Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-01
PASSED OVER VETO
House Follows Senate'S Action
on Webb Bill.
FINAL VOTE is 244 TO 95
Measure Prohibits Liquor Shipments
Into Prohibition States.
DEBATE LASTS FORTY MINUTES
Second Time in Last Fifteen Years
That Congress Has 0verridden
Presidential Action.
DEBATE LASTS FORTY MINUTES

The House today followed the lead OF
the Senate and passed the Webb bill. pro-
hibiting shipments of liquor into prohibit
tion states over the Presidents veto.
The vote was oi4 to %, with , voting
present
The bill will now become a law.
AS soon as the House assembled Rep
resentative Clayton, chairman OF the
judiciary committee called up the DILL
and the President veto message was
read. He then moved to pass the bill
over the Presidents veto. After a de-
bate lasting forty minutes the bill was
passed
Only one other time in the last fifteen
years has Congress overridden Presi-
dents veto. That was when the Rainey
River dam bill was passed over Presi-
dent Roosevelt's disapproval
The bill was repassed in the Sen
ate yesterday, over President Tafts
veto, within two hours from the
time the Presidents message of dis
approval had been laid before that body
short debate in which the advocates
of the bill voted down a motion to post
pone action until today, and in which they
reaffirmed their belief that the measure Is
constitutional. ended with the repassage
of the bill by the large majority of 65
to 81.
Passed Ten Days Ago.
The Webb bill passed both houses of
Congress and went to the President ten
days ago. His veto message reached the
Senate about 3 o'clock yesterday, accom-
panied by an opinion from Attorney Gen.
eral Wickersham. Basing his decision
upon the Attorney Generals findings, the
President expressed the belief that the
measure was clearly unconstitutional be
cause it gave the states the right TO m
terfere with interstate commerce.
Senator McCumber declared both the
President and the Attorney General had
misconstrued the grounds upon which
Congress had passed the prohibition law
He said it had no. attempted to give the
states the right to interfere with COM
merce but had simply declared liquor an
OUTLAW and had then prescribed condi-
tons under which ii might enter inter-
state commerce.
The Vote on Taft's Veto.
The vote follows:
To override the Presidents veto-Sena-
tors Ashurst Borah, Brady. Bristow.
Brown. Bryan Burnham. Burton, Cham
berlain, Chiffon. Clapp. Clarke tArk.p.
Crawford Culberson. Cullom. cummins,
Curtis. Dillingham; Dixon, FAN. Fletcher,
Gallinger, Gamble, Gardner. Gore,
Gronna. Jackson. Johnson. Johnston.
Jones' Kavanaugh, Kenyon. herl Lea,
lodge. McCumber Martin, Myers, Nelson.
Newlands. Oliver, Overman. owen, Page,
Pittman. Poindexter. Sheppard. Shively.
simmons Smith (Ariz.), Smith tGal.
Smith Md. Smith tMich.l. smith, g.
C1 Smoot. Swanson. Thomas. Thornton.
Tilman, Townsend, Webb. Williams and
Works. Total, t3
To sustain the observation-disclosures
Bradley Brandegee. Catron. Crane. du
Pont, Foster, Guggenhelm, Mclean Mar
tine O'Gorman. Paynter. Penrose Percy
Perkins Pomerene. Richardson. Root,
Stephenson. Sutherland, Warren and Wet
more. Total, n.
Called Unconstitutional by Taft.
In his veto message the President said: