Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1919 — PASS BILL OVER WILSON’S VETO [ARTICLE]

PASS BILL OVER WILSON’S VETO

HOUSE OVERRULED THE WHITE HOUSE ON THE DRY BILL 176-55 MONDAY. . • • . ■* and within three hours the house had repassed it over his veto by a vote of 176 to 55. The total vote was a bare majority of the entire membership. . z ‘ Dry leaders in the senate immediately began laying plans to repass the bill there. They expect to ask unanimous consent for its consideration today, claiming enough votes to put it through. They expect to act on it Wednesday by the latest. —The president refused to sign the bill because it included the enforcement of war time prohibition. The object of war time prohibition, the president said in his veto, has been satisfied and “sound public policy makes clear the reason and necessity for its repeal.” Tt would not be difficult, the president held, for congress to deal separately with the two issues. —The veto hit congress like a crack of lightning. The house, getting on its feet again, desereted the leaders, who wanted to defer consideration until Thursday, so as to round up all

the dry members. But the drys swept into the chamber and showed there was an overwhelming sentiment among them to give the government ample weapons for dealing with the liquor traffic, now outlawed throughput the land With the re passage of the law by the house and the prospect of the same thing in the senate, hone of the big “wet spell” that would run over the Christmas season vanished into thin air. Prohibition leaders predicted Monday that the refusal of the house to accept the president’s veto meant that the sale of liquor would not be permitted again in the life .'f ibis and many other generations.