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FINAL VOTE ON LIQUOR
IN HOUSE WEDNESDAY
Mary land NcarS Abolition of IntOXi-
eating DrinkS-NloTe Converts in
The House.

State House, Annapolis, Feb s.
The General Assembly today took
two steps nearer the column O.
States which have ratified the pro-
! hibitiOn amendment to the Federal
/ Constitution. The House, quickly
i following its action of yesterday IN
! rejecting the referendum amend
ment and in adopting the favorable
report, today passed the Joint rtso-
| luton by a vote of So to IS.
The next step was in the Senate,
| which. by vote of 10 to Z, suDsti-
| tuted the resolution for the unfaVoT-
| able report, and then made final aC-
| ton a special order for Wednesday
next. The vote in the Senate today
! tells what is coming next week.
The resolution went through the
House Without 4 speech for or
against it. Its advocates and OPP
ponents had exhausted themselves
on Thursday. Two vain efforts were
made 10 adjourn until Tuesday
night, but the Anti-Saloon League
was in the saddle and would not
permit its followers to return home
until the resolution had been adop-
ted
The following was the vote in de-
Tail for and against the ratification
resolution:
For: Speaker Wooden, Messrs.
Uric, Willis, Melvin, Linthicum, Rod
gers, SOlley. Hance, DOwell, Edelen,
H. W. Dawson, Adams Massey, Muir
reIl, Phoebus, Brown, McAllister,
Waddell, Claggett, Merrick, Ander-
son, Lefiler. Butler, Ryland Dennis,
Robertson, Delaplaine, Kline, Pal
mer, Rice, Splitter, Covey, Wright,
Eyernham, Wann, Fox, Stouffer, Cor
bett, Strife, Tenney, Yourtree, Co.
shell. FaWcetT, Jones, Burdette,
Campbell, Conrad, Robinson, Ely,
Kephart, Leatherwood, Stinson, Ben
nett, Powell, Williams, Selby, Vein
er and White. Total, So.
Against ratification: Messrs. Mat
tingly, Poverty, Posey, Benson, Bra
gier, Bryant, Given, Mcintosh, Dean,
Reich, Davis, Fisher, of Prince
Georges; Atkinson, Coburn, Mitchell,
Antonio, Burns, Distler, Mellen,
Prinz, Green, Hagen, Houghey Hor
meister, Wire, Connolly, Hildebrant,
McClung, Norris. EicheIberger, Al
len, Cornthwaite, Warrington, Noel,
Shearer and HUMPHREYS. Total, SIS.
Absent or not voting: Messrs. r.
j. Dawson, Dickinson, Lee, Curry,
League and Fisher, OF Allegany.
MessTs. Solley, of Anne Arundel,
and Stinson, of Howard, who voted
yesterday for the referendum amend
ment, today voted for the resolution.
No time was lost by the dryS
when the House resolution ratifying
the national prohibition amendment
came over 10 the Senate today. Mr..
Bennett insisted upon a second read
ing. and as there was no disposition
on the part of those opposed TO the
amendment TO antagOniZe this aC-
ton, especially since the resolution
will be open to amendment on the
third reading, the Committee On
Federal Relations agreed to submit
an immediate report. AS the ma
jOrity is opposed to prohibition, this
was unfaVorable. Mr.. Bennett,
therefore, moved the substitution of
the resolution for the unfavorabla|
report. This was carried by a vote
of 10 to I, and the resolution was
made the special order for next
Wednesday at 1890 O'Clock, when
it Will come up on its third reading
Immediately after this is disposed
of the Anti-Saloon League Will be-
gin operations on the Statewide bill.
1t is understood that the measure Isl
in readiness and will probably 81
introduced in the House on Tutsus
night.
To furthel-teptrrvct the traffic, how
ever. Dr case the Statewide bill
shout not pass, Senator Metzerott,
one he radical drys, introduced a
bill Il ay which compels retailers to
confin their business to a strictly
retail oasis. That is to say, the
liquor they sell must be drunk on
the premises and the sale of any
beverage in packages or bottles is
prohibited. This would prevent a
customer from taking any half-pint
bottles or one or more bottles of
beer. The hours of business of the
wholesale dealer are fixed at from
8 to o'clock and they are not per-
mitted to sell in less quantity than
pint. Only one kind of license can
be taken out by a retailer or whole
saler. This bill went to the Tenn
perance Committee