Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1900 — STRIKES THE CANTEEN. [ARTICLE]

STRIKES THE CANTEEN.

House Embodies Prohibition Amendment in Military Bit*. The army bill passed the House embodying an amendment for the abolition of the army canteen. Representative Fitzgerald (Mass.) attempted to have the amendment broadened so as to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquor upon government property, explaining that inasmuch as Congress was willing to deprive the soldiers of their beer the members should prove their unselfishness by prohibiting the sale of liquor at the capltol, but the motion was ruled out on a point of order. The House divided almost on party lines. Representative McCall (Mass.), who is opposed to the administration on everything connected with expansion and colonial policy, was the only Republican who voted in the negative. Three Democrats —Representatives Clayton and Underhill (N. Y.) and Hall (Pa.) —broke away from party lines and voted with the Republicans in favor of the bill. Mr. Littlefield’s substitute for the canteen provision of the bill reads: “The sale of or dealing in beer, wine or any intoxicating liquors by any persoD In any post, exchange or canteen or army transport or upon any premises used for military purposes by the United States Is hereby prohibited. The Secretory of War is hereby directed to carry the provisions of this section into full force and effect.” The amendment was adopted—ls 9to 51. Many members of the IV. C. T. U. were in the gallery and loudly applauded the result.