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HOUSE ENACTS MEASURE B1
VOTE OF 365 TO 5.
Far-Reaching Prohibition ProvisionForbidding
U$e of Grain for
Manufacture of Liquors.
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Washington, June 23.?The administration
food control bill, giving
the president broad authority to control
the distribution of food, feed,
and fuel for war purposes and apropriation
of $152,000,000 for its enforcement
and administration was
\ passed by the house late tonight after
far-reaching prohibition provisions
had been written into it.
The vote was 365 to 5, Representatives
McLemore, Siayden and
Young of Texas, Democrats, and
Meeker, Missouri, and Ward, New
York, Republicans, voting in the negative.
Prohibition Provisions.
The prohibition provisions adopted
would prohibit the use of foodstuffs
for the manufacture of alcoholic beverages
and would give the president
anthnritv fn take over for war nnr
poses all liquor now on hand. They
were put into the measure during
the evening in committee of the
whole and when the bill came up in
the house proper the anti-prohibition
faction did not demand that they be
voted on again.
The bill now goes to the senate,
where it will probably be substituted
early next week for a similar measure
already under consideration.
Leaders hope to get the measure to
conference by July 1.
Few important changes were made
by the house outside the prohibition
section. The control powers of the
president were limited to articles spe-|
cifically mentioned in the bill instead
of giving him blanket authority; vol-j
untary aids in control work were j
made subject to the penal provisions, j
all persons in the food administra-j
tion except those serving without j
compensation were placed under civil;
service: and the president was re-!
quired to make an annual report on;
the operation of the bill.
Committee of the Whole.
Action on the prohibition amend- j
ments was taken in committee of!
the whole, and opponents of the pro-;
posals immediately began mustering!
their forces for a reconsideration,
when the bill came up for trial dis-!
cussion in the house proper.
Barkiey Amendment.
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ed 152 to 114. It was submitted by
Representative Barkley, of Kentucky,
L' Democrat, and would provide that no
food, food material or feed cannot be
used during the war for the manu*
facture of alcohol or alcoholic beverages,
except for government, industrial,
scientific, medicinal, or sacramental
purposes.
On the amendment authorizing
' government use of distilled spirits
there was no roll call and only a few
scattered nays were heard on the
viva voce vote. Originally proposed
by Representative Webb, of North
Carolina, it was accepted by Chair,
man Lever, of the agriculture com1
mittee, and was adopted on his motion.
It says:
Webb Amendment.
"The president is authorized, if in
! his opinion it is necessary to conI
serve necessaries, to require any per
sons having control of alcohol and
distilled spirits to turn over to government
use for redistillation, such
| proportion of solid alcohol or spirits
[ as the president may deem necesI
sary to meet the requirements of the
j government in the manufacture of
; ammunition and other military and
; hospital supplies.. In so far as such
use of redistillation would dispense
with the necessity of utilizing products
and materials suitable for food
and feed in the future manufacture
of alcohol or distilled spirits, for the
person to comply with* the president's
requirement, the president is authorized
to requisition and take possession
of the alcohol and distilled spirits
required to be turned over and to
pay for same a just compesation to
be determined by the president, and
j if the price so determined be not satisfactory
to the person entitled to receive
the same, such person shall be
entitled to sue the United States to
cover such further sum as, added to
tne amount so paid, as win ue jusi
compensation."
As originally adopted. Representative
Bark ley's amendment would
have provided also against use of
foodstuffs in making non-alcoholic ,
drinks, but this feature was later
stricken out. An amendment by ,
Representative Lenroot to permit tlie (
manufacture of light wines and beer
was defeated. 12.4 to 124.
There was a hot debate over the}
prohibition features. "Wets,*' and (
"drys" accused each other of unfair- s
ness and Representative Meeker. Republican.
?md Representative Kelly, (
of Pennsylvania, got into such a row ?
that their friends surrounded them t
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then had the words they exchanged
stricken from the record.
Quickly Rejected.
When the house returned to consideration
of other sections of the
bill an amendment by Representative
Keating, of Colorado, pproviding that
nothing in the bill shall be construed
as repealing or affecting the labor exemption
provisions of the Sherman
anti-trust law quickly was rejected.
Mr. Keating read a letter written by
Herbert C. Hoover to Chairman Lever
endorsing the amendment, but
Mr. Lever insisted that a combination
of men in time of national distress
might attempt to limit the manufacture
of food necessaries if such.
an exemption were made.
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Tillman Back at Capitol.
Columbia, June 23.?Senator Tillman,
accompanied by Mrs. Tillman,
passed through Columbia this afternoon
for Washington. Senator Tillman
looks well and is in excellent
spirits. He thinks there might be a
few bugs*' in the carbuncle he had
on his arm. but says it is practically
well and that he feels in fine trim.
Senator Tillman said that he had
Senator Ham Lewis keep in touch
with him and he was ready to return
to Washington as soon as wired to
return, but that Senator Lewis seemed
in no hurry for him to return to
Washington, saying the administration
was getting along all right with
all of its measures, but Senator Tillman
thought it best to be on the
ground and will be at his office Monday
morning ready for the grind.
Senator Tillman is keenly alive to
the war preparations and inquired
particularly as to the work on the Columbia
cantonment. He has a strong
idea that the Germans will be on the
Rhine by September 1, but in this
Mrs. Tillman thinks the senator is
allnwincr t !l o iciT trv fotlioi' *1,/^ i/lnn
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Simple home remedies wiU be tried
out on Harry Comer, of St. Paul,
Minn., who was in police court a few
days ago and pleaned guilty to a
:*harge of drunkenness.
"Where do you work?" asked
fudge J. W. Boerner.
"I work in an institute for the cure
)f the liquor habit, on Bates avenue."
>aid Comer.
"Go back to work and take some ;
>f the cure yourself," said the judge ;
is he ordered the case stricken from i
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