Evening star., 1932-12-04
Repeal Fight Looms.

Repeal Fight Looms.
At the same time Speaker Garner is
intent upon throwing into the House
Tor action on the opening day of the
session a resolution for the outright
and fortnight repeal of the eighteenth
amendment.
The vets and drys, the Republicans
and the Democrats, it appears, are To
come to grips over this intensely in
teresting question of prohibition repeal
without the slightest delay. If the
Speaker has his way. He plans to rec
ognize either Representative Summers.
chairman OF the Judiciary COMMITTEES.
or Representative Rainey of Illinois.
the Democratic leader of the House. to
move suspension Of the House rules so
adopted.
No amendment to the resolution will
be permitted. under the rules of the
House. The vets must take 1t or leave
1t as 1t Is, although the Republican wets
would like to write in amendments bar.
ring the old saloon and protecting dry
States from tmportations of liquor.
The Republican vets are in q posi-
tion, II they wish, to veto vote on
Sne repeal resolution, unless all the
democrats vote with Garner. Under
tne rules OF the House, second may
be demanded when the motion to sus-
pend the rules is made. If 1t be not
granted by unanimous consent. then a
teller" vote may be taken, and If a
majority of the House does not second.
the motion fails. A teller vote is not q
matter OF record, and the House records
would not show how the members voted.
G. o. p. Vets to Meet.
A meeting of the Republican vets to
determine their course with regard to
the repeal resolution has been set, Rep
resentat1ve Beck of Pennsylvania, their
leader, said yesterday, for $50 am. to-
morrow.
Wet Democrats and wet Republicans
alike in the Senate insisted yesterday
tnat no resolution could pass the Upper
House IN the present Congress that
provided unconditional repeal of the
eighteenth amendment. That being the
case. the wet Republicans in the House
might agree to let the Garner repeal
resolution go through tomorrow, know
ing that it would be amended in the
Senate. The argument is advanced that
this course might really expedite action
en- repeal resolution
If the repeal resolution, sponsored by
Speaker Garner, fails in the House to-
morrow, the Senate still will have an
opportunity to originate a repeal reso-
luton of It's own, barring the saloon
and protecting the dry States, and
send it to the House for action. The
eighteenth amendment itself first was
adopted by the Senate and sent to the
House for action in 1917.
The Democrats IN the recent CAM
palgn promised farm relief legislation.
repeal of the eighteenth amendment
and immediate legalization of beer
within the confines of the Constitution.
Hoover Vetoes Seen.
The belief exists that President
Hoover would not approve the kind of
farm relief legislation which the Demo-
Gratis seem bent on writing. nor would
he approve a beer bill. That in the
present Congress it would be possible
to override presidential vetoes on these
subjects is not credited in we'll informed
circles
Under these circumstances, a special
session of the next Congr@ =1s-. esser
Gov. Roosevelt. the President-elect,
takes Office seems inevitable, although
the Democrats, including Gov. Roose-
Velt and the leaders of House and SEN
ate, would much prefer to avoid such
session.
Indeed, unless special session should
be called, the new Congress chosen
last month might not assemble until
January 3. 1884. For the lame duck
amendment to the Constitution, sfseady
ratified by II of the States. may have/
become a part of the Constitution. early
next year. And it is provided tnat on
October IS following ratification the
sections relating to the meetings OF
Congress shall become operative.
1t is unthinkable that such a long
period of time will be permitted to pass
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