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Show US' TRAVEL I OH IT SHIPS HOUSE IS TOLD Passenger Steamer Owners Say Prohibition Will Kiil Their Business Washington, Jan. i. Amendment Amend-ment of the prohibition enforcement at t so as to permit American passenger passeng-er liners plying in foreign trade to carry and sell Ibiuor outside the three mile limit of the United States was urged before the bouse judiciary committee com-mittee t'oda by steamship officials Who complained that because of present pres-ent restrictions foreign ships were handling the bulk of travel. Representative ISdmonds, Republican, Republi-can, Pennsylvania. author of tho amendment, declared that failure to amend the law would make it Impossible Impossi-ble for American ships to get anything any-thing except overflow travel. "Don't prohibitionists travel?" asked ask-ed Representative Igoe, Democrat, Missouri. I understand they go on ships that are not dry because they want to en-Joy en-Joy the fun." Mr. Edmonds replied. Allre-I G. Smltb, president and general gen-eral manager of the New York and Cubs Steamship line, said that "if the present law Is continued it will forco nearly every passenger ship owner to transfer his vessels to foreign registry." regis-try." p. A S. Franklin, president of the International Mercantile Marine, de- clared the law as it is today would mean the death of the American ship in the passenger trade of tho world. |