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1 Prohibition Amendment as Sent by Congress to the State Legislature Joint Resolution 1919

handle is hein.beal/paassc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: PROHIBITION AMENDMENT AS SENT BY CON- ALASKA BONE DRY, SOBER AND NOT SORRY, GRESS TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE SAYS LANE JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 1. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two- thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following amendment to the Constitution be, and hereby is, proposed to the States, to become valid as a part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of the several States as provided by the Constitution: ARTICLE - Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdic- tion thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. Sec. 2, The Congress and the several States shall have con- current power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Sec. 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legisla- tures of the several States, as provided by the Constitution. within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress. THE LEGISLATURES OF THE FOLLOWING STATES MEET Colorado ......................................Jan. 1, 1919 Ohio ..........................................Jan. 2, 1919 Michigan ................................Jan. 2, 1919 Oklahoma . ................................Jan. 2, 1919 Maine ........................................Jan. 3, 1919 New Hampshire ................................Jan. 3, 1919 North Carolina ................................Jan. 3, 1919 Tennessee .....................................Jan. 6, 1919 Nebraska ......................................Jan. 7, 1919 Minnesota .............................. .......Jan. 7, 1919 Arkansas ......................................Jan. 8, 1919 California ....................................Jan. 8, 1919 Idaho ............... .........................Jan. 8, 1919 Illinois ........................................Jan. 8, 1919 Indiana .......................................Jan. 8, 1919 Iowa ..........................................Jan. 8, 1919 Utah .......................................... Jan. 8, 1919 Vermont ......................................Jan. 8, 1919 Washington ....................................Jan. 8, 1919 West Virginia .......................... .......Jan. 8, 1919 Oregon .................... ...................Jan. 8, 1919 Kansas .............................. ..........Jan. 9, 1919 Wyoming ......................................Jan. 9, 1919 Alabama ......................................Jan. 10, 1919 New Mexico ..................................Jan. 14, 1919 Nevada ...................................... Jan. 15, 1919 Few Legislatures in dry States met last winter after Congress referred the matter to them but they will convene early in Jan- uary, 1919. It will be a race among them to be one of the thirty-six. The New York Legislature will have to act almost immediately after organizing or the other Saes will walk off with all the glory. Reserve Supplies of Liquor All Gone, Bootlegging Decreases and Moonshine Plants Few Washington, Dec. 13.-Alaska likes being bone dry, according to the annual report of Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, made public today. An intro- ductory summary of the report was given out on Wed- nesday, but today's complete document adds several chap- ters of interesting data. Prohibition in Alaska has been productive of highly beneficial effects, says the report. The Governor doubts that even those formerly opposed to Prohibition would now be willing to return to the old regime. It is probably true that immediately before the shipment of liquor to Alaska was prohibited, large quantities of distilled and fermented liquors were imported for future illicit sales, but these caches have largely been either consumed or seized. Bootlegging continues, but is becoming steadily less and less noticeable. But the distillation of 'hootch' is not yet a lost art, and undoubtedly there are a few illicit stills and breweries scattered about in secret places.- N. Y. World, Dec. 14, 1918. SECRETARY OF WAR BAKER APPEALS TO NATION TO PROTECT BOYS Signing of the armistice in no way lessens the re- sponsibility of civil communities from protection of the soldiers from vice and the sale of liquor. Our states and cities ought never to lose the control which has been es- tablished nor stop so vital a work. The government pro- poses to leave no means unused in the suppression of evils until the demobilization is completed. The War De- partment is determined to return soldiers to their fami- lies and to civil life uncontaminated by disease. Laxity in your state after so much has been done would be a disaster to our soldiers and their families. I am tele- graphing mayors of the largest cities of your state ac- cording to above. You are requested to telegraph this message verbatim to mayors of all cities and towns there- in. The booze business is the same old unpatriotic, god- less business, the only business in the Union which threat- ens to demoralize the army before they can reach home. The Hun brewer is still on his job and the government must continue its vigilance against him. FRATERNAL ORDERS BAR SALOONISTS The disreputable character of the liquor business is seen in the fact that the leading fraternal and secret orders of the nation bar saloonkeepers from member- ship. The following orders shut them out: Masons, Odd Fellows, United Workmen, Maccabees, Tribe of Ben Hur, Fraternal Mystic Circle, Forresters, Catholic Benevolent Legion, Modern Woodmen, United American Mechanics, Scottish Clans, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Knights of Pythias, Knights of Columbus, Catholic Mutual Benefit Association, Loyal Americans, Knights and Ladies of Honor, Fraternal Union of America, Fraternal Brotherhood, National Union, Protected Home Circle, Heptasophs Improved Order, Royal League, Yeoman of America, Woodmen of the World, Brotherhood of American Yeoman, Order of the Star of Bethlehem.-Philadelphia North Ameri- can, Nov. 18. FROM BEER TO TABLE PRODUCTS The former Schender brewery, owned by the Cleveland and Sandusky Company, Ohio, was purchased last week for around $50,000 by the Kokomar Food Products Company. This company will remodel the interior and install $50,000 to $100,000 worth of machinery for the manufacture of cocoanut butter, margarine and other table products. It is expected that manufacture will be started early in the new year. The Pabst brewery of Milwaukee for two generations has got its water supply from a spring. This water is remarkably refreshing and invigorating and now that the beer making has stopped, the Pabst wagons are delivering the water to the Milwaukee homes. Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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