■HREE BIG BILLS
I BEFORE HOUSE
Vote Looked For on Pro-
Hhibition, Living Probe and
K Suffrage
Deo. IB.—The House
Committee acted yesterday
■i three of the paramount Issues be-
CongTess—nation-wide prohlbl-
Hn, woman suflrnge and the high
■st of living.
committee reported favorably
resolution providing for an
to the Constitution for
prohibition and the Borland
for an Inquiry Into the high
■st of living. It reported without
the constitutional
Hnendmcnt for woman autfrage.
■ Action on these three measures
Hme a? a surprise. Advocates of
and woman suffrage have
Ben trying for more than two years
get these resolutions out of the com-
that a vote on them might be
the responsibility for them on
whole body of the House instead
carrying it on their own shoulders
another session is thought to have
the motive which Inspired the
of the committee to report
Hem.
■ Chairman Webb, one of the leading
H*ohlbltionists In the House, hald he
■ouid bring the prohibition amend
■ent to a vote at an early date, but
■ould not ask for action on the suf-
Hage amendment Representative
■ard, of Ohio, an opponent of suffrage
■as selected to write the report on the
■iffrage amendment, while Represen
tative Carlin, of Virginia, a supporter
■t the prohibition measure, is to re
■ort that resolution.
9 Text of Proliibition Amendment
■ The proposed prohibition amend
■ ent follows:
■ Section ?. That the sale, manufac
■ire for sale, transportation for sale
■ad importation for sale of intoxicat
■ g liquors for beverage purposes in
■ o United States and all territories
■ib.lect to the Jurisdiction thereof and
■vporatlon thereof are forever prohi
bited.
fl Section 2. That the Congress and
■ic States shall have power independ
■ltly or concurrently to enforce this
■ tide by all needful legislation.
■ How far the resolution will progress
■ rough the various legislative stages
■t this session is problematical, but
■.dmlnlstratlon leaders doubt that It
■•111 reach the Senate in time for ac
■on at this session. Prohibition ad
■oeates are Jubilant and predict ref
erence of the amendment to the legis
■ttures o fthe various States at a much
■arlier date than they heretofore had
■ oped for. A two-thirds majority in
■oth houses is required.
■ Coincident with the committee's ac
■on on the amendment the prohlbl-
Bon Issue was brought directly to the
■ttention of the Senate when the
■heppard bill to prohibit the manu
facture and sale of liquor in the Dis
trict of Columbia became the unfinish
ed business, to be kept before the Sen
ate until disposed of.
I Seven members of the Judiciary
■ommlttee voted against reporting the
■rohlbltlon amendment. They were
Bard of Ohio, Dyer of Missouri, Igo
■f Missouri, Graham and Steel of
■•ennsylvanla; Walsh of Massachueetts
■.nd Danforth of New York.
Suffragists Also Pleased
Both suffragists and antl-sufTragists
'xpressed satisfaction over yesterdav's
levelopment. Though anxious tliat
he suffrage resolution be reported
avorably, the suffragists were pleased
>ecause the committee which gener
illy was regarded as hopelessly
igainst their cause, went as far as it
lid. On the other hand, their op
lonents declare an opportunity to have
he House vote on the Issue Inevitably I
neans a defeat for suffrage which will j
lettle the question nationally for
nanv years. The vote in favor of re
lorting the resolution, eleven to eight,
loes not represent the sentiment of
he committee on the issue. Some of
ts bitterest enemies voted favorably,
nost of them confident of seeing it
>eaten on the floor and desirous of
luletlng charges of "smothering" in
committee.
The suffrage resolution follows:
Section 1. The right of citizens of
he United States to vote shall not be
lenied or abridged by the United
States or by any State on account of
lex.
Section 2. Congress shall have
lower by appropriate legislation to
n force the provisions of this article.
'inartistic" Charge Made
Against Bryn Mawr Girls
Bryn Mawr, Pa., Dec. 15. Bryn
Mawr College girls are not artistic, 'at
least only one-flfth of them can lay
rial mto the artistic sense, according
to a report made to Professor King
by her class in modern painting at the
Main Line institution. The class
made a survey of the girls' rooms at
the college and based their report on
the decorative schemes thereof.
Only twenty per cent, of the rooms
the report says, were "in good taste "
with forty-two per cent, regarded as
"bad" and thirty-seven per cent
marked "Indifferent." Nothing is said i
in the report about the other one per I
cent, of the rooms.
GARDNER OPPOSES PEACE I
Resolution Seeks to Commit United'
States to Nonintervention
Washington, Dec. 15. A protest
against mediation by the United States
In the European war and participa
tion in the promoting "an unjust
peace" was embodied in a resolution
Introduced In the House yesterday by
Representative Augustus P. Gardner
of Massachusetts, who asserted that
"a premature and inconclusive peace
would fail to punish the Central
Powers for the unbounded misery
which they have brought on mankind
The Gardner resolution seeks to
commit Congress to a statement that
the "Untted States would neither di
rectly nor indirectly suggest to the
Entente Allies that they accept media
tion, and, furthermore, it is the opin
ion of the Congress that the United
States ought to refuse to participate
in promoting an unjust peace."
Mr. Gardner says there should be
no peaco until Germany restores
"every acre of land" to the despoiled
nations, until ample indemnities have
been paid and until, by disarmament
and dlsbandment, Germany shall de
clare that a peace treaty is something
more than "a scrap of paper."
AMERICAN KILLED IN JUAREZ
Executed by Carranza Officers Rad
Been With Villa
El Paso, Tex., Dec. 15. Alfonso
Leiva, an American citizen, formerly
of Brownsville, Tex., was put to death
in Juarez by the military authorities
on October 21, according to a report
brought here by an American. Letva
was a former Villa lieutenant colonel
and according to this American, who
was in jail with him, asked that a let
ter be sent to his aged mother in
Brownsville, Tex., telling of his fate.
According to this American, an ef
fort was made by Leiva to obtain a
pardon because of his American eiti
enshlp, but he was told he had for
ffited his citizenship when he Joined
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