Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
Senate DryS
Are Hoping
OrRepaSS
PLANS TO BACK
HOUSE ACTION
But Measure | S
Being Delayed
by Wrangling
By Associated Press

Washington, Oct. 2S. - An effort
to have the Senate act on motion
TO repass the prohibition enforce
ment bill over President wilson's s
veto was made soon after the SEN
ate convened to-day. Several Demo-
Gratis objected and "A long parlia-
mentary wrangle over the rules en-
sued.
When the bill was received from
the House, Senator Sterling, Repub-
lican, South Dakota, who had charge
of the measure when it passed the
Senate asked unanimous consent for
its immediate consideration. SEN
ator Robinson Democrat, Arkansas,
objected and then Senator Sterling
moved that the Senate, which was in
open executive session for debate on
the Peace Tre5ty, proceed to legis-
lative business.
Objection to laying aside the
Treaty was made by Senator Hitch
cock, of Nebraska, the administra
ton leader, who has opposed pro-
hibition measures in the past. AL
though Senator Sterling said he was
sure the bills disposition would re-
quire but a very short time, Senator
Hitchcock urged that debate on the
Treaty continue, declaring the peo-
pie were beginning to believe the
Treaty.
Back and Forth
Senator Nelson, Republican, Min
nesota, chairman of the Senate Ju
dietary Committee, endeavored to cut
off discussion by declaring Senator
Sterling'S motion nondebatable. Re-
publican Leader Lodge and Senator
Smoot Republican, Utah, also quoted
rules declaring the prohibition bill
was privileged.
Senator Lenroot, Republican, Wis
consin, who was presiding tempor-
arily ruled that the Sterling motion
was debatable.
Urging that the Presidents veto
be sustained, Senator Underwood,
Democrat, Alabama, said wartime
prohibition was unconstitutional be-
cause it involved confiscation of pri-
vate property without adequate COM
pensation.
Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho,
remarked that as a result of Presi-
dent Wilson's statement on the coal
strike and his prohibition veto mes
sage, "he was utterly bewildered" as
TO the ending of the war.
Recess to Hear King
THE Presidents statement to the
miners declared the war is not
ended, and their contracts are in
NICSl, Sciiu MI. DOl Willie IllS
message declares the war is closed"
The prohibition debate was still in
progress when the Senate recessed
to receive King Albert.
Three hours after the President
vetoed the bill, the House had re-
passed it by vote of 176 to 55. The
total vote was barely more than a
majority of the entire membership.
The President refused to sign the
l., -
ment of wartime prohibition.
The objects of the wartime prohi-
bition, the President said in his veto,
had been satisfied, and sound pub
lie policy makes clear the reason and
necessity for it's repeal"
1t would not be difficult, the Presi-
dent held, for Congress to deal sepa-
rately with two issues.
The veto hit Congress like a crack
of lightning. The House, getting on
it's feet again, deserted its leaders,
who wanted to defer consideration
until Thursday so as to round up
all the dry members. But the drys
swept into the chamber and showed
there was an overwhelming senti-
ment among them to give the gov
ernment ample weapons for dealing
with the liquor traffic, now outlawed
throughout the land.
NOBODY nau redlly pToleSSeu "
know that the President would veto
the bill Republicans and Demo-
Gratis alike and the countless multi
tude that had sorrowfully watched
the passing of the bars-thought 1T
would become a law without his
signature.
Declared Constitutional
Attorney General Palmer, it was
said, had declared it constitutional.
With re-passage of the law by the
House, and the prospect of the same
thing happening in the Senate, hope
of the big "wet SPELL that would
run over the Christmas season van
ished into thin air.
Prohibition leaders predict that
the refusal of the House to accept
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