Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-11-02 | Page 14 | Sutherland States His. Position on Webb Kenyon

SUTHERLAND STATES HIS . POSITION ON WEBB KENYON Because he failed to state Jn his address last night his position on the Webb-Kenyon bill, Senator George Sutherland today was asked whether he had that measuro In mind when he criticised so severely tho "fool laws," which, he said, intorfere at every turn with the personal liberties of tho citizen. The senator replied: "I stand squarely upon tho Republican Repub-lican state platform. I am in sympathy sym-pathy with tho spirit of the resolution (introduced, I think, by Mr. Shepherd) Shep-herd) providing that tho proposed amendment to the constitution establishing estab-lishing national prohibition be submitted sub-mitted to the people for ratification. 1 1 shall support that resolution by ; voice and vote. "I voted against the Webb-Kenyon bill becauso, in my opinion, it was unconstitutional. I shall continue to vote so, on all such measures, until I am convinced otherwise. If the bill had been broadened so that congress forbade the liquor traffic altogether among the states which would have mado it constitutional I would have voted for it. But tho Webb-Kenyon law provided that liquor should be carried car-ried at the option of a stato which was a delegation of the law-making power of congress and unconstitutional. unconstitu-tional. "I have no right to violate the constitutionthe con-stitutionthe fundamental law of the land by voting for measures which I know are unconstitutional any more than any other citizen has the right to violate the statutory laws. "I am in favor of amending tho constitution con-stitution to get rid of the liquor evil."