Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1919 — SENATE TABLES MOTION TO SAVE BEER AND WINE. [ARTICLE]

SENATE TABLES MOTION TO SAVE BEER AND WINE.

Washington, June 18.—Certain defeat for efforts to have congress exempt beer and wine from operation of the war-time prohibition law was seen in an overwhelming vote of 55 to 11 in the senate late today against an exemption proposal. * By that margin, the senate tabled a motion by Senator Phelan, democrat, California, to add a rider to the agricultural appropriation bill for application of the war-time prohibition law to distilled .spirits alone. The sentiment of the senate thus I expressed in the first test vote of this congress was taken generally to sound the death knell for measures designed to permit the use of beer and wines under the war-time legislation. A new tack was taken in the I house, however, by advocates of sus-1 pension of the war-time* prohibition j law’s provisions, insofar as they affect beer and wines. The house judicial committee received and agreed I to vote next Saturday on an amend- I ment by Representative Gard, demo- I crat, Ohio, to the prohibition enforcement legislation which would au- j thorize the president to suspend the I war-time ban on beer and wines.