Show I PROHIBITION IN THE SUNNY SOUTH White Gentleman Can Get Gel c Drink When He Wants It but buta a Cant C ot Get a Drop HEARING IN WASHINGTON WETS AND THE DRYS BOTI HAVE A CHANCE I Washington Feb G of ot the tha Prohibition party the A lt 8 ot the Womans V omans Christian Temperance union and various organizations appeared today before the i e hous ho s com on the time judiciary to urge a fa favorable a report on one orv or more of the bills introduced to protect dry local option o districts from receipt of ot Inter Interstate interstate state na as wall well as ns intrastate shipments of ot liquor Array rray of Speakers 1 Roy Rev PO g w F P Nicholson legislative su BU of the tho League spoke for or this organization Professor Charles Scanlon n of Pitts Pittsburg burg burgr for far fo the Presbyterian Pre church Fin Finley Finley Finley ley of t Cumberland Md for far the Prohibition party and ani Mr Ray of Pennsylvania Penn for United Presby Presbyterian Presbyterian Presbyterian terian church Present l for or r the Womans Wo Womans o omans mans Christian Temperance Temp ranco union were the national president Mrs L LM LN M N Stevens the national secretary Miss Mias Gordnn Gordan and the national executive tive tivo superintendent Miss Ellis Representative Bartholdt of Missouri MI made an argument against the pro proposed proposed posed measures mOO ures In of the National Na National National Alliance nce One Doubtful Point Representative Clayton of a an a n member of the committee questioned some of ot the prohibition speakers as to the legal right of ot the states to Invoke federal excise protection in the tho U face of voluntary surrender to the government t of ot the very ery rights now sought to be re rc obtained It was agreed that briefs should be bg b submitted on this point Representative Bartholdt Barthold asked that the decision of the committee to close Its hearing Feb 12 be rescinded In or order order order der to allow representatives of the Cal California CalIfornia California wine merchants to come to Washington and present their side of the case and also to give further hear hearing hearIng hearing ing to t the Alliance This request was denied In asserting the complete failure of prohibition laws in Maine Kansas and Iowa Mr Bartholdt remarked These things we know but we dont dorit dons t know how n lU w prohibition laws I are going gang g to operate In the th stator of Georgia Geor Georgia gia sta and Alabama l I How It Works me mc interrupted Chairman Jenkins 3 but I heard an answer to that query made rr by b a southerner only this morning Ho He said seid The inauguration Inauguration Inauguration ration of prohibition tion laws in Alabama and Georgia will work like Ukon a charm This will mean that a white gentle genUe gentleman gentleman man roan can get a drink he wants it ft but a cant get a drop Representatives Clayton of Alabama and Brantley of Georgia laughingly protested protected that this was pot not so Surely Sure Mr Chairman your our friend did not sneak th that t way of Alabama Questioned Mr Clayton i I Ihm am am quite positive he was not re referring ferring to Georgia added Mr Brant Brantley Brantle i ley leyHe le He said sUd Alabama and he said Georgia Gl replied Mr Jenkins and even some of or the prohibition representatives Joined jollied in the laugh that followed I |