Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1919 — INDIANA HOUSE VOTES DRY [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HOUSE VOTES DRY

OTHER STATES COMPLETE RATIFICATION, BRINGING TOTAL UP TO 31.' Indiana joined the list of those that have ratified the Federal prohibition amendment yesterday when the House, by a vote of 87 to 11, passed the joint resolution adopted by the upper House today. ~ The Indiana resolutiongoes back to the Senate to be enrolled, after which it wiHbecertified by Secretary of State William A. Roach, who will -notify Washington of the action of the Indiana General Assembly. The resolution was passed in the House under suspension of the rules, as was the case when-it came up for passage jn the Senate.

A hearty round of applause folowed the announcement of the vote, but few spectators were present when the roll was called and there was no speech-making. Representative Sambor of Lake county refused to vote on the motion to suspend the rules and then took the floor to protest against the action of the House in not permittiing the measure to go through the usual channels before adoption The speaker then instructed that hisyate be recorded as “no.” The opposition to the dry amend-.

ment was centered almost entirely in Evansville, Terre Haute, and the cities in Lake county. Only three of the eleven voting against the resolution did not come from one of these communities -Axiby of Lawrenceburg, burg, Frick of Huntington and Overmeyer of Kouts. Senate joint resolution No. 2, the dry amendment, was handed down by Speaker Eschbach and Representative Johnson of Grant County moved to suspend the rules for its immediate passage. Six members voted against suspension of the rules :Decker, Muensterman, Rowbottom and Sambor, Republicans, and O’Leary and O’Neil, Democrats. Ninety-two voted—for suspension of the rules. Three members of the House Who voted in favor of the dry amendment yesterday werememlbers of the General Assembly at th speial sssion of 1908, which passed the county local option measure. They were speaker Eschbach and Representative Morgan of Columbus and Green of Deedsville. At that time every avaiiaible inch of space was taken by a frenzied crowd of spectators, while yesterday there was little to indicate that anything outside the usual routine was taking place.