Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-29
DRY ENFORCEMENT
MEASURE PASSED
BY SENATE OVER
VETO BY WILSON
y ner House of Congress Over
,o,o = s Presidents Rejection
~ o., : More Than Neces-
Sa y"Tss,4s. 1irdS Vote,
PAL MER = READY TO
DEAL WITH Vl0LAT0RS
Beverages Containing More
Than 0ne-haIf Of One Per
Cent Alcohol Now Barred;
Law Effective at Once.
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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-half
of one per cent alcohol
The vote was SIS to 90 or eight
more than the necessary two-thirds
majority While there was 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 1t was
overwhelmingly dry like the house,
which repassed the bill within three
hours after the president had
vetoed ii.
Before congress, at $3.50 o'clock,
finally clinched enactment of the
enforcement law, despite presidential
objection to linking war time and
constitutional prohibition acts. there
came from the White House the an
nouncement that the wartime law
which was put into effect after the
cessation of hostilities, would be am
nulied the moment the senate form
ally ratified the German peace treaty.
Pro Leaders Disturbed.
1t was the most definite of all Of
ficial or semi official statements
bearing on the wartime act. Prohi-
bition leaders were plainly disturbed
by the news, for they had counted
firmly upon the country reaching the
effective date of constitutional prohi-
hition-January 16. 1920--without
re-opening Of saloons.
Despite the clamor set up by wet
and dry forces over the White House
pronouncement, senate leaders said
they would proceed with the con-
slderation Of the treaty as heretofore.
Senators who have taken an active
part in the prohibition campaign
branded as unfair and absurd reports
that they would delay the treaty sim
ply to keep the liquor traffic from
getting a foothold in the compara-
lively short period remaining before
the country will go dry for good.
Formal denial was issued from the
headquarters of the anti-saloon
league that its officers would take
part in any movement calculated to
delay the treaty. League officers
stuck to the opinion that it would be
necessary first to ratify the Austrian
treaty 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 altered by the
fact that President Wilson was pre-
pared to cut through legal doubt and
wipe out law the necessity of
which he believes to have passed.
To Punish Law Breakers.
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 neces-
sarily. so, 1t 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
picture Of a brewery or keg, but has
right to store liquor in his own home
for his own use stood up against all
attacks in committee and both houses
of congress.
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 content