Evening star., 1914-12-23
|ENEM|ES OF LIQUOR
| DEFEATED IN HOUSE
Hobson Resolution for Pro-
hibition Amendment Fails to
Receive Needed Majority.
FIGHT TO BE CONTINUED
BY ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
Representative Henry Says Question
Is Buried for Twenty Years.
Vote, 197-1S9.

1
Hobson resolution for a prohibition
| amendment to the Constitution by Il
vote of 1877 yeas, 1S9 nays, one member
answering present. that question is
! dead for this Congress Friends of the
| resolution, however, have declared con-
sistently that they had no hope of get
| ting two-thirds of the House to vote
i for the resolution, but are gratified
| with the progress made in even getting
| a record vote of the membership of the
| House. The anti-liquor forces predict
an amendment similar to the Hobson
| amendment will be presented again in
! the next Congress, and probably will
meet with defeat; but they are pinning
| their faith and hope to the Sixty fifth
| Congress, which they believe will adopt
a nationwide prohibition amendment
1 to the Constitution.
| Vote Taken at Night Session.
| The vote on the Hobson amendment
I was taken late last night, and the
| House did not adjourn until 11:34 pm.
To have been successful, the Hobson
/ amendment needed two-thirds of those
| voting after a majority had been es-
tablished, or 25S votes.
| The 1877 votes it received, therefore,
is not full majority of the total mem
| bership of the House, which at present
| is 429. The practical question in the
view of the managers and strategists
on both sides of the question was how
much of a majority would Represent
| ative Hobson poll?' After the count
both sides seemed to be emlnently sat
| isfied with the result.
Representative Henry Of Texas, who
made one of the principal speeches
against the amendment yesterday, de-
/ <l@< 0f 1A
will bury it for twenty years. Repre-
sentatives of the Anti-Saloon League
of America declared that the temper
ance forces of the country are gratified
by the result.
State Reasons for Qualification.
"It is the first time in the history Of
the republic that the question of ma
tional prohibition has gotten upon the
floor of either branch of Congress-"
they declared. THE fact that the first
effort should show clear majority of
eight, exclusive of pairs, with both
floor leaders, the chairman of the rules
committee and the prestige of the
President and the Secretary of State
invoked against us, and in view OF the
further fact that no member of the
present Congress was elected on this
issue, is exceedingly gratifying
For the Amendment.
The votes for the Hobson amendment
were:
Abercromble, Adamson, Aiken, Alex
ander, Anderson, Anthony, Austin, Avis.
Baker, Barkley, Barton, Bell, Califor-
mia; Bell, Georgia; Borchers, Borland,
Brodbeck, Bryan, Burke, South Da-
kota; Burnett, Butler, Byrnes, South
Carolina; Byrns, Tennessee.
Campbell, Gambler, Mississippi; Cara
way, Carr, Carter, Clark. Florida; Col
her, Connolly, Kansas; Copley, Cram
Decker, Deitrick, Dershem. Dickin-
son, Difenderfer, Dillon, Doolittle,
Dunn.
talson, Falconer, Farr, Ferguson.
Ferris, Fess, Fields, Finley, Flood, Vir-
ginia; Floyd, Arkansas; Fordney. Fos-
ter, Fowler. FSancis, French.
Garrett, Texas, uIass, ooou, Goodwin,
Arkansas; Green, Iowa; Griest, Gudger.
Hamilton, Michigan; Hamilton, New
York; Hamlin, Harrison, Haugen.
Hawley, hay. HAYDEN, helsesen. aelIn,
hobson, Holland, Houston, Howard.
Hoxworth, Hughes, Georgia; Huilngs,
Hull, Humphrey, Washington; Hum
phreys, Mississippi.
son, South Carolina; johnson, Wash
ington; Jones.
heatins, neister, Kelley. Michigan
Kelly, pennsylvania; kennedy, Iowa;
kiess, Pennsylyania; kindel kinkald,
Nebraska; kirkpatrick, Kitchin,
krelder.
Lafferty, La Toilette, Langham,
Langley, Lever, Lewis, Maryland. Lew
is. Pennsylvania; Lindbergh. Lindquist,
Lloyd.
McKellar. Mckenzie. Mclaughlin,
Macdonald. Mapes. Mondell, Moon,
Morgan, oklahoma; Moss. West Vir-
Neeiy, West Virginia; Nelson. Nor
ton.
o'Hair. oldfeld
Padgett, Page. North Carolina; Park,
Patton, Pennsylvania; I Peters, Plumley
Quinn.
Ragsdale. Rainey. Rakor, Rubey,
Rucker. Rupley. Russell
Saunders. seldomridge. Sells. shackle-
ford, shreve. Sims. sinnott. sisson,
Slemp, Sloan, Smith, Idaho; Smith,
Maryland; Smith. J. Nj. c.; Smith, sam
uel W.; Smith. Texas; Sparkman, Sted-
man, Steenerson. Stephens. California;
Stephens, Mississippi; Stephens, Texas;
Stout. Sutherland, Switzer.
l. Taggart. Tavenner, Taylor, Alabama;
Temple. Thomas. Thompson, Oklahoma;
Thomson. Illinois; Towner. Tribble.
Volstead.
Walker. wallin. Walters, Watkins.
w dtSou, " "SdfSF, "euD, Wnaiey, White,
Willis. Wfngo. Woodruff, Woods.
Young. North Dakota; Young Texas
Against the Amendment.
The votes against it were:
Adair, Allen. Aswell,
Bailey, Barchfeld, Barnhart, Bar
| tholdt, Bartlett. Bathrick. Beakes,
Blackmon. Booher. Bowdle. Britten.
Brockson. Broussard, Brown, New York; ;
Browne. Wisconsin; Browning, Bruck-
ner. Buchanan, Illinois; Buchanan,
Texas: Bulkley. Burgess, Burke, Wis
consin;
Galloway. Cantor, cantrin, carew.
Carlin, Cary. Casey. Chandler. New
York; Church, Clancy. Cline, Coady,
Conry, Cooper, Coz. Crosser, Cullop,
Dale. Danforth, Davis. Dent, Dies
Dixon. Donohoe, Donovan. Dooling.
Doremus. Driscoll. Drukker. Dupre.
Eagan. Eagle, Edmonds. Esch Es-
topinal, Fitzgerald. FitzHenry. Frear.
Garner. George, Gerry. Gill. Giilett, Gil
more, Cooke, Goidfogie, Gordon, Goul-
den. Graham, Illinois; Gray, Greene,
Massachusetts,; Greene. Vermont;
Griffin,
Hamill. Hammond, Hardy, Hart,
Hayes, Hefiin. Henry. Hill, Howell.
Johnson Utah;
Kahn, Kennedy. Connecticut; Ken
nedy. Rhode Island: Kent, Kettner,
Key, Ohio: Kinkead, New Jersey:
Knowland, J. r.; Korbly.
Lazaro, Lee, Georgia; Lee. Pennsyl-