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Show SOLONS DISCUSS NEW Cf LAWS UNTEMYER DENIES RIGHT OF CONGRESS TO DEFINE INTOXICATING IN-TOXICATING DRINKS, Debate on Prohibition Enforcement Bill in the House Has Many Advocates Advo-cates and Opponents of the Measure. - j Washinglon. The right of congress lo define iiiloxiraiing beverages was denied Saturday by Samuel I'utermyer. a New York lawyer, in testifying before be-fore the senate judiciary subcommittee subcommit-tee which is considering prohibition enforcement en-forcement legislal ion. Mr. rmcmyor told the conimiltcu that neither under the wartime pro h:hliion act nor the constitutional amendment could congress say that any particular percentage of alcoholic content constituted an intoxicating li-(iior. li-(iior. Iioth the act ami the amendment, amend-ment, he argued, left this its a (pies-lion (pies-lion of fact which could be determined only before a jury. Hebale on Ihe prohibition enforce- ... ,... I. ill : o in T y-i t nril.i v in ttin house with many advocates and opponents oppon-ents of the measure awaiting the reading read-ing of the bill for amendment lo launch their final arguments. "Koprosentntive Kahn, Kepublican, of California, denounced the bill as one which appeared to be made for "a nation of inebriates," and urged that the wine industry of his state be saved from "unwarranted destruction." Mr. Kahn explained Unit the experience experi-ence of American soldiers in France had proved that light wines could be drunk without harmful effects. The California representative presented pre-sented figures to show that "prohibition "prohibi-tion increased crime, rather than causes u decrease." "In this city," he said, "crime was increased fully 25 per cent since 1016 and fines collected are greater than ever before." |
