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Show SOLONS DISCUSS NEW DRY LAWS UNTEMYER DENIES RIGHT Of CONGRESS TO DEFINE INTOXICATING IN-TOXICATING DRINKS. Debate on Prohibition Enforcement Bill in the House Has Many Advocates Advo-cates and Opponents of the Measure. Washington. The right of congress to define intoxicating beverages was denied Saturday by Samuel Untermyer, a Xew York lawyer, in testifying before be-fore the senate judiciary subcommittee subcommit-tee which is considering prohibition enforcement en-forcement legislation. Mr. Untemyer told the committee that neither under the wartime prohibition pro-hibition act nor the constitutional amendment could congress say that any particular percentage of alcoholic content constituted an intoxicating liquor. li-quor. Both the act nnd the amendment, amend-ment, he nrgued, left this as a question ques-tion of fact which could be determined only before a jury. Debate on the prohibition enforcement enforce-ment bill continued Saturday in the house with many advocates and opponents oppon-ents of the measure awaiting the rending rend-ing of the bill for amendment to launch their final arguments. "Representative Kabn, Republican, of California, denounced the bill as one which appeared to be made for "a nation of inebriates," and urged that the wine industry of his state be saved from "unwarranted destruction." Mr. Kabn explained thnt the experience experi-ence of American soldiers in France had proved that light wines could be drunk without harmful effects. The California representative presented pre-sented figures to show that "prohibition "prohibi-tion increased crime, rather thnn causes a decrease." "In this city," he said, "crime was increased fully 25 per cent since 1916 and fines collected are greater thnn ever before." |