New Britain herald., 1917-08-02
SENATE VOTES FOR
 'DRY' AMENDMENT
Easy Victory for Prohibition Ele-
 ment-C0unt Is 66 to 20.

Washington, Aug. By a vote of 65 to 20 the senate yesterday put through the Sheppard resolution call ing for vote of the legislatures of the 4S states upon constitutional amendment for nationwide prohibi- tion. ,s The senate tackled a proviso to
 the resolution requiring that the nec- essary three-fourths vote Of the states
 must be taken within six years,
 otherwise the resolution dies auto-
 matically.
 The Sheppard resolution now goes
 to the house. where for it's passage
 two- thirds vote is necessary, as in
 the senate Chairman Webb of the
 house judiciary committee said last
 night that he would move the resolu- tion out of committee today and that it's speedy passage in the house was assured
 Representative Webb, himself an
 ardent prohibitionist strongly inclines toward nation bone-dry legisla- tion and that there would undoubt- edly be large majority in favor of it. The attitude of the house toward prohibition was reflected in the vote on the bone-dry amendment put in the food administration bill six weeks ago, which was put through by a l majority of approximately 25. But the "dry'' majority is far beyond that, many of the "drys'' voting against prohibition in the food bill on the ground that it had no place in that measure.
 The Sheppard resolution doesn't re- quire the signature of the president if
 passed by the house as it is a joint product of senate and house conferees. If the house accepts it the resolution has the effect of a law. Each state
 legislature would have six years from the time of it's passage in the house to vote for its ratification. If at the expiration of the six years three fourths of the states have not adopted it, the resolution becomes ! void.
 The Resolution. Here is the resolution as passed with the six-year time-limit clause: Joint Resolution, proposing an amendment to the Constitu tion of the United States: Resolved by the Senate and ! House of Representative of the l the United States of America in - Congress assembled (two-thirds 1 of each house concurring there 1 in.) That the following amend ment to the Constitution be and l hereby is proposed to the States l to become valid a part of the l Constitution when ratified by the | Legislature of the several States as provided by the Constitution: 1 Section 1-The manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxi- eating liquors within, the inn portation thereof into, or the ex- 1 portation thereof from the Unit ed States and all territories slhb- | ject to the jurisdiction thereof. l for beverage purposes is here by prohibited.
 ] Section 2-This article shall be l in operative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to 1 the Constitution by the Legisla- 1 lures of the several states, as l provided in the Constitution, l within six years from date of the ] submission thereof to the States 1 by the Congress-
 l Section 3.-The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legis- lation.
 How the Vote Was Recorded. The vote. in which party lines were
 entirely disregarded, was as follows: 1 For the esolution-Democrats: ! Ashurst, Arizona; Bankhead, Alaba-
 ma; Beckham, Kentucky; Cham ber- ] lain, Oregon; Fletcher, Florida; Gore,
 Oklahoma; Hollis, New Hampshire; 1 Jones, New Mexico; Kendrick, Wyo-
 ming; King Utah; Kirby, Arkansas; l McKellar, Tennessee; Martin, Vir- l ginia; Myers Montana; Newlands | Nevada; Overman, North Carolina; l Owen, Oklahoma; Pittsman, Nevada;
 Ransdell, Louisiana; Robinson, Ar
 kansas; Salisbury, Delaware; Sha- froth, Colorado; Sheppard, Taxas;
 Shields, Tennessee; Simmons North l Georgia; Smith, South Carolina:
 Stone. Missouri; Swanson, Virginia; 1 Thompson, Kansas: Trammel, Flori- 1 da; Vardaman, Mississippi; Walsh.
 Montana; Williams, Mississippi, and Wolcott, Delaware-36. Republicans:
 Borah, Idaho; Brady, Idaho; Colt,
 Rhode Island; Cummins, Iowa. Curtis, l Kansas; Fernald, Maine; Frelinghuy-
 sen, New Jersey; Gronna, North Da- 1 kota; Hale, Maine; Harding, Ohio; 1 Johnson, California; Jones, Washing l ton; Kellogg, Minnesota: Kenyon.
 Iowa; Knox. Pensylvania; LaFollette, 1 Wisconsin,; McCumber, North Dako- 1 ta; ~McNary, Oregon; New, Indiana: l Nelson Minnesota; Norris, Nebras aska; l Page, Vermont; Poindexter, Washing
 ton; Sherman, Illinois; Smith, Michi- l gan; Smpot, Utah; Sterling South Da-
 kota; Sutherland West Virginia, and ] Watson, Indiana.-29.
 Against the esolution--Democrats: l BrOuSSard. LOuiSana: Culhersnn Tex-