The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-10-29
PRESIDENT TO ANNUL
WAR TIME PROHIBITION
when TREATY is SIGNED
Dry Lealedrs PlRinly Disturbed Over
White H6aase Announce
ment of Presidents
Decision.
WILL NOT DELAY TREATY
Anti-Saloonists Say It Is Absured to
Suspect Effort to Defer Ratifi-
cation in Order to Save
Prohibition

Washington, Oct. 28-The Senate
passed the prohibition enforcement act
over the Presidents veto today and
made Immediately effective machinery
for preventing sale of beverages con-
tanning more than one-half of 1 per
cent alcohol.
The vote was 65 to 60, or eight
more than the necessary two-thirds
majority.
While there was wrangle over
taking up the measure in place of the
peace treaty, which had the right of
way, there never was doubt as to how
the Senate stood. 1t was overwhelm-
ingly "dry,"' like the House, which
repassed the bill within three hours
after the President had vetoed it.
Before Congress at $40 o'clock
finally clinched enactment of the en-
forcement law, despite Presidential
objection to linking wartime and con-
stitutional prohibition acts, there
came fro mthe White House the an
nouncement that the wartime law
which was put into effect after the
cessation of hostilities-would be an
nulled the. moment the Senate formal
ly ratified the German peace treaty.
Leaders Disturbed.
1t was the most definite of all Off
cial or semi official statements bear
ing on the wartime act. Prohibition
leaders were plainly disturbed by the
news, for they had counted firmly
upon the country reaching the effec-
tive date Of constitutional proribi-
tion-January 16, 1920-without re-
opening the saloons.
Despite the clamor set up bv wet
and dry forces over the White House
pronouncement, Senate leaders said
they would proceed with considcra-
ton OF the treaty as heretofore. Sen
ators who have, taken an active part
IN the prohibition campaign branded
as unfair and absurd reports that thew
would delay the treaty simply to keep
the liquor traffic from getting foot
hold in the comparatively short period
remaining before the country will 90
dry for good.
Formal denial was issued from
headquarters Of the Anti-Saloon
League that its officers would take anv
part IN any movement calculated to
delay the treaty. League officers stuck
to the opinion that it would be neces
sary to first ratify the Austrian
treaty before lifting the wartime pro-
hibltion ban, which was said to have
been the ruling Of Attorney General
Palmer, and they declared their posi-
tion was not altered by the fact that
President Wilson was prepared to cut
through legal doubt and wipe out 81
law the necessity for which he believes
to have passed.
Department Ready.
With today's action by the Senate
the Department Of Justice is ready to
deal with any offenders against the
drastic provisions of the new act. At
best heretofore, prosecutions were
more or less haphazard, and neces.
sarlly so, it was said, because of the
loosely drawn language of the act but
the new law gives ample means of
breaking up the traffic.
So drastic is the enforcement act
that a man for instance. may be fined
or put in Jail for displaying a picture
OF brewery, or keg, but his right
to store liquor in his own home for
his own use stood up against all at
tack in the committee and both
Houses of Congress.
Warning went out tonight of deal
ers selling 2 Sd per cent beer, with
out apparent risk heretofore that the
new law fixed 1 1-2 per cent as the
legal limit of alcoholic content.
The roll call follows:
For overriding the veto: Republi-
cans--Ball, Capper, Colt, Cummins,
Curtis, Fernald, Frelinghuysen, Gron-
ma, Hale, Harding, Johnson, of Cali
fornia; Jones, of Washington; Kellogg
Kenyon, Keyes, Knox, Lenroot, Lodge
Mccormick, McCumber, McNary,
Moses, Nelson, Ne, Newberry, Norris
Page, Phipps, Poindexter, Sherman,
Smoot, Spencer, Sterling, Sutherland,
Townsend, Wadsworth, Warren and
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