Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1919 — MICHIGAN IS SIXTEENTH [ARTICLE]

MICHIGAN IS SIXTEENTH

legislature ratifies the amendment providing FOR a "DRY” NATION. Lansing, Jan. 3.—The Michigan legislature Has ratified the amendment to the Constitution providing for a ’‘dry” nation. Both houses adopted the resolution without debate and the only opposition came In the house, where three votes were cast against the proposal. i Michigan is the sixteenth state to ratify the proposed prohibition amendment to the federal Constitution. Twenty more states must take similar action to adopt the amendment as proposed by the congress. The first four state sto act favorably were in the south and nearly half of the sixteen adopting states are south of the Ohio river. Only five states west of the Mississippi river have taken action, while Michigan makes the fourth state north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi to ratify. Those states which have ratified since Virginia first ratified on January 13, 1918, are: Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Dacota, Maryland, Montana, Arizona, Delaware, Texas, South Dakota, Massachusetts, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida and Michigan.