Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-17

be the thirty-siXth.
 "States Require Referendum Meanwhile distillers' committee, through Levy Mayer, chief of their counsel, announced that in tWenty-two states the constitutions requre refer- ondum vote of citizens in order to rati- fy constitutional amendment. MT. Mayer today named, these states as follows:
 South Dakota, Oregon, Nevada, Mon- tana, Oklahoma, Maine, Maryland. Michigan, Arkansas, Colorado, Arizo- ma. New MeNico Califirnia, Ohio. Ne braska, Washington, North Dakota, Mississippi Missouri. Kansas, Louis jana and Utah.
 In California court action has al- ready been taken to restrain the gov ernor from certifying the action of the legislature to Washington. Every re- source of the distilleries with re- sources of approximately $1,000, ,0O0,-. GOO, will be employed in the supreme effort to save their businesses, it is said. An important meeting of the distillers' committee will be held in New York on January 2S. when it is planned to adopt detailed program.
  lers' attack was freseen and that it The text of the Congressional reso-z lution follows:
 Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article, the manu- facture. sales or transportation if in- toxicating liquors within, the impor- tation thereof into, or the exportatlOn | ', lad fatn territories subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes IS here- by prohibited
 Sec 2.-The congress and the sev- eral states shall have concurrent pow CT to enforce this article by approprl- ate legislation.
 Sec 3.-This article shall be in- operative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the con stitution by the state legislature of the several states. as provided in the con- stitution, within seven years of the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress"
 Fiurteen of the thirty-six states which have approved the resolution have certified their action to the state department. Senator Sheppard, or Texas, author of the resolution, said today that the country would go\ dry. one year frim today. Other held that the amendment would not be effective until one year from formal certiflca- tion by the thirty-sixth state. Prohibition leaders regard the ef- fnctivc date as matter of s"nell mo- ment, however, as country wide pro- ''''''c~ is ordered July l. bv the war measure passed by congress to con- serve grains That measure remains in force until after demohilizaticn of the military forces is completed. which many think will not be before the con- stjtutional amendment is operative.
 Enormous revenues by the federal government from taxes on mannfac- ture and sale of alcohol drinks will be cut off hv prohibition. It is planned to raise s45O 100000 this year by bev- craze taxes Tn peace times. the amount was less. but still ran into the hundreds of millions.
 Senator Sheppard said today he soon would introduce a bill to make the amendment effective after consulta- tion with senate and house leaders and prohibition organizations. { He said he was not disturbed over reports that linuor interests intended to test the validity of the amendments adoption. and declared no loop-holes to invalidate the law would be found.