The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-10-29
SENATE PASSES
. PROHIBITION ACT
Also Over the Presidents
Veto. The Vote Was
65 to 20.
THOROUGHLY DRY LAW

Washington, Oct. 2S.-Tke Sen
ate passed the prohibition enforce
ment act oven the Presidents veto
today and made Immediately effect
i've machinery for preventing sale of
| beverages containing more than one
half of one per cent alcohol.
The vote was 65 to 20, Or eight
more than the necessary two-thir IS
ajority. While there was a wraJ.-
gle over taking up the measure in
place of the peace treaty, which haG
doubt as to how the Senate stood
1t was Overwhelmingly dry like
the House which re-passed the bill
within three hours after the Presi-
dent had vetoed it.
Before Congress At 3:40 o'clock,
finally cIinched enacement of the
enforcement law, despite Presiden-
tional objection to linking wartime
and constitutional prohibition acts,
there came from the White House
the announcement that the wartime
law-which was put into effect af-
ter the cessation of hostilities-
would be annulled the moment the
Senate formally ratified the German
peace treaty.
It was the most definite of all Of
fetal or semi-official statements
Fearing on the wartime act. Pro-
hibition leaders were plainly dis
turbed by the news, for they had
counted upon the country reaching
the effective date of constitutional
ohibition-January 16, 1920
without re-opening the saloons.
Despite the cIamor set up by wet
and dry forces over the White
House announcements, Seante
leaders said they would proceed
with consideration of the treaty as
heretofore. Senators who have TAX
en- an active part in the prohibition
campaign branded as unfair and alb
surd reports that they would de-
lay the treaty simply to keep the
liquor traffic from getting a foot
hold in the comparatively short Pc
riod remaining before the country
will go dry for good.
Formal denial was issued from
headquarters of the anti-Salocn
League that it's officers would take
any part in any movement calcu-
lated to delay the treaty. League
officers stuck to the opinion that it
would nbe necessary to first ratify
the Austrian tneaty before lifting
the wartime prohibition ban which
was said to have been the ruling of
Attorney General Palmer, and they
declared their position was not al
tered by the fact that President Will
son was prepared to cut through
legal doubt and wipe out law the
necessity for which he believes to
have passed.
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
necessarily 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 man, for instance, may be
fined or put in Jail for displaying
picture of brewery, or a keg, but
his right to store liquor in his own
home for his own use stood up
against all attacks in the committee
and both Houses of Congress.
Warning went out tonight of
dealers selling two and three-quan-
ters per cent beer, without apparent
risk heretofore, that then Law fixed
one-half of one per cent as the le-
gal risk heretofore, that the new
law fixed one-half of one per cent
as the legal limit of alcoholic con-
tent.