Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1919 — 38 STATES ARE NOW ‘ON WAGON’ [ARTICLE]

38 STATES ARE NOW ‘ON WAGON’

Nebraska Has the Honor of Putting Prohibition “Over the Top.” THIRTY-SIXTH TO VOTE YES Unitsd States Thus Goes on Record ■s the First Great Power to Doom Rum Forever—Great Btocke In \ Bonded Warehouses. Washington, Jan. 17.— Ratification of the federal Constitutional prohibition amendment made the United States the first great power to take legislative action permanently to stop the liquor truffle. * Nebraska’s vote guve the necessury afllrniative three-fourths majority of the states to make effective the amendment submitted by congress In December, 1917. It was followed by similar action in the legislatures of Missouri and Wyoming, making 38 states In ail which have upproved a dry America. These States Voted Dry. Mississippi. Idaho. North Dakota. Tennessee. Montana. Illinois. South Dakota. Alabama. Georgia. Colorado. Maine. Utah. Michigan. Kentucky. Washington. Maryland. Arkansas. Delaware. North Carolina. Arizona. lowa. Florida. New Hampshire. Oklahoma. Missouri. West Virginia. Virginia. California. South Carolina. Indiana. » Texas. Kansas. —> Massachusetta Oregon. Louisiana. Nebraska. Ohio. Wyoming. Affirmative action by some of the ten state legislatures yet to act Is predicted by prohibition advocates. Dry Nation *>n July 1. Under the terms of the amendment, the manufacture, sale, and Importation of Intoxicating liquors must cease one yenr after ratification, hut prohibition will bo a fact In every state much earlier because bf the war measure forbidding the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages after June 30 until the demobilization of the military forces Is completed. Under the war-time measure, exportation of liquor is permitted, but the great stocks now held In bonded warehouses will have to be disposed of before the federul amendment becomes effective. No Formal Notice Needed. Discussion as to whether the new amendment becomes a part of the Constitution now that 30 states have ratified It f)r whether It becomes a part of the basic law only when each state has Certified Its action to the secretary of state led to a search for precedent, which showed that the only two amendments ratified In the last half century providing for Income taxes and direct election of senators were considered effective immediately the thirty-sixth state had taken affirmative action. , Senator Sheppard, author of the prohibition amendment, held that na tlonal prohibition becomes a permanent fact January 16, 1920. Only Fourteen States Certify. Only 14 of the states have certified their action to the state department. The vote of the Mississippi legislature, the first to act, has not been received at the state department. Proclamation of the ratification of a new amendment (s made, but this was said to be a formality and not a requisite part of changing the Constitution. New problems of government are raised by prospective stoppage of the manufacture and, sale of Intoxicating liquor, as hundreds of millions of dollars derived from internal uevenue will have to be obtained from other sources. Laws-for enforcement of the amendment also will* have to be passed by congress, e