Proposed Modification of the Prohibition Law to Permit the Manufacture, Sale and Use of 2.75 Per Cent Beverages: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Sixty-eighth Congress, First Session

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Страница 240 - York, as their medical department, under the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons In the City of New York.
Страница 288 - We have here two sovereignties, deriving power from different sources capable of dealing with the same subject-matter within the same territory. Each may, without interference by the other, enact laws to secure prohibition, with the limitation that no legislation can give validity to acts prohibited by the amendment. Each government in determining what shall be an offense against its peace and dignity is exercising its own sovereignty, not that of the other.
Страница 336 - liquor " or the phrase " intoxicating liquor " shall be construed to include alcohol, brandy, whisky, rum, gin, beer, ale, porter, and wine, and in addition thereto any spirituous, vinous, malt, or fermented liquor, liquids, and compounds, whether medicated, proprietary, patented, or not, and by whatever name called, containing one-half of 1 per centum or more of alcohol by volume which are fit for use for beverage purposes...
Страница 342 - It is also well established that, when a State, exerting its recognized authority, undertakes to suppress what it is free to regard as a public evil, it may adopt such- measures having reasonable relation to that end as it may deem necessary in order to make its action effective.
Страница 230 - Sciences, edited by Hobart Amory Hare, MD, Professor of Therapeutics, Materia Medica and Diagnosis, in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia...
Страница 296 - No person shall on or after the date when the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States goes into effect, manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized in this Act, and all the provisions of this Act shall be liberally construed to the end that the use of intoxicating liquor as a beverage may be prevented.
Страница 307 - The use of intoxicants by employes while on duty is prohibited. Their use, or the frequenting of places where they are sold, is sufficient cause for dismissal.
Страница 296 - There is in this position an assumption of a fact which does not exist, that when the liquors are taken in excess the injuries are confined to the party offending. The injury, it is true, first falls upon him in his health, which the habit undermines; in his morals, which it weakens; and in the self-abasement which it creates. But as it leads to neglect of business and waste of property and general demoralization it affects those who are immediately connected with and dependent upon him.
Страница 491 - In it the world has found a solution of the long-mooted problem as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind.
Страница 1 - Beer" shall mean any beverage obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of an infusion or decoction of barley, malt and hops or of any similar products in drinkable water and containing, unless otherwise expressly provided, more than three and two-tenths per centum of alcohol by weight; this definition shall include ale, porter and stout; (d) "Board...

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