Show MAY BONE BE-BONE DRY DURING THE WAR AR ARSENATE SENATE FOOD CONTROL BILL GIVES THE PRESIDENT POWER TO PUT BAN ON SPIRITS Would Also be Permitted to Place Iron and Steel and Many MarJY Other Products in Addition to Food Under Government Control l. l Washington The administration food control bill bill- pa passed sell b by the house was rewritten on June 26 G by the senate senate senate sen sen- ate agriculture sub-committee sub so as to give President PI Wilson the power and responsibility of deciding whether the nation shall be bone dry during the war and to place Iron and steel and man many other products In addition to food and fuel under govern government men t con con- Both 0 advocates and opponents predicted pre pre- passage of the measure As a substitute for the house prohibition sections which without qualification forbid the manufacture of foodstuff Into liquor the subcommittee adopted provisions ns which would prohibit manufacture manufacture manufacture manu manu- facture during the war of all nIl Intoxicating cating eating beverages anti and empower the president to commandeer existing supplies sup sup- plies piles of distilled spirits but would authorIze authorize authorize au au- au- au the executive In his discretion to permit manufacture of malted malte fermented fermented fer fer- and vinous beverages and fix their alcoholic content Should the president not exert his authority so as to exempt malt fermented fermented fer fer- and vinous beverages from the sweeping prohibitory provisions and should commandeer distilled spirits In bond dry bone prohibition of of ot both manufacture and consumption tion would tion-would would result It is said entailing a loss of federal revenue estimated between between between be be- tween four and five hundred millions of dollars and new taxation measures measures as well as local revenue reductions |