Show O f IS rA PASSED D DY DYA IE A Action by Senators in Striking Contrast st to That of Representatives tives 1 1 Amendment f r. v- v r. r 4 h 4 cH Vl ts a 1 j Y- Y WASHINGTON Sept G. 6 I j W vv The Thc prohibition ion enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment measure was vas ready for coni con con- i fegence today for action on amendments ad added ed to the house I bill by the senate which passed it late lato yesterday hand I In addition to to attaching the liquor liquorI I and drug prohibition act for the Panama Panama Panama Pan Pan- ama canal zone the senate modified a number of the most rigid provisions provisions provisions provi provi- of the house bill bl Including that I affecting private stocks of or alcoholic beverages held for personal use useI I The enforcement nt bill was passed by bv byI bythe the senate without a record vote and virtually v In tn the form it came from I committee The only material change made inthe inthe in inthe the bill in the senate was the addition addition addi addi- I tion tion- by amendment of the liquor and andI dru drui prohibition act for tor the Panama I canal zone This measure has not yet yetI I been acted on by the house bouse HOUR ATTEMPT An n hour eleventh attempt by Seh- Seh I ator Shields Dem Tennessee to render ineffective the whole section I of the measure relating to enforcement enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- I ment of wartime prohibition failed I II his own vote yote being the only one cast caRt castin castin i I in favor or of or It lt His amendment would have ha limited the operation of the warI wartime wartime war war- I time law to the six states in which demobilization camps are located As It palS passed d the senate and goes to I conference the bill defines as an In Intoxicant Intoxicant intoxicant In- In toxicant any era beverage containing morp more th than n i of or 1 I per cent of al al- al I cohol The senate modified how however I some sOm of ot the most mORt rigid provisions of I II the house bill including that affect affect- affectIng I in Ing private stocks of alcoholic beverages beverages bev bev- I bev-I j held for personal use CONTRAST IN HOUSE Passage of the bill bill b by the senate I was In striking contrast t to Its Its' troublous troublous trou trou- blous oa voyage e through the tho house house No I serious effort to alter Its terms terroR was i imade I II made except t the Attempt by Senator n I Shields I The e Tennessee senator con con- fended that since demobilization was I in fact alm almost t completed this section n of br tho net applied only to New York state stale as as' as every ery other state slate where whre ac active active active ac- ac II i tive demobilization camps were situated situated situ situ- was dry by state statute He liet I asserted that laws law forbidding sale of intoxicants to m men n In uniform and fixing dry zones about military c camps and posts pORts fully covered ered soldiers 8 PER CENT REMAINS Senator Wadsworth said only S 8 per percent percent cent of the thEl army arm remained to be demobilized do- do mobilized and that passage of a a. wartime wartime wartime war war- time enforcement net act offered the cu curious curious cu- cu rious pe of providing for tor carrying carry carry- log ing- out a law that was about to die Ho Ito brought out the fact that the power pow pow- er of the president to render this section sec sec- section I tion during peace was dc declared by m moans means ans of ot ota a n proclamation eliminating I the demobilization period was not I Ch changed g find and 1 said I r If I events c transpire as we assume they will transpire this act will ex expire ox- ox pire In two months or six weeks x I Does the senator mean asked Senator Dem Ohio that I tho treaty will be ratified in two months months' I I said nothing about ratification Senator Applied |