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Show urn MM 01 DBTjpiE Prohibition Enforcement Bill Will Go to President Early Next Week. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. Breaking a three weeks' deadlock, senate and house conferees reached an agreement late today on the prohibition enforcement enforce-ment bill. Quick approval of the conferees' con-ferees' report is expected by leaders and the measure may go to the president presi-dent early next week. The bill, which establishes one-half of one per cent as the maximum alcoholic alco-holic content of beverages, was passed by the house July 22 and by the senate sen-ate September 5. The conference report re-port will be acted on first by the senate, sen-ate, to which it will be reported Friday, Fri-day, and then sent to the house. The bill will be returned from conference con-ference without fundamental changes in its plan for strict enforcement both of the wartime prohibition law and the constitutional amendments by the commissioner com-missioner of internal revenue and department de-partment of justice. The senate conferees, however, succeeded suc-ceeded in retaining virtually every one of the -Ho liberalizing provisions adopted adopt-ed by the upper bouse, which comprise mostly administrative features. The principal "liberal" amendment of the senate, permitting home manufacture and consumption of cider and light wines, was approved, as well as another seuntc amendment extending application applica-tion of the constitutional amendment to the Panama Canal 2one. In the principal conference dispute over imposition of the "burden of proof" in prosecutions, the senate managers man-agers were successful, for the bill as agreed on provides that the government must bear the "burden of proof" and prove its case in prosecuting those selling sell-ing beverages by showing that the beverages bev-erages concerned contained more than the alcoholic limit of one-half of one per cent. Manufacturers, however, as provided both by the house and Semite bills, must bear the bunion of proof that I heir products contained alcohol oulv within the amount prescribed. So change w:is made bv Ihe cou- : : (Continued oil Page 2, Column C.) advertisement of intoxicants or . of formulas or contrivances for their manufacture, man-ufacture, tho conferees approved tho senate amendment authorizing commercial com-mercial alcoholic compounds in trade .juuruals. . Another senate amendment -written nto tho bill regarding tho exempt-ion -from seizure of intoxicants stored in homes was that, providing residences and homes shall include apartmeuts and hotel rooms used by such possessors of liquors, who are exempt trom the requirement re-quirement to notify the government of stock on hand February i, f)20. BREAK DEADLOCK 01 DRY MEASURE (Continued From Page 0m.) forces in the provision which would allow al-low a man to have and cousumo in his own home liquor acquired before tho law goes into effect. Other senate amendments accepted included in-cluded that striking out tho clause penalizing drunkenness on trains, street cars, automobiles, ferries or other public pub-lic conveyances and the provision prohibiting pro-hibiting general public inspection of tho records of sales and purchases filed with tho internal revenue commissioner. commis-sioner. The conferees struck out tho house amendment requiring rdivsical examination examina-tion by physicians ol patients before issuanco of prescriptions for intoxicating intoxicat-ing beverages, and retained tho senate amendment providing for consumption of intoxicants by patients in establishments establish-ments for treatment of alcoholic addicts. ad-dicts. For expenses in enforcing tho bill, the conferees raised the senate appropriation appro-priation of $:i(IO,00(l to $1',0()0,000. The senate amendment authorizing manufacture and sale of "near beer''"' und similar malt beverages containing under one half of one per cent alcohol were retained, but it. is stipulated that, other names shall bo used for their ilos-ignation ilos-ignation than beer, ale or porter. 5n adopting tho provision prohibiting |