Show THE cigarette iRETTE CIG IS CORESS discussion or the ase of cigarettes by A washington dispatch says abo friends and enemies of cigarettes and cigarette smokers had an interesting test of strength in the senate today to day and the cigarettes were defeated strangely enough the vote was divided almost strictly on parky lines the republicans ranging themselves solidly in opposition to the paper cigar and the democrats with the exception of senators brown and harris putting themselves on record in its favor home of the senators who paid little or no attention to what question they were voting upon which is not at all unusual with them did not know that there was a trial of strength between the cigarette and its enemies bub anch was the fact senator chace opened the warfare by presenting a petition signed by physicians including the most prominent ones in the city urging the passage of the bill making it unlawful for anyone to supply cigarettes or tobacco in any form to boys under 16 years of aap mr chace took occasion to dwell with great emphasis upon the terrible results of the habit of cigarette smoking which according to the testimony of is sucking the life blood out of the growing youth of this country senator chace said the question was as important as any now before congress and that the people might read for themselves what eminent physicians say of the beadily work being done by the cigarette he moved that the petition be printed in the record senator stewart stew art who is fast becoming one of the most frequent talkers in the senate not excepting the senior senator from florida emphatically endorsed all that senator chace had said and added his testimony to that of the physicians senator harris loudly objected to the printing of the matter in the record senator chace then begged to have it printed as a public document that the parents of growing boys might see the evils of the habit of cigarette smoking mr harris objected to this also and aheu the chair said he thought mr chabes motion was carried the tennessee senator called for a division every republican voted with chace the cigarette and every democrat except brown with harris in its favor the opponents of the cigarette won and the warning of the physicians will be printed for public distribution by the senators |