The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-01-17
EXPECT VOTE ON
DRY BILL TO-DAY
Federal Prohibition Amendment
Before the Senate.
RATIFIED BY 20 STATES
Resolution Approved by Five States
on Tuesday-Drys Predict
Victory in Wis
consin


stitution shortly after ten o'clock
Wednesday morning In the house on
Tuesday the assembly, by q vote of ~
to So, declared in favor of a joint hear
ing on the subject. The vets attempt
ed to have the measure delayed for
later consideration. In this they
failed and the drys hail the assembly
vote as premonition of the victory
they see ahead. In order to put fire
back of the legislature big ratifica-
ton meeting was held in Madison
Tuesday evening, addressed by w. j.
Bryan, Gov. Charles S. Whitman, New
York, and Senator Wesley L. Jones of
Washington. A bushel basket full of
petitions asking for the immediate
consideration of the amendment were
received in both houses OF the legisla-
ture today. Assemblyman J. w. Con-
nor asked that all prohibition petitions
be sent to the assembly committee on
state affairs.
One bill was offered In the assembly.
It was presented by Assembly Perry,
WinnebagO county, and asked for the
extension of the city manager plan for
municipalities to cities of the second,
third and fourth classes.
A report was received from Cover
nor Phillip saying that during the BIZ
ennium $3,16960 had been spent out of
the contingent fund and that the
amount in hand on January 1 was 49,
994.77.
The senate by unanimous vote has
adopted the Wilcox resolution for the
league of nations plan. All substitutes
were rejected. This resolution will
now come up in the assembly the lat
ter part of the week. 1t is an indorse-
ment of the idea suggested by Presi-
dent Wilson,
Ratification of the prohibition con-
StitutiOnal amendment by six states
Tuesday brought the number which.
have ratified it to 20. The states
which took this action Tuesday were
Illinois, Indiana, Arkansas, California
Kansas and y. Carolina. Ratification by
seven more states is required to make
the whole country bone dry year
from the date that the thirty-SiXth
state ratifieS, unless the distillers are
successful in proving in court that the
laws of 10 of these states require a
vote of the people for ratification.
Six states in one day is the high rec
ord since the process of ratification be-
gun.
The prohibition drive started in the
Madison churches on Sunday, and
reached a climax Tuesday night at a
the university gymnasium, with for
mer Gov. Charles S. Whitman of New
York, who is being grOOmed as the
dry candidate for The Republican nom
inatiOn for president; United States
Senator Wesley L. Jones, member of
the senate committee investigating the
political activities of the brewers, and
William Jennings Bryan as the princi-
pal speakers.
Senator Jones and Mr.. Bryan adj
dressed q ratification rally in the af-
ternOon and joined Governor Whitman
as the big gunners at Tuesday nights
massmeeting. Delegations boosting
the, national amendment were here
from Milwaukee and other cities of
the state. They came from as far as
Superior and cities in the Fox river
valley were strongly represented. Part
of the program is to food the legisla-
ture with petitions when the houses
convened.
Members of the legislature were in
,,sSo<l 20 oil Tho xrohihi@;Dx> Iloxx,o,1xc
including a six o'clock dinner given by
John Strange in honor of Governor
Whitman, Senator Jones and Mr.. Bry-
an. Many of them attended.
The drys think they have produced
a ten-strike by bringing Governor
Whitman here, because as governor of
New York he vetoed bin which SUBJ
mitted to vote of the people the
question of whether the legislature
should ratify the prohibition amend
: ment. 1t is said the vets will spring
the same proposition here. Governor
Whitman held it was unconstitutional.
The drys are working openly and
with great enthusiasm. They claim
So votes in the house and substan-
tial majority in the senate. The vets
are working quietly and with hope of
victory in the assembly. They have
not given up all hope of victory in the
senate.
1t is probable that the vets will pull
every parliamentary string to prevent
a vote on the Skogmo resolution fol-
lowing public hearing Wednesday af-
ternoOn.
Skogmo is something of a sharp
shooter himself when it comes to the
fine points of legislative procedure and
is primed for hand to hand fight.
Senator Pullen has introduced a bill
authorizing counties, towns, cities and
villages to appropriate money for
monuments to the deeds and memory
of the soldiers and sailors who fought
in the war against Germany.
A bill will be introduced legalizing