Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1919 — CABLE WILSON ASKING THAT HE STOP DRY ERA. [ARTICLE]

CABLE WILSON ASKING THAT HE STOP DRY ERA.

Washington, D. C., June 10.— (Special.)—Representative Dyer, of Missouri, republican, by cable today requested President Wilson to issue a proclamation' declaring the war ended and demobilization completed to prevent war-time prohibition from going into effect, go far as it pertains to Beer and light wines. In his cable Mr. Dyer asked the president for an immediate statement as to his intentions in this respect, on the ground that the people of the United States are entitled to know at the earliest moment possible whether war-time prohibition is to become effective. The cable, in pant, says: “The judiciary committee of the house of representatives, of which I am a member, 'has been considering bills to carry out your recommendation to repeal the recent act of congress providing for prohibition July 1, so as to except beer and light wines. The matter has developed far enough in our committee for me to be able to state definitely that there is no opportunity in our committee to obtain favorable report on. such a “I feel, therefore, that you should exercise the authority, which I am sure you possess, to issue a proclamation to the effect that the war is ended and that demobilization of troops has been complied with sufficiently to meet the law and, therefore, there is it 6 need for the wartime prohibition, so far as it affects light wines and beer, to go into effect.”