Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1919 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

SALt OF 2% PER CENT BEER MEETS DEFEAT. Washington', July 14>—Prohibition forces took full control in the house today, refused a permit to vote on a straight-out motion to repeal the wartime act, defeated overwhelmingly an amendment providing for the sale of 2% per cent beer, and stood solidly against all attacks bn the general ••enforcement measure. Just as fast ais one “liberal” amendment was offered by opponents of, prohibition, it os voted down without ceremony, always by a triple vote for the minority, fighting every inch of the ground, demanded a division after the ayes and nays were called, and then asked for tellers. Before the house got through with the first section of the first part or* the three-pant bill, there was more disorder on the floor than at any time this session. ■ ■ The disturbance arose first during an Attempt by Representative Blanton, democrat, Texas, to speak a second time against an amendment which would have given a jury the right to define jntoxicants, and was increased during an address by Representatives Gallivan, democrat, of Massachusetts, who declared members voting dry should print in the congressional record exactly how much liquor they had stored in their homes and offices. The real battle of the day, however, was over the amendment to define a non-intoxicant as a bev-. erage containing two and threefourths per cent alcohol, instead of one-half of one per cent, as written in the bill. Representative Dyer, republican, Missouri, author of the amendment, did not ask for any definition in the constitutional prohibition amendment, but simply in the wartime law. In pleading for its adoption, Mr. Dyer declared it was what President Wilson had recommended to congress, and would permit, during the remaining period of wartime prohibition, the sale of light wines and beers, and might delay issuance of a proclamation by the president which would restore the sale of “hard” liquors. There was a round of speech making on this motion, an hour of it, with the drys assailing it as an entering wedge, and the wets asserting that it merely would permit the very thing the president, as commander in chief of the army, had said was best for the country for the next six months. After two and three-quarters per cent beer had been bowled over by a record vote of 151 to 90—and this was about the relative division on all amendments —the prohibitionists went after another amendment by Representative Igoe, democrat, of Missouri, which would have stricken out all definition of intoxictnas, killing the proposal, 128 to 83. There was the utmost confusion at times, despite vigorous whacks with a gavel, and some of the prohibition leaders applauded every move in their favor in the galleries,, filled largely with women, and offi-f cers of anti-liquor organizations, broke into applause when the house reared its disapproval of tow and three-quarters per cent 'beer.

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