Livro Prohibiting Intoxicating Beverages (1-3); Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: This 'committee was then appointed, and after the appointment of the subcommittee this communication was sent to Mr.

James: June 9, 1919. Mr. N. A. James, Secreta.ru, Washington Central Labor Union. 606 Fifth Street, NW., Washington, D. C. My Dear Sir: On behalf of the committee, I write to say that the bills (8.

555, S. 611 and S. 890) to prohibit the liquor traffic and to provide for the enforcement of such prohibition and the war prohibition act were to-day referred to the following 'subcommittee: Messrs.

Sterling, chairman, Fall, Norris, Overman and Walsh of Montana. Senator Sterling, chairman of the subcommittee, has called a meeting, in respanse to the request of the Central Labor Union of Washijigton, to hear the protests of the delegates of organized labor, for 2 o'clock p.

m., June 14. By direction of the chairman. Very truly yours, Paul Sieman, Asistant clerk. It is in pursuance of these communications that this meeting for this afternoon is called, and the committee is ready to hear any representative of organized labor who desires to iwesent his views.

Let me say, in addition to what the reply to Mr. James set forth in regard to the three bills which he mentions, that I think?it would be my suggestion, at least?that this subcommittee should take as the basis of their work what is known as the Nelson bill, Senate bill 896, it being the same as the Volstead bill which was introduced in the House, and is now the basis for the House committee's work.

The three bills agree, I think, in nearly all essentials. I wish to say, also, that Senator King was added to the subcommittee subsequent to the appointment 01 the original subcommittee.

Mr. Gompers, did you desire to be heard ? Mr. Gompers. Yes, sir. Senator Sterling. The committee will hea...