The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-12-31
PROHIBITION FIGHT LOST.
HOBSON RESOLUTION FAILS BY
81 VOTES.
South Carolina Delegation Votes
Solidly to Submit Constitution
al Amendment.

Washington, Dec 22.-The Hob
son resolution to submit constitu-
tional amendment for national pro-
hibition to the State legislatures was
defeated in the house tonight, 1877
members voting for and 1S9 against
it.
An affirmative vote of two-thirds
was required to adopt the resolu-
ton.
Immediately after announcement
of the vote the house adjourned, the
crowd that had packed the galleries
throughout the prolonged debate dis
persing with mingled expression OF
regret and jubilation.
Prohibition leaders declared the
vote of 1877 for the resolution had
come up to their expectations.
Whether a similar resolution submit
ted by Senator Sheppard, of Texas,
would reach a vote in the senate at
this session was not certain tonight.
Administration leaders were inclined
: to believe it would not, because it
could not pass the house.
Notwithstanding repeated public
assertions that many members of the
house would try to dodge record
vote, the roll-call disclosed larger
attendance than the average through
out the session. To have carried the
house the Hobson resolution would
have required 25S affirmative votes.
It thus failed to carry by 81 votes.
After Long Debate.
After more than ten hours of de-
bate the house of representatives,
shortly before midnight tonight, was
ready for a roll-call on the Hobson
resolution to submit to the States an
amendment for national prohibition.
1t was at the conclusion of the
most stirring of recent days in con-
gress, and after votes on several
amendments, that the final vote was
reached. Representative Hobson
had closed the general debate, par
ticipated in by all the house leaders.
Although advocates of the resolu-
tion predicted it would receive ma
jority vote, many of them, including
Mr.. Hobson. conceded that it would
not receive the two-thirds necessary
for passage.
First Indications.
First indications Of the lineup OF
the house on the prohibition consti-
tutional amendment came to roll
call tonight on an amendment pro-
posed by Republican Leader Mann.
which would have submitted the
amendment to State conventions in
stead of to State legislatures, as the
Hobson resolution prescribes. Two
hundred and ten voted with Hobson
against the amendment and one hun
dred and seventy-six voted for it.
It was ten o'clock when the vote
was taken, after ten hours of de-
BATE
In a rising vote, taken previously,
1913 voted against the Mann amend
ment and 1877 for it.
Henry, of Texas.
Representative Henry, of Texas,
opposed the amendment.
This question is one which must
be left to the individual State" he
said, land l venture to predict that
after this amendment is voted on
here today the question Of prohibit
tion will appear on the floor as a
national issue for twenty years.
Il love my country, but | Will
never support constitutional amend
ment that will send horde of fed
eral spies, satraps and intermed-
dlers into Texas"
Representative Helfin, of Alabama,
declared State control of the liquor
traffic was making good progress in
Alabama, and argued against sur
rendering powers of the States which
saved the South in the days of re-
construction"
Defended Saloon.
Representative Bartholdt, Of Mis-
souri,, defended the saloon as an in
stitution, declaring he knew of sa-
looms where a gentleman would not
hesitate to take his wife and daugh-
ters.'
You cannot cure the demand for
drink by cutting off the supply he
said.
What right has the prohibitionist
from the corn fields of Kansas, the
cotton fields of Georgia or the sea-
coast of Maine to tell the steel work
er, who faces a temperature of g.
500 degrees at the furnace door, that
he shall not have his beer when his