Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1902 — Charley Landis Scores Again. [ARTICLE]

Charley Landis Scores Again.

Congressman Landis is alwajs doing the right thing as well as saying the right thing. He scored a ten strike in the House Monday, by securing the prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors in the

capital building. While the immigration bill was up for consideration, Representative Shattuc, chairman of the committee on immigration and naturalization, proposed an amendment to his bill authorizing the sale of beer at the immigrant station at Ellis island. Mr. Landis opposed the amendent on the grounds that he did not think it right to authorize the sale of intoxicating liquors on grounds owned and controlled by this government. Mr. Shattuc tauntingly replied that if that was how Mr. Landis felt he should offer a resolution prohibiting the sale of liquor in the Capitol building of the Nation. Mr. Landis replied that he was looking. for that Very opening, that he did not believe intoxicating liquors ought to be sold in the that if he had his way about it he would not permit such sales within five miles of any soldiers’ home or military post. Later he offered his amendment in the shape of a new section to the bill and it was adopted by an overwhelming vote.

Mr. Landis takes the position that members owed it to themselves to take such action as a matter of self-defense —that outsiders did the drinking and members of Congress had to stand for it. Representative Sibley, of Pennsylvania, said that he would rather have the credit of abolishing liquor from the Capitol than for anything that had been done since he had been a member of Congress. The credit for wiping out this scandal, will however be given to Indiana.