Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-29

Washington, Oct. 2S.-The senate passed the prohibition enforcement act over the presidents veto today and made immediately effective ma chinery for preventing sale of bev- erages containing more than one-haIf of one per cent. alcohol
 The vote was 65 to 20. or eight moro than the necessary two-thirds major lty. While there was a wrangle over taking up the measure in place of the peace treaty. which had the right of way, there never was doubt as to how the senate stood. It was overwhelm- passed the bill within three hours af- ter the president had vetoed 1t.
 Before congress, at $40 o'clock. fi- nally clinched enactment of the en- torcement law, despite presidential ob- Jection to linking war time and con stitutional prohibition acts, there came from the White House the announce ment that the wartime laws-which was put into effect after the cessation of hostilities-would be annulled the moment the senate formally ratified the German peace treaty.
 It was the most definite of all offi- cial or semi official statements bear ing on the wartime act. Prohibition news, for they had counted firmly up- on the country reaching the effective date of constitutional prohibition January 16, 1920-without reopening of saloons.
 Despite the c1amor set up by wet and dry forces over the White House pronouncement, senate leaders said they would proceed with consideration of the treaty as heretofore. Senators who have taken an active part in the prohibition campaign branded as un- fair and absurd reports that they would delay the treaty simply to keep the liquor traffic from getting a foot hold in the comparatively short period remaining before the country will go dry for good.
 Formal denial was issued from headquarters Of the Anti Saloon league that it's officers would take part in any movement calculated to delay the treaty. League officers stuck to the opinion that it would be necessary to first ratify the Austrian treaty before lifting the Austrian treaty before lift ing the war time prohibition ban, which was said to have been the rul- they declared their position was not altered by the fact that President Wilson was prepared to cut through legal doubt and wipe out a 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 necessar- fly 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 a man. for instance, may be fined or put, in jail for displaying a picture of a brewery or a keg. but his right to store liquor in his own home for his own use stood up against all attacks in committee and both houses of con greSS.
 Warning went tonight to dealers selling two and three quarters per cent. beer, without apparent risk heretofore, that the new law fixed one half of one per cent. as the legal limit of alcoholic contest.
 The senate roll call on the measure follows:
 For Overriding the Veto.
 Republicans: Ball, Capper. Colt, Cummins. Curtis Fernald, F'reling son Of California; Joneg' of Washing ton: Kellogg. Kenyon. Reyes. Knox, Lenroot Lodge. Mccormick, McCum Der. McNary. Moses. Nelson, New, dexter, Sherman. Smoot, Spencer, Wadworth. Warren and watson-3S
 Democrats: Ashurst. Bankhead, Chamberlain. Dial. Fletcher. Gore, Harris, Harrison. Henderson. Jones o1 Myers, Nugent. Overman Owen, Pomerene. Sheppard. Simmons, Smith Of Arizona: smith of Georgia; Swanson. Trammell, Walsh or Mon tana: Williams and Wolcott-27. To tai for, 65.
 Against Overriding Veto.
 Republicans: Borah. Brandegee, Calder Edge, Fall. France. Lafollette, Mclean and Penrose-9. Democrats: Gay. Gerry. Hitchcock, King, Phelan, Ransdell, Robinson Thomas. Underwood and Walsh of Massachusetts,. Total against 20.