Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 140, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1924 — Page 12

JOHN ,W. DA VIS !n Congress He Drew Fire of Drys When He Offered Amendments to Webb-Kenyon Bill —Fought Recall of Supreme Court Decisions, ms LIFE STORY

SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS John W. Davis, son of John James and Anna Kennedy Davis, was born in Clarksburg. W. Ti„ on April 13. 1873. At 22 he had received B. A. and Bachelor of Law degrees from Washing-ton and Lee University. In 1910 he was elected to Congress. As Congressman he opposed the PayneAldrich tariff, particularly the section relating to wool; upheld the right of labor to strike and picket and attacked use of the court Injunction to prevent strikes. CHAPTER VI mHERE ir.ay have been some period In American history when the liquor question wasn’t occupying a good portion of the limelight, birf it’s hard to tell when that period was. Certainly not while John W. Davis was serving as Congressman from West Virginia. Several States had gone dry, and bootleggers were doing a thriving business. The most efficient bootlegging method was. of course, to run liquor over the State line from a wet State into a dry one. This proved very annoying to the “drys.” and they demanded that Congress pass a law to stop the practice. Congressman E. Yates Webb rallied to the dry colors and served as author of the bill which later became the Webb-Kenjbn law. Then the fight started —a “wetdry" battle of no mean proportions.

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Davis was very much in evidence on the firing line. His own State of West Virginia, being dry, was, naturally, very much affected. Also, he served on the committee which drafted the bill. When the bill came out of committee it prohibited shipment of liquor over a State line into dry territory. But Davis signed a minority report against it and offered two amendments which the “drys" ■'laimed would certainly extract all the teeth from the measure. The first amendment provided any one delivering liquor to a common carrier for shipment into dry territory should be subject to a uriSL,n term of from one month to two years, a fine of from SIOO to $5,000 or both. The second amendment provided that nothing In the act should forbid shipment or transportation of liquor for sacramental purposes or for personal use of the owner or consignee. No sooner had Davis’ amendments been fead than he was made the Objective for a concerted attack by the “drys." Asa result of this attack, Davis met his one overwhelming defeat. His amendments were both snowed underf and the bill passed the House by a vote of 239 to 64. Davis bitterly resented the attack and pointed cut its injust:ee. “There seems to have been more or less deliberate effort to spread abroad the impression that our amendments were not offered in good faith or from standpoint of friendship to this matter,” be said. “This is not true.” “I have no sympathy with the bootlegger or ‘speak-easy’ keeper whether he acts in a prohibition State, a license State, or a dispensary State, and he ought to he put out of business as quickly in one as in another.” Davis announced that te would vote for the bill regar lless of >vherher his own amendments were defeated, and he carried out this promise when the ballot was taken.

Fought Roosevelt Davis' career in Congress is re membered. among other things, for his denunciation of Colonel Roose velt when the ex F’msident advocated recall of United States Supreme Court decisions. In this attack he unloosed all the burning sarcasm at the command of his sharp tongue, praised the Supreme Court, and derided Roosevelt for his “third-term" candidacy. Referring to Roosevelt and the judicial deoision recall movement, he said: There are those who, recognizing the need for reform, are ready to rush headlong after so-called remedies, which when put to the test will only aggravate the disease they are supposed to cure. "With those who believe that by applying the doctrine of the recall to judicial officers the court vvilFbe elevated, justice promoted, or free government made secure, . I must differ —respectfully, I hope, but none the less with all the vigor I can com mand. "An ignorant judge may he in formed, a corrupt judge may he detected and exposed, hut a Judge cowed into impotence or tempted to excess by dependence upon the constant favor of the appointing power or the continued smile of public ap proval is of ail men the most pitiable and dangerous. “If a third term in the presidency would be extraordinary and unique the reoail of judicial decisions would indeed- be unique and extraordiray." j fMore Next Issue)

