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Show HOUSE ORATORY IS EXHAUSTED ON PROHIBITION BILL: MEASURE TOO -DRASTIC, SAY SOME OURIIG Advocates of Law Are Disconcerted by Criticisms Criti-cisms of Members Who Were Its Supporters. Speech - making Ends Today; Action on Legislation Leg-islation Has Been Put Off Until Monday. "WASHINGTON", July 11. In the course of a five-hour debato in tlio house today on the prohibition bill, tho liquor traffic was likened to a convicted con-victed criminal, appealing for a reprieve, re-prieve, while some of tho more drastic, provisions of the measure were denounced de-nounced as an invasion of the liberty, hospitality and habits of the home. It probably was tho last great day of prohibition' oratory in tho house. Not all of the twelve hours set asido for general debate had been used at the close of an all-day discussion which ranged from a technical argument argu-ment on constitutional .questions to a straight et u'mp speech for prohibition and its enforcement. Chairman Volstead of the judiciary committee, in charge of the bill, and Representative I'oc, Democrat, of Missouri, Mis-souri, leader of the minority, were unable un-able to allot ail of the time desired by members anxious to be heard. ACTUAL WORK ON BILL TO START MONDAY. There were more demands than there was time to give, with everybody wanting want-ing a word. Time and again there was the droning call "The gentleman asks permission to extend and revise his remarks." re-marks." The speech-making will continue con-tinue tomorrow, but the house will not begin actual work on the bill, section by section, until Monday. Again today ardent prohibitionists declared they could not support the enforcement en-forcement bill becauso of its provisions, pro-visions, and others contended that ones congress defines intoxicating liquors as a beverage containing one-half on one per cent alcohol the federal law for such enforcement can not become effective ef-fective without concurrent action by" the several states. The. principal "dry" argument against the measure today was made by representative Moon, Democrat, of Tennessee, who declared that unless it was materially amended, he would feel in duty bound to vote against it or else expose Ids disapproval by not voting at all. SAYS MEASURE IS IMPRACTICAL. for L'2 years, Mr. Moon said, he had stood upon the floor of the house and upheld the cause of prohibition, but the enforcement bill, which he characterized charac-terized as ' 'impracticable and senseless sense-less as anything ever suggested," should be opposed, "because it is worse in all irs features than the infamous Foreee bill." He asserted congres3 was going bnyond its constitutional powers in attempting jo say a man should not put liquor in his home, and in attempting to define intoxicating liquors by limiting the alcoholic content con-tent to one half of one per cent. It was apparent tonight that prohibition prohi-bition leaders were somewhat disconcerted discon-certed by persistent attacks on the en-foreemrnt en-foreemrnt bill by members of the house regarded heretofore as certain to support sup-port it. They still claimed, however, to have votes enough to put it through substantially as drafted, although they said radical changes undoubtedly would be made by the senate. The drive by the "wets." apparently had (Continued ou Page 2, Column 5.) -Til'.- of P;..-ific ."-a' ti ph'ne wrk- - y v :i .prij vt'-fi the r- om rnf il j-t- ion i ; if.- ..r:r;t iiirljra union of f.'-l'C'jr1 oi-.-i ,H"H for a nation- will ht of i--. ! rn 1 hrof hrl.ooii nrnbTS In ayrn- ..itttV WlMl tl,.; .V'eMl WOrkfTS. S..i,';l P.i.rt..ir,i union t .-If-graph '! ve-f.-ni.,y w lui.TK-iional h-.i '1'J uur' :r-i of t-li-i t rl- liuiS in .S;ri fiK r ii-. d;- Union and Company Reach Agreement; Car Service Resumed. I K.Vklt. 'olo,, July 11. With ru-is Ro !.lIiik'I by cl in: ring iT"W'l.-. of limm:-wii limm:-wii rd - hou ii'l clt l.on.s, who . lii' t! Tu'.sil;i y hiivo bffii fuifi'I to walk In work ami homo a gain or I a k t h i r cha in with uri.'-'rt am a uf on mill Im s.tv h . 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U Ii I If I ' k j 1. 1 nation for Mi'-h an t-l'-'tinn Is jt-nfmvr, th it pn n y will collect, col-lect, a 6 -rent. laid. KAN' f'Tt A N' 'IS' 'f , July 11. T!n rvn-(nil rvn-(nil cnminit I ei.1 directing (nun 1irrn the appeal for passage of the bill, after reciting the evil, as he had found it, in the liquor traffic. . A statement by the Georgia member mem-ber that in the time of strikes and riots the first order of the mayor of a I city generally was to close the saloons drew a reply from the Massachusetts representative. "While I was mayor of Boston," Mr. Fitzgerald shouted at Mr. Up-shaw, Up-shaw, "there was a street car strike, and the saloons were not closed, but when they had a street car strike recently re-cently in the .dry city of Bangor, Maine, the mayor ordered the saloons closed, and the fact was published in the newspapers. ' ' MEASURE IS TOO DRASTIC. SAY fflE (Continued from Page One.) broken up all attempts, threatened several days ago, to make the bill more drastic than in its present form. Charges were reiterated during the discussion today that the measure was largely drawn by the general counsel for t he anti-saloon league and that antidiquor organizations had given warning that no man need hope to heroine nominee for president next year unless he stood squarely for rigid enforcement of prohibition. Representative Gard, of Ohio, .Democrat, .Demo-crat, member of the judiciary committee, commit-tee, in opposing the bill said it was so drastic t hat the people 'would rise up in wrath against its enforcement but it was not half so drastic, he added, "as it had been when submitted to the committee by counsel for the anti-saloon anti-saloon league and the patent medicine interests. Manv changes still were necessary he asserted. Representative Fit zee raid nf Mussa-chusotts. Mussa-chusotts. and Upshaw of Georgia, both Democrats, tom-hed upon the extreme.-) cf the whole prohibition question, the former declaring h1 would put forward the state of Maine as an example of the folly of attempting to enforce a dry law. Mr. Uphaw made a straight 11 |