The sun., 1918-03-13
Passes McNab Resolution
With ProyisO for Popular
Vote in Fall.
BALLOT STANDS 1854
Amended Bill Will Come Tn
for Final Passage
Monday Night.
FIGHT WILL BE PRESSED
whitman Refuses Comment on
Question Of Leaving
Issue to Voters.
spscia, De.patch to Ta. suy.

Sptci1f Despdfch TO THH SUS.
ALBANY. March 1.-THE Hill-AIcNab
resolution TO ratify the Federal prohibi-
lion amendment was passed this after
noon by bipartisan combination OF
Republicans. Democrats and Socialists
with an amendment submitting It to a
vote Of the people next fall.
The amendment. which was introduced
~ Assemblyman Machold. Republican.
0. Jefferson, was adopted by a vote Of
$40 64. but the dry" advocates declare
tha. this does not mean that the fght is
over. They intend to clear away the
fumes OF Legislative jockeylng with
which the Assembly surrounded the
measure to-day. insisting t;,ai the doping
Is not fatal.
The amendment makes the resolution
bill. which will have to be signed by
the Governor and although he has re-
fused 10 commit himself on the referen-
DUN proposition It was hinted during
the debate that he would not stand for It.
Il do not think that the Governor will
say that the Assembly should delegate
10 the people that which Is the Legisla-
lures sole province" said Assemblyman
McNab Of Schenectady, the introducer of
the original resolution.
Does the gentleman speak for the
Governor" asked Democratic Leader
Donohue.
NO." was the reply. But I have a
high regard for his judgment"
Governor is Non-committal.
When Gov Whitman was asked to-
night about the action Of the Assembly
IN amending the ratification resolution
he said:
81 am for the ratification Of the Fed
sral prohibition amendment"
VIII you sign the bill with the refer
endum In it?' he was ark keSl-~-, - ssss--.4
81 am not In the habit Of saying what
will do on legislation before 1t reaches
me-" he replied.
Tho amended bill Is to come up for
hnal passage Monday night and it IL
expected to pass.
That the Senate alss intends to carry
out a referendum was shown this morn
Ing by the action of the Emerson Com
!nttee on Taxation and Retrenchment In
reporting favorably the Emerson Malone
bill, also providing a referendum of Fed
eral prohibition.
Another measure reported by the COM
rni.,ee calls for the amendment to the
State constitution making the State dry
after 1920. The half way war e'rer-
gency prohibition bill. which had been
backed by the Republican leaders OF the
Senate. seems to have been forgotten.
OF the eishty-four Assemblymen who
voted for the Machold amendment thiicy-
five were Republicans, forty Democrats
and nine Socialists. Karlin was the ab-
sent Socialist. OIIare Of Queens was
the absent Democrat.
OF the sixty-four Assemblymen VINO
voted against the Machold amendment
and who can be termed unalterably IA
vorable to Federal ratification only were
s!xty-one Republicans, two Democrats
and Nesbit. the farmer Republican from
Delaware. Tho two Democrats were
Belknap Of Westchester and Parsons Of
Schoharie.
Republicans who Blocked.
The thirty-five Republicans who
Joined with the Democrats and Socialists
in preventing the ratification OF the Fed
eral amendment by the Legislature at
once were:
Adler, Harris. Crowley. Dobson and
Judson Of Monroe county, Amos. Bourke.
Eilenbogen. Mitchell. Meyer and Tucker
man Of Manhattan. Browniee. Caulfield.
Fitzgerald, +. A. Wells OF Kings. Bew-
ley and F'ranchot OF Niagara, Blakeley.
Fallon, Trahan Of WeEchester, Coles and
McWhinney OF Nassau, Fearon and
Soule Of Onondaga, CATERS. Welsh. Ma
lone OF Albany. Machold Of jefferson,
Martin and Williams OF Oneida. c. l..
Meade of Orange, N. ]. Miller and Alex
Taylor Of Erie. Murphy Of Suffolk. Foor-
hees of Sullivan.
William II. Anderson, superintendent
Ant Gal I GIL
tho adoption Of the amendment de-
CARED that ratification Is not dead even
for this session and that the temperance
forces intend to smoke out the Senate
and zee what the Assembly will stand
for in the cold gray dawn OF several
mornings after"
The vets" he said. evidently real
ized that they probably could not Kill
ratification in the Senate and must win
If az all in the Assembly The night Is
not over even for this session. Direct
ratification Is no more dead than city
local option was dead when 1t received 9
setback last winter.
We shall advise every man who
voted against the adoption OF the refer
ondum to refrain from voting for thii
absurd and extra legal measure with
the referendum on IT, IT will then be
come apparent whether those responsible
for the fake referendum, which is with
out warrant In law and would have M
blndlng force, really want the measure
submitted or vote for It merely IN M
'ffort to block ratification at this ses
son.
To he Construed Later.
"To-day's record will have to be con
atrued in connection with the actua