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DRY LEADER ASKS FORLBERAL LAN ON PROMETION Both Sides Take Fight From Committee to Floor of Senate. By Joseph S. Jordan. (Special Staff Correspondent of the Evening World). ALBANY, March 17.—The fight for and against Prohibition will be made ‘tm the open next week when the wets and drys will go to the mat. Senator George F. Thompson gave notice in the Senate to-day that he will move to discharge the Judiciary Committee from the further cinsideration of his enforcement bill, the Thompson- Stecer bill, which is practically a copy of the Volstead law. On the heels of his statement came another from Senator James J. Walker that he would make a simi- lar motion with regard to his 2.75 per cent. beer bill. Assemblyman Ransom H. Gillett, upon learning of this, stated that he would accept the Walker Bil as a substitute for his beer and wine bill. Senator Walker declares that he bas eight Republican Senators who wl vote with the minority on his (AH, and Senator Thompson said that he would call a conference of Re- publican Senators and endeavor to turn the conference into a caucus which will bind the Republicans to vote with the drys. But there are not @ few Republican Senators who de- clare that the Senator from Niagara cannot get the required sixteen sig- natures necessary to call a confer- ence, “What is the use of camaflouging on this beer bill?" senator Thompson be d in the Senate. “Suppose you lo pass such a measure: where are you going to get your beer from? ‘The national government has de- Glared that it is illegal to manufac- ture any beer containing more than ome half of one percent alcohol and do you suppose the Internal Revenue Department is going to permit any infraction of the law? I am wiling to stand for a liberat interpretation of the enforcement law, but let us pass only such legislation that will stand up.” After a day of ups and downs for wets and drys, nobody here is bold h to predict that an enforce- it act is going to be passed and ly will gay nay to the prospects the 3.50 per cent. beer and 10 per wine bill going through. Yes- day was supposed to be the crucial for Prohibition, but it wasn't ing of the sort. When the bat- tle was over, the wets claimed that they had made progress and there —_—_—_———_—— Neolin Week Demonstration by GOODYEAR TIRE RUBBER CO. ther used exclo- sively: same modern shoe ma~ chinery as used fn factory when S MINUTES ek. INC. “he Lorgeat ‘tn the World” ae, mice ‘6 Bese Bete sor St 3. RY Parlor Suite $109.98 Others Up to $350.00 CREDIT TERMS $50 WEEKLY [ea OPENS ROS. iCOLUMBUS AVE BET. 103 & lo4"ST, belts of the drys. ne ‘Trompson- Slac h rtually the Vol- | were ro new scalps hanging-at ‘the | | |i ulian-Gage vill by which the cebate between the drys and Wiliam D, Guthrie for the wets. Mrs. Ella A. Boole, Presi- dent of the New York State W. ©. T. J. also made a short plea for the ¢ forcement bill on bebaif of the women she represents. Wiiliam H. Anderson introdused Mr. | Wheeler and had nothing jo say fur- | ther in behalf of the cause. The As- sembly was crowded, most of the members of both Houses being there. it Is doubtful, very doubtful, if a sin- [gle vote was changed os a result of | the hearing. | “There was another report to-day that Senator George Thompson had coralled twenty-five votes in the Sen- ate to pass the enforcement bill and to block any wet bills. Senator Thompson himself is authority for the statement that there is no truth in the story. AS a matter of fact, the drys in both Houses, in view of the change of sen- timent since the enactment of the Voistead law, are disposed to be less pugnacious than they were at th opening of the session. Of cot there is pressure from up-State mostly from the women, but the big objection ts to the continuance of the saloon. One of the strongest advo- cates of the enforcement measure said to-day that if assurance could be given that the saloon was certain to be eliminated: forevermpre, the drys would be more than willing to meet the wets half way. “But the trouble is,” said th: thority, “that we canffot believe that the wets are sincere in their state- ments as to the pussing of the saloon, And the fear is that with the saloon il in existence 3.50 beer and 10 per cent. wine will simply be an opening wedge to the return of old Jahn Bar- jeycorn across the bars." And this same authority also sald that he was not sure that the enf ment act is going to be though he added that he could not understand why the State would re- fuse to pass such a measure which was already the law of the land, made so by Congress. That the Republicans are out of harmony on the question of Prohibi- tion has been again evidenced by the attitude ascribed to Secretary of State Francis M. Hugo. cret that the Secretary is a candidate | for the nomination for Governor, and! it is safd here to-day that his plat- | form for the Gubernatorial nomina- tion will be a declaration for liber- ality and tolerance on the question ot Prohibition. The Secretary was non-committal on the matter to-day when the ques- tion was flatly put up to him. There are good grounds for believing that he will make a flat declaration t night at the dinner to be given in honor in New York City. Though the majority of the thirty- five former service men in the Legis- lature favor Col. Gillett’s 3.50 beer bill the twenty-two who attended the Legion conference yesterday were al- mest unanimous in deciding not to vote as a unit on the measure. They feared that such action would make it It is no se-j THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1920. @ part of the American Legion pro- gramme. Un the other hand, when the drys n to taik of a Republican Senate ‘us to make the Thompson-Slacer e dry” act a party measure and Senator ‘Thompson actually 0 getting signatures for a call, he was warned that at including Majo would bolt. Others who declared they would not be bound by caucus to sup- port any duplicate of the Volstead aci were Senators Sage of Albany, Abels cf the Bronx, Burlingame ana’ Lo wood of Brooklyn, Karle of Queens and Swift of Eric. To add to the troubles of radical drys it was indicated during the hear nye On the enforcement bills that any measure based on the Volstead act would be vetoed by the Governor. The arguments of the hired attor- reys at the hearing were along the familiar lines, as made in every court case since the -time Prohibition law was passed. They influenced no one. One of the strongest arguments against bone-dry enforcement waa made by Wiliam H. Brady of the Manufacturers and Dealers’ League, who said he represented 1,200 firms $400,000,000 worth of property, an 360,000 employees, He said: "The workers are greatly dissatis- fied with Prohibition. They feel th have been deceived, that the dry programme has been put over on them. Our employees are 4 food a must be broad tn your interpreta- tion of what constitutes an Iintoxi- cating Hquor. The reaction against Prohibition set in immediately after the war ended, particularly with the workingman.” John Sullivan, representing 100,000 brewery workers, asserted that drastic forcoment laws would make “these law abiding men criminals.” Assemblyman Gillett said brewers and Anti-Saloon Leaguers who were lined up against each other and repfe- sented b; igh priced counsel,” con- stituted about only 10 per cent. of the persons vitally concerned over the | kind of enforcement bill to be passed. | “wait until you hear from the re- maining 90 per cent. of the people,’ said Gillett, “all of whom are inter- ested in seeing that liberal and sen- sible enforcement legislation te PaWhen the Rev. 0. R. Miller, intendent of the New York Civic , League, predicted that if th - lature put through a bone dry en- forcement bill the people would show <nelr gratitude by sending only Re- publicans to the next isinture, by groaned and guffawed. rd as ‘t. 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