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enate Votes For Prohibition,
IS to 3.
REFERENDUM WAS DEFEATED
State is the Ninth to Endorse tbs
Federal Action-Twentys seven More
States Are Needed.

Federal Action-Twenty seven More
States Are Needed.
Dover, Del, March 19.-By the in
expectedly large vote of thirteen to
raree, the Delaware senate passed the
resolution ra;ifying the prohibition
amendment.
The action of the senate following
ne passage of the measure in the
house last week, makes Delaware the
ninth state to ratify prohibition.
Twenty-seven more are needed be.
fore the amendment is effective.
Delaware was one of the thirteen
states which the vets announced they
could hold. The other wet states
which have passed the ratification
resolution are Maryland, Kentucky
and Texas.
The vote in the senate was larger
by two votes than the drys had count
ed when adjournment came last Fpis
day. Senator Mitchell, who was doubt
full. heard from his constituents over
Sunday. Senator Robert H. Hollett,
of Clayton. who voted with the vets
~ the I"ef r"'-''~-" ~~--a witch the
drys on final passage of the amend
ment.
ore the vote on ratification was
taken the senate, by vote Of twelve
to four, defeated the referendum pro-
posed by Senator Gormley, the wet
leader. Senator Gormley was the
only speaker hal e the votes were
taken ~
On the vote for ratification the sem
ators lined ND as follows:
For rohibition-Brown, Frazier,
Hart, Hickman, Hoffecker, Hollett,
Long, Mitchell, Newton, Pool, Whar-
ton, Walker, and Barnard, president
pro TEN.
Agains- Prohibition-Gormle Jo.
seph an Murphy.
The vote which defeated the refer
endum scheme of the vets was diff
ferent from this only in the stand of
Senator Hollett. He voted for the
referendum and then switched to the
drys.
The disposal of the ratification reso-
luton came at the close Of a long
day of inactivity on the part of the
senate. The protest from Wilmington
against the governors war bin had
upset the plan to put both n . ures
through together. Efforts to line up
sufficient strength in the senate to
amend the war hill and hold up the
dry amendment until these amend
ments were obtained kept the senate
from meeting until after three o'clock.
A delegation from Wilmington. car.
rving petitions against the war bill.
looked on in growing tediousness
hwile the senate backed and filled and
conferred. -
The faction among the Republicans.
which holds allegiance to the leader
ship of Alfred l Dupont, joined with
the Democrats in planning assaults
on the governors bill to create q
council of defense and put the idle to
work
At one time during the day it was
decided to lose this bill in committee
and appoint joint special committee
to draft a new bill. Then it was pro-
posed that the best thing to do was
to suspend any action until later, and
the lineup on this worI have been
a tie with the lieutenant governor, a
Democrat, casting the decisive vote
with those opposed to the governor.
1t was then that Senator Wharton
was reminded that he had proposed
on Friday that the dry amendment go
over until Monday. He then with
drew his SUPPORT of the move to defer
action further, and the senate con-
vened four hours late and got down
to the vote on the amendment. II
-es done in twenty minutes.