Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-30
JOHN BARLEYCORN'S
SENTENCE OF DEATH
State Department ProcIaims For
NAL Ratification Of Prohi-
bition Amendment.
is EFFECTIVE IN ONE YEAR
Experts on Law Declare Historic
Date Is Properly Janu-
ary 16. 1920.
IS EFFECTIVE IN ONE YEAR
fBy Associated Press.


WASHING TON. Jan %. = Rat.nca-
tion OF the prohibition amendment to
the Federal Constitution was pro-
claimed formally to-day by Frank L.
Polk. acting Secretary OF State.
The proclamation is dated to-day.
but legal authorities of the department;
say ratification was accomplished when
the thirty-sixth State acted favorably
on January ls, and that under the
terms Of the amendment itself prohibi-
tion becomes effective ono year from
that date.
The proclamation was signed by Mr.
Pold exactly at ll:20 a. NJ. in the pres
ence of Senator Sheppard. of Texas.
author Of the resolution; former Secre-
tary of State Bryan. Representative
Charles II. Randall. OF California, pro-
officials OF the Ant!-Saloon League of
America. the women's Christian Tenn
perance Union and other anti-saloon or
CARNATIONS.
Mr.. Polk used several pens in afix-
Ing his signature. and presented them
TO Senator Sheppard, Mr.. Bryan, Rep
resentative Randall and others.
TEXT OF PROCLAMATION
OF STATES RATIFICATION
The proclamation follows:
To all to whom these present shall
come. greetings:
Know ye, that the Congress Of the
United States. at the second session,
Sixty-fifth Congress. begun at Wash
ington on the third day OF December.
in the year One Thousand Nine Hun
dred and Seventeen. passed 4 rcsolu-
tion In the words and figures follow
ing. to-wit:
joint resolution proposing an amend-
ment to the Constitution OF the United
States.
House of Representatives OF the United
States OF America in Congress assem-
bled (two-thirds Of each house con-
curing therein). that the following
hereby is. proposed TO the States. 70
become valid as part OF the Cons,i-
tuition when ratified By the Legislatures
OF the several States. as provided by
Section 1. After one year from the
ratification of this article the manu-
fac;urc: sale or transportation Of In
to1icating liquors within, the importa :
tion thereof Into. or the exportation
thereof from the United States and all
7 territory subjsst.at the turiss.ictio
thereon. for beverage.k purposes, is
hereby prohibited.
CONCURRENT POWER ,ro
ENFORCE AMENDMENT
section .. The Congress and the
several States shall have concurren,
power TO enforce this article by ap-
propriate legislation.
Section 3. This article shall be in
operative unless IL shall! have been rati-
lieu as an amendment 20 the Constitu-
ton BY the Legislatures of the several
states. AS provided in the Constitution
within seven years from the date OF
the submission hereof 10 the States by
tho Congress.
And. further. that il appears from
otnclal documents on file in this depart
ment that the amendment 10 the Con-
siitution of the United States. proposed
as aforesaid. has been ratified by the
legislatures OF the States OF Alabama,
NT,il In I,al.
ware. Florida, Georgia. Idaho. Illinois,
Indiana. Kansas. Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maine, Maryland. Massachusetts Mich
Isan. Minnesota: Mississippi: Montana.
ina, North Dakota. ohio, Oklahoma.
oregon. South Dakota. South Carolina
Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington.
West Virginia Wisconsin and Wyo-
MINI.
And. further. that the States whose
legislatures have so ratified the said
proposed amendment. constitute three
fourths Of the whole number Of States
in the United States.
FORMAL CERTIFICtTIoN
OF HISTORIC EVENT
Nov, therefore. be it known. that l..
Frank L. Polk. acting Secretary OF
state OF the United States, by virtue
and in pursuance OF section EOS OF the
Revised Statutes OF the United States.
do hereby certify that the amendment
aforesaid has become valid to all in
tents and purposes as a part Of the
Constitution of the United States
Z ''ln testimony whereof have
hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal of the Department of State To
be affixed.
Done, at the city Of Washington.
this 2Sth day of January, in the year
or our Lord. One Thousand Nine Hun
dred and Nineteen.
FRANK T.. POLK.
Acting Secretary "t state"