Evening star., 1932-02-26
HOUSE WET BLOC
PETITION GROWS
115 Out of 145 Needed to
Force Vote on State Con-
troll Now Signed.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
More signatures were added today to
the petition filed by the House wet bloc
to force a vote on State liquor con-
troll constitutional amendment.
Yesterday there were affixed l08 of
the las signatures necessary for the
House to have a chance to decide
whether it wants to override its Ju-
dietary Committee and take up the bill.
In the first 30 minutes today, seven
more had signed. They were: Repre-
sentatives Beck CRepublican), Penn
sylvania; Gambrill (Democrat), Mary
land; Aldrich (Republican), Rhode
Island; Lea (Democrat), California
Peavey Republican,. Wisconsin; Brumm
(Republican), Pennsylvania, and Mon
tet (Defnocrat), Louisiana.
When the House met Representative
O'Connor, Democrat, of New York, an
nounced that % of the % New York
Democrats in the House had signed.
The twenty-third, he said, is Repre-
sentative Grifd1, who is Ill at Naval
Hospital
O'Connor asked unanimous consent
to send the petition to the hospital
for Griffin to sign, but Representative
Blanton, Texas Democrat and pro-
hibitionist, objected on the ground it
would establish very unwise
precedent"
Representative Linthicum of Mary
land, chairman of the Democratic anti
prohibition unit, was confident that
many more names would be secured.
If the las sign, the petition will be
acted upon after March IA. 1t will take
a majority of the House to bring the
resolution to the floor Such a majority
is not expected, but the membership
VIII have to put its names down in
black and white on the question. This
is the chief objective of the anti-prohi-
bitionists, in an effort to demonstrate
the strong increase in their ranks
which they claim since the last prohi-
bition vote was taken.
Sixty to Fifty-seven.
OF the Signers so far, so are Demo-
Gratis and SIS Republicans. They come
from % States, New York. being far in
the lead with % signers. Twelve of the
Pennsylvania delegation have signed,
and nine from Illinois. Wisconsin was
next with eight, while Ohio. MasSa-
chusetts and Michigan furnished seven
each, and New Jersey six. Connect
cut, California and Maryland were
represented by four each. Other States
represented were Minnesota, Louisiana,
Missouri, Rhode Island. Iowa, Indiana,
Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon,
Washington and West Virginia.
Official List Incomplete.
While Speaker Garner ruled sigma
lures on the petition would not be made
public until las members should sign,
members of the House interested in its
success said the following 108 Repre-
sentatives were listed at the close of
yesterdays session:
Democrats (5O - Beam. Black,
Bloom, Boland, Boyland, Drummer
Carley. Celler. Cochran of Missouri
Cole of Maryland, Condor, Connery
Corning, CrosSer, Cullen, Delaney, Dick
stein, Dieterich, Douglas of Massachu-
sets, Evans of Montana, Fernandez,
Fiesinger, Fitzpatrick, Gavagan. Gran
HelQ, dArL 6OrnOr, 1gOe, JACOBSEN,
Karch, Kelly of Illinois. Kennedy, Lam
neck, Lichtenwalner. Lindsay, Linthi-
cum. Lonergan, Mccormack, Maloney,
Martin. Mead, O'Connor, Oliver of New
York, Palmisano, Parsons, Pettengill
Prall. Reilly, Rudd, Schultz, Sirovich,
Somers Stewart, Sullivan of New York,
Suthpin, Sweeney, Tierney.
Republicans (5l)--Arnlie, Andrew of
MAsxathusetts Arenta Racharach
Bacon, Baldridge; Bohn. Boileau, Bol-
ton, Burdick. Campbell of Pennsylvania,
ysyicchia, Clancy, Connolly, Darrow,
Pe Priest, Dyer, Englebright, Estep,
Goes sGranata, Hancock of New York,
Hartley, Hess. Hollister, Holmes, Horr.
RaGing, Kahn, Knutson, La Guardia,
Lehlbach, Mcleod, Mas, Millard, Per-
son, Pittenger, Ruth Pratt. Ransley,
Schafer. Stafford. Stokes, Tilson, Tink-
ham, Watson, Welch, Whitley, With
row. Wolcott, Wolfenden, Woodruff.