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Show IF RADIGALS Conservative Prohibitionists Prohibition-ists Would Curb Extreme Application of Law. WASHINGTON, July 10. Conservative Conserva-tive members of tho prohibition faction in tho house set out today to curb what they described as radical attempts to make the pending enforcement bill so drastic that it might create a revulsion re-vulsion of feeling throughout the country coun-try on the wholo question of liquor drin lung. Warning was given by the conservatives conserva-tives that if the radical element went too far and added other severe restrictions restric-tions they would be certain to invite defeat in tho senate and possibly find all of their work thrown out by a presidential veto. Tho need of wise counsel was pointed out by the conservative con-servative prohibitionists in view of 11k- published announcement that Representative Rep-resentative Morgan, Republican, of Oklahoma, and a member of the judiciary judi-ciary committee, had given notice that ho would endeavor to make it a violation viola-tion of law for a man to keep a jug of liquor in his own home for his own use. Word was spread during the day that other prohibitionists were preparing to write into the bill a provision, stricken out by the committee, which would prohibit pro-hibit a man's "using" any little liquor lie mi glit happen to have around the house. Under the bill now before the house it is extremely doubtful, a member mem-ber of the judiciary committee said today, to-day, whether a person could fjive a drink of whisky to a friend at his own fireside without running the risk of arrest. ar-rest. Thero were many informal conferences con-ferences at which some of the drastic provisions of the bill, as pointed out by Representative Pou, Democrat of North Carolina, and a pioneer prohibitionist, wore called up like a bar room ghost, to keep the radicals from going too far. The farmer's wife who makes a quart of blackberry wine at home for use in her own family, MrMPou said, could be prosecuted and sent to jail. The farmer's far-mer's home where ji little cider is made for the family would be a nuisance under un-der the law, according to Mr. Pou, who declared that Russia, in the days of the czar 's highest power, never mado a law that was so far-reaching. |