The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
DRY FIGHT TO
Be FIRST ON
SENATE Slate
Glass Resolution Left as
Unfinished Business
on Adjournment.
PASSAGE CHANCE GOOD
Swing Toward Wet Side Is
Shown in Roll Call as
Session Ends.
BY LEO r. SACK
Times STAFF Writer


WASHINGTON, July 1e.-The
fight to repeal the eighteenth
amendment will be resumed at
once when congress reconvenes in
December, and if the November
elections show that the nation is
tired of the dry law, senators be-
lieve a repeal resolution will be
passed Immediately without await
ing affirmative votes of new con-
gressmen.
The Glass repeal resolution, spon-
sored by the Virginia senator, per-
sonally and politically dry, was the
unfinished business of the senate
until almost the hour of adjourna-
ment. 1t was laid aside to enable
the senate to vote on an appropria-
ton bill to finance the new home
loan law.
The measure now is on the SEN
ate calendar, placed there by a
vote of 81 to 81, with thirty-eight
senators paired and not voting.
There also is pending the motion of
Senator George Norris (Rep., Neb.)
to refer the resolution to the judici-
airy committee.
Roll Call on Norris Resolution
There will be roll call on the
Norris resolution and if it is de-
feated the senate will proceed then
with the business of approving a
resolution which submits the queS-
ton of repeal to conventions of the
forty EIGHT states.
To pass this resolution two-thirds
of those voting will be required. If a
full attendance is present, sixty-four
votes will be necessary.
Senators think the Glass resolu-
ton has better chance of passage
than either the Wagner or Bingham
repeal resolutions, because the Glass
plan not only seeks to protect the
rights of states, but also specifically
prohibits the return of the so-called
saloon.
Here is the text of the Glass reso-
luton:
Resolved, ETC., That the following
is proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States.
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;
Saloon Is Barred
Section 1, Article 10, of the
to this Constitution
hereby is repealed. The sale of in
toxicating liquors within the United
States or any territory subject to
the jurisdiction thereof for con-
at the place of sale Com
monty known as a saloon), and the
transportation of Intoxicating liz
uors into any state, territory, dis
trict or possession of the United
States in which the manufacture,
sale or transportation of intoxicat-
ing liquors is prohibited by law are
hereby prohibited. The congress
and the several states, territories
and possessions shall have concur
rent power to enforce this article
by appropriate legislation.
Section 2. This article shall be
unless it shall have
been ratified as an amendment to
the Constitution by conventions in
the several states, as provided in
the Constitution, within seven years
from the date OF the submission
hereof to the states by the con-
gress."
Many Drys Switch
The roll call for the .considera-
ton of Glass resolution showed the
first prohibition majority in
the senate since the law was en-
acted. Among the 81 voting to take
it up were such heretofore bone
drys as Ashurst tAri3), Barley
(Ky), Cohen (Ga0, Robinson
(Ark), Glass VaO, Black (Ala.) ;,
Mcclellan TENN. Democrats, and
Jones wash, author of the and
10 law; Vandenberg (Mich) and
Watson (IndD Republicans.
Among the S8 who did not vote,
10 are said to favor the Glass plan.
This makes a total of 56 for sub
leaving only eight votes to
be influenced by the November
election.
The Glass plan is described as
the high points of both
and Democratic plat
forms. Glass insists that these who
want unqualified repeal (such as is
in the Wagner resolution
and those who want submission
with constitutional reservations