Modification of Volstead Act: Hearing Before a Subcommittee... on H.R. 13742... Jan. 7, 19331933 - 119 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
3.2 per cent alcohol by volume alcohol by weight alcoholic beverages alcoholic content alcoholic liquors amount of alcohol authority BECK beer containing beverage containing beverage purposes brewed brewers cent alcohol cent beer cent by volume cent by weight cent of alcohol centum Chairman Collier bill Congress constitutional amendment constitutionality construed containing one-half cubic centimeters declared distilled drinking drunk DUNFORD effect of alcohol eighteenth amendment enacted enforcement fact intoxicating liquors judicial notice Judiciary lager beer legalize legislative discretion liquid liquor traffic malt liquors manufacture and sale matter ment national prohibition act nonintoxicating opinion option law PEABODY percentage of alcohol permit person phrase intoxicating liquor poison porter produce intoxication prohibition law question repealed scientific Senator BLAINE Senator DILL sold spirituous liquors statement statute Supreme Court tion toxic unconstitutional United United States Senate vinous Volstead Act Webb-Kenyon Act whisky WILSON wine word liquor
Popular passages
Page 2 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Arms Control and Disarmament Act Amendments in 1975".
Page 3 - Is intended by any person interested therein, to be received, possessed, sold, or In any manner used, either in the original package, or otherwise, in violation of any law of such State.
Page 19 - SECTION 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. "SEC. 2. The Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Page 20 - Each may, without interference by the other, enact laws to secure prohibition, with the limitations 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.
Page 61 - Again, another guide to the meaning of a statute is found in the evil which it is designed to remedy ; and for this the court properly looks at contemporaneous events, the situation as it existed, and as it was pressed upon the attention of the legislative body.
Page 3 - ... territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, into any other state, territory or district of the United States or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof...
Page 57 - 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.
Page 24 - ... weak, the old and the young, the well and the sick; and it is intended that if any flour, because of any added poisonous or other deleterious ingredient, may possibly injure the health of any of these, it shall come within the ban of the statute. If it cannot by any possibility, when the facts are reasonably considered, injure the health of any consumer, such flour, though having a small addition of poisonous or deleterious ingredients, may not be condemned under the act.
Page 85 - Constitution, and must be respected and given effect the same as other provisions of that instrument. 6. The first section of the Amendment — the one embodying the prohibition — is operative throughout the entire territorial limits of the United States, binds all legislative bodies, courts, public officers and individuals within those limits, and of its own force invalidates every legislative act — whether by Congress, by a state legislature, or by a territorial assembly — which authorizes...
Page 48 - 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...