The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-02
DECLINES TO
PUT QUESTION
UP TO PEOPLE
Both Vets and Drys Call
Heaviest OratOrical Guns
Into Action Tuesday
FINAL VOTE Is 81 TO IL
Galleries Crowded With Spec.
tat0rs During Debate
t Speakers Applauded

BY vote of 92 to 10 the North
Dakota house yesterday defeated a
bill to submit to vote of the people
proposal to eliminate the prohi-
bitiOn clause from the state consti-
tuition. Action was taken after
he:ted debate in which both sides
called their heaviest oratorical guns
into action.
Following the session the house
temperance committee voted to Kill
concurrent resolution which would
memorialize congress to repeal the
Volstead act. The action today is
believed to have killed all prohibition
legislation which will be suggested at
this session.
The house also passed five ,lcn-
sures, two Of them senate bills. One
of the latter was designed to speed
w appeals to the supreme court and
the other gives foreign executors Of
estates the right to lnstitut. legal
actions in North Dakota OF the same
basis as though he were IA les,ienr.
The Roll Call
Those voting in favor of submit
ting the question of prohibition re-
peal to vote of the people included
Reps Aljcts, Bubel. Ehr. Erickson Of
Mclean, Fettig, Helbling, Hildebrand,
Kapfer, Keierlebcr, Miller, Mont
gomery. Oberg, Rabe. Renner, Stretch.
Thatcher, Van Berkom and Yeater.
Those voting against the proposal
were Reps. Anderson of Divide.
Anderson Of Sargent, Bell, Boeckci.
Bohnsack, Bollinger. Brown Of
Adams, Brown Of Stutsman, Burk-
hart, Burns, Butt, Carlson, Conway,
Cox, Craig, Ellingson, Elken, Erick-
son of Kidder, Fedjc, Ferris. Flom.
Fowler. Freeman, FROZEN, Gilchrist.
Gudmestad, Halcrow. Hanson, Hauge,
lverson Of Griggs. Iverson Of McKen-
gle, Jardine, Johnson of Foster, John
son Of Mckenzie, johnson of Trail,
Johnson Of Ward, Johnston, Kamrat
Kelly, Larvick. Lavik. Lee, Levin,
Lillehaugen, Lofthus, Lynch, Lyon,
McCay, McDowall, McGauvran, Nc
Ginnis, McManus, Martin, Meidinger,
Mus, Olafson, Opdahl, Owings.
Peters, Plath, Polfuss. Guam. Rich
ardson, Roberts, Rulou, Shurr, Sig
nalness. Silverson, Sleight. Sperry,
STANDBY, Steedman, Swendscid,
Svingen. Thompson Of Burleigh,
Thompson Of Ramsey, Traynor, Tref-
fry, Trubshaw, Tweten, Twichell,
Veitch, Watt, Wedel, Westford, Will
son, Worner, Zimmerman, Speaker
Carr.
Absent and not voting were Reps.
SWEET and Tester.
The debate on the liquor G1cstiOn
came when minority of ,he temper
ance committee recommended passage
Of the bill to amend the constitution.
Halcrow Opens Debate
John Halcrow, Pembin;. county,
temperance committee chairman.
opened the fight against tho mea-
sure. BY agreement with the vets.
he said. the constitutional amendment
proposal and that to ask for repeal
OF the Volstead act would be con-
sidered together in the argument.
North Dakota has operated under
the prohibition law for 80 years, Hal
crow said, and has done we'll. He
could not see "why anyone wants to
go back to the open saloon and the
kindred vices which follow it, Re-
citing his own experiences, he said
he believes the good health enjoyed
by most North Dakotans may 5. at
tributed in part to prohibition.
Reading from prepared speech
Herman Rabe, Stark county, one of
the sponsors of the wet measure,
denied that anyone wants the return
Of the saloon and pointed out that
the bill would neither create or re.
peal any laws. That it would merely
give the people an opportunity to vote
on the question. The wealth of the
United States is flowing over the
border into Canada, he charged, in
exchange for an unlimited supply Of
second and third class booze" Pro-
hibition has not prohibited anything
except good liquor. he charged, since
home brew, wine and moonshine liq-
uor are plentiful.
Charging that it costs more to at
tempt to enforce the law than to sup
port either the army or navy, Rabe
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