Milford chronicle., 1932-12-09
SIX VOTES DEFEAT
FULL REPEAL in
HOUSE, 272 TO IA
[COHfiHued from First PdgeJ


10 votes against the resolution, the
largest number from any one state.
New York with 35 led the other side.
The gathering, first since the cam
paign, was friendly, spirited and
noisy, mounting into an uproar as
prOhibitionists cheered and galleries
emptied after Garner announced
abruptly:
"Two-thirds not having voted in
the affirmative the resolution is
lost"
Republicans. whether they voted
for or against repeal, joined in
charging the Democratic majority
with unseemly haste. But it was a
Democrat, HuddlestOn, of Alabama,
who put this complaint most dra-
matically as he stood in the aisle
and said that eff given a decent OPP
portunity' he would support repeal.
But this is not decent OppOr-
tunity," he shouted. "Mr. Speaker,
we who are about to die salute you.
Good Democrats who are devoted to
the prOprieties of parliamen-
tary practice are being crucified and
are being impaled here today upon
this legislative atrOcity. AS for me,
| choose death"
ProhibitionistS applauded Hud-
dleston, but most of the days APP
plause, Joined in by galleries crowd
ed by smartly dressed women, SEEM
ed to go with the repealists.
The text of the Garner resolution
follows:
Joint resolution proposing
amendment to the Constitution to-
repeal the Eighteenth Amendment.
RESOLVED by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled (twO-thirds of each
House concurring therein), that the
following article is proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution,
which shall be valid to all intents
and purposes as part of the COnsti-
tuition when ratified by conventions
in three-fourths of the several
states.
ARTICLE
Section /. The Eighteenth Arti-
Gle of Amendment is hereby repeal
ed
Section 2. This article shall be
imperative unless it shall have
been ratified as an amendment TO
the Constitution by conventions in
three-fourths of the several states
within seven years from the date of
it's submission to the states by Con- |
gress."
Moving along in its more sedate |
way, the Senate was heading Mon |
day night to an early decision on |
the prohibition issue. But it rested |
on ceremony on Monday and after a
twenty-minute session limited to
the routine fOrmalities adjourned |
until Tuesday.
Spectacular in it's inception. swift
ness of action. and failure. the DEM
ocratic effort in the House will go
down in history as the first to
bring a Constitutional amendment
before legislative branch of the
under procedure pre-
venting any amendments and cur
failing debate to forty minutes.
It was the first test in Congress
on fat repeal of the Eighteenth
since it was voted into
the Constitution in 1917, although
he k-Linthicum submission pro-
posal was defeated last Spring by
227 to 1877.
Garner Warmly Greeted
Speaker Garner was greeted
as he vigorously walked in
10 the chamber promptly at IL o.
clock to open the House. The CALLER
les were packed with prominent
persons even the seldom used exec
tive and diplomatic sections. Sen
ators and members of the cabinet
we're on the floor to watch.
Dispensing with the opening for
as quickly as possible, the
Vice e-President-elect then discarded
I'll custom of recognizing Represen-
ative Rainey, of Illinois, party floor
eader, to offer the resolution.
Several attempts were made to
xtend debate time, but the vets ap-
larently were so confident of vic
ory they prevented it.
Coming down into the historic
veil of the House to open the brief
lebate, Rainey read the Democratic
nd Republican wet planks. He cal
ed upon his forces to support the
MEASURE declaring it conformed
with the wording of both plat =
Orms."
Attacking the procedure invoked ;
" Speaker Garner, Representative ]
nell of New York, Republican lead
T.. said: "YOu are not only break ]
1g the precedents of one hundred
nd fifty years, but you are not
howing proper respect to the office
the President by passing impor-
ant legislation before the usual s
otification of meeting and receiv-
lg any message the President de-
Tres to send us"
With the conclusion of the debate.
ne roll was called amid unusual
Hence Every member and the 700 ]
eople crowded into the galleries s
stened to check the vote of each
lember.
After the result was announced,
hen questioned by Representative l
ichener Republican, Michigan), if
g would consider a similar reso- a
ltion brought up in the regular c
amer" the Speaker sail, "The
lair will decide that when it's /
ought up" !
Immediately after the House ad- '
urned, however, Garner told news v
lpermen: I