Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. HOUSE PASSES DRY BILL 5282-128 ■ <X Senate Must Accept 7-Year Ratification, Then Up to Legislatures. Washington, December 17. —Na-tion-wide prohibition won in the house today arid only the adjustment of a slight difference in resolutions between the house and sebate now stands in the way of submitting to state legislatures an amendment to the federal constitution forbidding the manufacture, sale or importation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes in the United States or its territories. The vote in the house, taken after a day of debate before crowded galleries, was 282 to 128, with the parties dividing almost evenly. The margin for prohibition was just eight votes more than the necessary two-thirds of the membership of the house required for adoption, and twenty-six more than two-thirds of those voting. The resolution adopted by the house is identical with that passed by the senate last August, except that it gives the states seven years instead of six in which to ratify the amendment. Senator Sheppard, author of the resolution, predicted tonight that the senate would accept the amendment tomorrow. He said he had assurances that the seven-year period would be approved, arid that he did not believe a foil call necessary.