A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > District of Columbia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=323 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=31324 Submitted by: barbara-dave Article Title: Washington Post Article Date: April 8 1912 Article Description: Wilfley Page 12 Article Text: Washington Post April 8, 1912 Wilfley Page 12 URGES EXCISE LEGISLATION. Rev. Dr. Wilfley Attacks Commissioners for Stand They Have Taken. The District commissioners were severely criticized last night for their attitude toward proposed liquor legislation, now pending before Congress, by the Rev. Earl WILFLEY, pastor of Vermont Avenue Christian Church. Mr. WILFLEY said the commissioners "were trifling or something worse." How the commissioners could say that there were no demands for such reforms as are proposed in the Works bill was inconceivable, he said, in the face of the agitation that had been going on in Washington this winter. "Why the commissioners offer a substitute bill for the Works measure is a matter I cannot understand," continued Mr. WILFLEY. He urged members of the congregation to sign petitions which had been forwarded to him by the Rev. S. H. WOODROW, and which urged the passage of the Works measure. He also spoke in favor of the Works bill. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com