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Show MAYBE BONE DRY OUBINGTHE IB 6ENATE FOOD CONTROL BILL GIVES THE PRESIDENT POWER TO PUT BAN ON SPIRITS. Would Also be Permitted to Place Iron and Steel and Many Other Products in Addition to Food Under Government Control. Washington. The administration food control bill passed by the house was rewritten on June 20 by the senate sen-ate agriculture sub-committee so as to give President Wilson the power and responsibility of deciding whether the nation shall be "bone dry" during the war and to place iron and steel and many other products in addition to food and fuel under government control. con-trol. Both advocates and opponents predicted pre-dicted 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 which would prohibit manufacture, manu-facture, during' the war, of all intoxicating intoxi-cating beverages, and empower the president to commandeer existing supplies sup-plies of distilled spirits, but would authorize au-thorize the executive in his discretion to permit manufacture of malted, fermented fer-mented and vinous beverages, and fix their alcoholic content. Should the president not exert his authority so as to exempt malt, fermented fer-mented and vinous beverages from the sweeping prohibitory provisions and should commandeer distilled spirits in bond, "bone-dry" national prohibition of both manufacture and consumption consump-tion would result, at is said, entailing a loss of federal revenue estimated between be-tween four and five hundred millions of dollars and new taxation measures, as well as local revenue reductions. |