The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-16
RATIFICATION BY
 ONE STATE NEEDED
 ID MAKE NATION COMPLETELY DRY
Thirty-five States Had Rati- fled Proposed Constitu- ti0nal Amendment Last Night-Becomes Elf fective Within One
 Year
By Associated Press

Washington, January 10. Legislatures of 35 state, one less than the required two thirds, have ratified the prohi- bition constitutional amend ment. Several state assem- plies now in session care ex- pected to take action tomorrow with a probable race between Nebraska, Missouri and Min nesota as to which will be the thirty sixth on the list.
 Ratification was completed to-
 day by five stntes-Iown, Colo
 rado. Oregon. New Hampshire and
 Utah-making n total of 1: in two
 days. Of the 35 states that have
 taken action. only IA have certi-
 fled their action to the federal
 state department. They arc Vir-
 ginia. Kentucky, North Dakota,
 South Carolina, Maryland, south
 Dakota, Texas, Montana, Dela-
 ware, Mnssach usetts. Arixona.
 Georgia, Louisiana and Michigan.
 The amendment, under it's provisions becomes effective one year from :he date of the final ratification. Addi- tional legislation by Congress is nec- essary to make it operative and ground work for this already has been laid. This legislation will prescribe penal ties for violations of the amendment and determine how and by what agen- cies the law shall be enforced.
 SAHARA JULY 1
 If ratification is completed this month. many officials here believe the country will become permanently dry" next July l. the date on which the special wartime prohibition re- gently enacted by Congress goes Into effect. This law prevents the manu- facture and sale of intoxicants for beverage purposes and remains in force until the demobilization of the nations war armies is completed. Court action to prevent the amendment istartcd Ftn California, wHsfo afs ofuef. temporarily restraining Governor Ste- phens from signing ratification of the amendment has been obtained It has been intimated that similar action may be taken in other states in which. 1t is said, state laws require that federal con- !stitutiopal amendments must be sub mitted to referendum.
 The prohibition amendment resolution passed by Congress provides that rati- fication shall be by the legislatures of the several states as provided by the contitution." CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION The resolution follows:
 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two- thirds of each house concurring therein) that the following amedment to the con- stitution be, and hereby is, proposed to the states, to become valid as part of the constitution when ratified by the legislatures of the several states as pro- yided by the constitution:
 Article, section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale. or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importa- ton thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited
 Section 9 The Congress and the sew eral states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate leg isiation.
 Section 3. This article shall be in- operative unless 1t shall have been rAti- fled as an amendment to the constita- tion by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the constitution within seven years from the date of the 1 submission hereof to the states by Con- gress.'
 The resolution was passed by the Sen ate 6 to 20. on August 1. 1917, and by the House. 2S2 to 1S. on December IT.. 1 1917. Mississippi was the first state to | ratify the amendment. its legislature l acting 1t January 8. 19lS