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The Columbus Commercial
Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi
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The U.S. Senate passed a $332 million postal appropriation bill with amendments prohibiting liquor shipments into dry states and banning liquor ads in the mail, nullifying some state laws. The House will conference on changes amid debate support from local optionists.
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STATES "BONE DRY"
Decides to Wait Until Supreme
Court Passes on Legality of
Referendum.
Washington, Feb 17 Best opin-
on holds that the amendment to the
postoffice appropriation bill, which
makes it a felony for any one to order
or an agency to ship into prohibition
territory, liquor in any quantity
will be sustained by the conferees
in the part of the house and senate.
Speaker Clark is quoted as having
said that had such a proposition
been suggested in the house it would
have carried. In the senate, it re-
ceived support of local optionists
and some prohibitionists. It was
proposed by a local optionist.
An interesting feature of the de-
bate today was the opposition to the
amendment on the part of Senator
Kenyon, star actor of the prohibition
and reformation forces. If the
amendment is sustained, no more
liquor will be shipped into Alabama
as long as present laws remain in
force.
Washington, Feb. 17.—With its
added drastic prohibition legislation.
the postal appropriation bill, carry-
ing $332,000,000, was passed by the
senate yesterday after a week of
vigorous debate. It was sent back
to the house, which will ask for a
conference on the amendments.
The senate wrote into the bill a
provision making it a criminal of-
fense to ship liquor into states which
prohibit its manufacture and sale
thus nullifying the statutes of cer-
tain prohibition states permitting the
importation of limited quantities of
liquor for personal consumption.
Another provision would bar from
the mails letters, postal cards, cir-
culars, newspapers and other pro-
visions containing liquor advertising
in states having laws against such
advertising; violation to be punish-
able by a fine not to exceed $1000
or imprisonment not to exceed six
months for the first offense or more
than one year for the second offense
Determined efforts made by the
postoffice committee to increase sec-
ond class mail rates and to establish
1 cent postage on drop letters were
made and bitterly contested and the
proposals were finally thrown out on
a point of order.
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Primary Location
Washington
Event Date
Feb 17
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Outcome
postal appropriation bill carrying $332,000,000 passed by senate and sent to house for conference; amendment sustained likely, preventing liquor shipments into prohibition states like alabama; liquor advertising barred from mails with fines up to $1000 or imprisonment up to one year; mail rate increases rejected.
Event Details
Amendment to postoffice appropriation bill makes felony to order or ship liquor into prohibition territory; supported by local optionists and some prohibitionists in senate, opposed by Senator Kenyon; proposed by local optionist; senate provision criminalizes shipping liquor into states prohibiting manufacture and sale, nullifying personal importation allowances; another bars liquor ads from mails in relevant states.