Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1917 — House Votes to Abolish Saloons in District of Columbia. [ARTICLE]

House Votes to Abolish Saloons in District of Columbia.

Washington, Feb. 28.—Prohibition champions won their fight in the house tonight for the senate bill abolishing saloons in the District of Columbia after Nov. 1. The measure passed by a vote of 273 to 137 and was sent to the president, who is expected to sign it. Conferees on the postoffice appropriation bill late tonight agi-eed upon a report, thus virtually assuring passage of the Reed “bone dry” amendment barring the shipment of liquor into prohibition states.