Republican farmer., 1919-01-17
UNITED STATES ADOPTS PROHIBITION 38 STATES HAVE RATIFIED MEASURE
UNITED STATES FINISHES LEGISLATIVE ACTION OF
 VOTING ITSELF DRY

Louisiana and Utah.
 In California court action has all ready been taken to restrain the gov ernor from certifying the action of the legislature to Washington. Every source of the distillers, with s1,000,- 900, 900 available, will be employed in the supreme effort to save their busi- ness, it Is said. An important meet ing of the distillers' committee will be held in New York on January 2S, when it is planned to adopt detailed program.
 Dry leaders assert that the distill- CTS attack was foreseen and that it is without merit
 Thirteen states have not taken final action. Among them are New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont
 Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 16.-The Ne braska state legislature, at 1O:32 a. m., today completed ratification of the Federal prohibition amandment when the Senate voted to concur in a House amendment to a Senate joint resolution providing for ratification.
 Jefferson City. Mo-, Jan. 16.-The Missouri legislature today ratified the Federal prohibition amendment when the House concurred in the Senate resolution by a vote of 154 to 36.
 Hartford, Conn.,, Jan. 16.-The Federal prohibition amendment will probably be sent to the General As- sembly by Governor Holcomb with a special message, next week, pre- sumably Tuesday. Its supporters have claimed passage for the amendment by the House with at 1 least 75 margin. Control Of the senate has been disputed. Today, many senators predicted that con- current action will not be actively contested in view of the action in other states which apparently makes Connecticuts justification not neces- 1 sary to give effectiveness to the amendment.
 Washington, Jan. 16.---National pro hibition by constitutional amendment has been accepted by the United States just B months. lacking one
 
 gress was submitted to the states for ratification.
 i Fourteen of the 36 states which have approved the resolution have certified their action to the state department. A question as to the effective date of the amendment was raised today when the news came that Nebraska. the 36th state, had voted ratification. | by a statement of Senator Sheppard 1 of Texas, author of the resolution, that the country would go dry one 1 year from today. Other students of | the question held that ratification would not be completed until one year ] from formal certification by the 36th state
 Possibility of difference of months in the calculations of the ef- | fecttve date was foreseen. Mississippi l the first state to ratffy the amend ment has not yet certified it's action | to the state department although | the affirmative vote on the amend ment was taken more than a year ago, January 8. 1918.
 Prohibition leaders regard the ef- fective date as matter of small moment, however. inasmuch as coun- l try-wide prohibition is ordered July
 1 by the war measure passed by 1 Congress to conserve grains. That measure remains in force until after | demobilization of the military forces l is completed, which many think will not be before the constitutional amendment is operative. 1 Enormous revenues derived by the i government from taxes on manu- | fracture and sale of alcoholic drinks will be cut off by prohibition. IL is planned to raise $450,0O0,OO0 this year by beverage taxes. In peace l times the amount was less, but still ran into the hundreds of millions.