Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1914 — “DRY” AMENDMENT DEFEATED IE HOUSE [ARTICLE]

“ DRY” AMENDMENT DEFEATED IE HOUSE

Showed Surprising Strength, However, and Has Thrown Great Scare into Interests. Whiskey, beer and alcoholic manufacturers have been given a big scare. Tuesday when the Hobson amendment providing for the submission of a constitutional amendment for national prohibition to the state legislatures came to a vote it received a majority of votes in the house, only being lost because a, two-thirds majority is required. The champions o>f the measure are pleased with the result and the fight will be renewed and this means of stopping the debauchery and the crime wrought by liquor should be its eventual undoing. It is fortunate that the fight in the house was not made on political lines. It is likewise a pity that Representatives Underwood and Mann, respectively the democratic and republican floor leaders, worked shoulder to shoulder against the passage of the resolution. It also is plain that the thirteen democratic congressmen from Indiana are paying tribute to the gang in control in this state for they all voted against the resolution. Representative Morrison, of Frankfort, said that he could point out a man who would vote for the resolution who drank more liquor in twelve days than -the thirteen Indiana congressmen would in twelve years. This was aimed as a joke, but is poor justification for the support of the liquor interests by these thirteen congressmen. The drinking representative who voted for the amendment is responsible only for himself it he drinks, while these thirteen congressmen are responsible to every unhappy home in Indiana for their vote against the caues of prohibition. The vote in the house was 197 for the amendment, 189 against it. To have carried would have required 61 more votes. Voting for it were 114 democrats, 68 republicans, 4 independent republicans and 11 progressives.