard.
Police Assailed
For Entering Home.
With Skeleton Key
Arrest of 19 Posial Clerks
on Gambling Charge
Held as "Outrageous"
by Magistrate Sweetser
Detectives who entered a private
house by using a skeleton key and ar?
rested nineteen postoffice clerks they
alleged were gambling yesterday, were
likened to burglars by Magistrate
Sweetzer, in West Side Court.
"If any policeman ever entered my
house in that manner," said the mag?
istrate, "he'd get the contents of a
revolver. This is a new one on me
and is nothing short of outrageous. It
is getting so that the police will swear
to anything to get a conviction. They
seem to went to run the whole city."
Magistrate Sweetser dismissed the
disorderly conduct charge against the
postal clerks and that of being a com?
mon gambler apainst Morris Fitzgerald,
of 362 West Thirty-first Street, where
the raid was made.
Detectives Emil J. Scallet and John
Cispers, of the 3d Inspection Dis?
trict, testified that when' they entered
the house they found tho ?lerks shoot?
ing craps and Fitzgerald collecting a
percentage. ,
James Ross, one of the clerks, swore
that Fitzgerald was not in the room
when the policemen broke in and that
they went to an adjoining room and
dragged him in. Each of the clerks
denied "they were gambling or that
there were any dice in their possession.
"I want a copy of the minutes in
this case," Detective Cispers exclaimed.
"I'm going to take it to the grand
jury."
"Go as far as you like," retorted the
magistrate, "but you had better not
be insolent about it." ,
Arrested as "Moonshiners"
Owner of Building Held After
Discovery of Three Stills
Following the discovery Monday
night of three large stills, eight gal?
lons of high proof spirits and ten
barrels of mash in the cellar of the
house at 2812 Ocean Avenue, Sheeps
head Bay, the police yesterday ar
rested John D'Angeli?, of 2854 Stiy.
well Avenue, Brooklyn, owner of the
building, on a charge of maintaining
an illicit still.
The stills are said to be the beat
equipped tha^ have been found here
since tabe passage of the Volstead act.
Hillquit to Support Debs i
Morris Hillquit, tho New York So- j
cialist leader, yesterday declared for !
Eugene V. Debs, now a prisoner in j
Atlanta, for President on the Socialist
ticket. He sent a telegram yesterday I
to the Socialist National Committee |
saying: I
"The Socialist party would destroy
its moral integrity if it failed to nomi?
nate Debs at this time. Debs would
not be true to himself and his inspir?
ing record if he refused to make the
fight at this time."
Glenns Falls Elects Woman
GLENS FALLS, N. Y., March 16?!
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Mayor of Glens Falls to-day by 117 j.
votes over CSarln? H. Hitchcock, car- j
rying most of hi ticket with him. Miss j
Kathaleen Kelieber was elected Cham?
berlain by a plurality of 2,722 over
Dennis O'Connel, Republican. I
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