Hoosier Briefs WERT, sweet tidings. Factories at Decatur report —■■ . that sugar beets grown in eastern Indiana and western Ohio this year have higher sugar content than last year. Perhaps they hold their heads high in Marion. Board of works called on police to enforce a forgotten ordinance prohibiting placing of awnings lower than six feet six inches from the sidewalk. Conservative members of the Decatur County Gun Club at a banquet in Greeneburg feared a riot when application of Morris Cohen for membership, backed by John E. Osborn was turned down. Several nasty remarks were made about Cohen. Then those in on It revealed that Cohen was a fictitious character. CIOME on you forty-niners. C. \V. Murphy of the Bloomington Chamber of Commerce announced the other day that fortunes in Monroe County resources, such as a coal bed twenty feet underground and modeling clay are being overlooked. Logansport plans to put teeth in the police ‘‘stop” and “slow” signs at street intersections. Ordinance is being drafted. Motorists' wouldn't take just the word of the cops. P r ~~~~ ORTLAND knows how Indianapolis felt when the k- State tax hoard cut the tax levjr so much that the building program had to be slashed. Portland needs anew high school worse than a Fiji needs furs at the North Pole, and the tax board whacked 34 cents off the school levy. # Hartford City had anew kind of clean-up day. Business and professional men cleaned up grounds preparatory to starting work on greens of the new golf course.

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CEREMONIES AT I. U.

Bv Timet Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 20. Indiana University women students were in complete charge of the coner stone laying ceremonies late today for the new women’s dormitory. Alumnae and former students from all parts of the State were present. Governor Emmett F. Branch and Mrs. Branch were expected to be present. Addresses were to be given by Mia. William L. Bryan, wife of university president; Mrs. Frank D. Hatfield of Indianapolis; Mrs. J. K. Beck, Bloomington; Miss Elizabeth Johnson, Indianapolis, and Miss Edith Garrett of Evansville.

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Automobiles reported stolen belong to: Hanley H. Hammel, Monon, Ind., Ford, from there. Windfield Newcomer, Beech Grove, Ind., Cole, from Alton and Ninth Sts., Beech Grove. Homer McKee, 3145 N. Delaware St., Wills St. Claire, from in front of Winter apartment. BACK HOME AGAIN Automobiles reported found belong to: G. W. Mcßowall, 4428 Carrollton 'Ave., Buick, Thirteenth and Scioto Sts. Harry Van Diver, Franklin, Ind., Ford, at Richland and Washington Sts.

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OIL ‘TRUST’ ANSWERS Standard Dentes (rovemnient Charge of Monopoly. Bv United Prett CHICAGO, Oct. 20. —The Standard Oil of Indiana is not engaged in any combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade nor is it attempting to monopolize the gasoline “cracking" process, according to a reply filed here today to the Government suit against the Standard and fifty other companies. The company invented the “cracking" process and might have lawfully kept it to Itself, the reply states. Instead, it licensed other manufacturers to use it, thereby increasing amount of gasoline produced and kept prices to consumers lower than they would otherwise have been, the answer stated. Mrs. Warrenburg Burled Funeral services of Mrs. Bessie Warrenburg, 48, wife df John W. Warrenburg, 1602 Findley Ave., who died Friday was held today at 1 p. m.. at Barth Place M. E. Church. Burial in Crown Hill cemetery. The husband and four sons survive.

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OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

SONS TO MEET JOINTLY Anniversary of Battle of Yorktown Will Be Observed at Banquet. Anniversary' of the battle of Yorktown, Oct. 19, 1782, ending the Revolutionary War, will be celebrated by the Sons of the Revolution. and Sons of the American Revolution at a joint banquet tonight at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. E. U. Graff, superintendent Indianapolis public schools, will preside. Plana are being made to consolidate the two societies. Combined membership is 500 in Indiana. Arrested Following Fight Frank Woods. Oxford Hotel, is held today charged with assault and battery with intent to kill after police say' he cut John Moore, Oxford Hotel, in an argument at the Troyrestaurant, 153 S. Illinois St,., Sunday-. Moore was sent to the city hospital with a deep gash in his left side. Funeral Is Held Funeral services of Stephen Christie, 72, who died Saturday at the residence of a relative, Mrs. Martha Huntinton, 218 E. Walnut St., was held at 2 p. m. today at Wilson fun-

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'eral parlors, 1230 Prospect St. Burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Christie was secretary treasurer of Christie Machine Works. Five children survive.

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