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Show SHUT OUT FROM DRY TERRITORY House Approves by a Four-to-One Majority a Senate Measure Which Will Raise a Barrier Against Importations Impor-tations Into the Prohibition Prohi-bition States. REACTION FEARED IN SOME QUARTERS Reed Amendment, Barring Bar-ring Liquor Advertisements Advertise-ments From the Maih in States That Prohibit Such Advertising, Allowed Al-lowed to Remain in Postoffice Bill. WASHINGTON", Feb. 21. Absolute prohibition legislation took its longest long-est forward stride io the nation's history, today when the houBe, after two hours of uproarious debate, approved by a., i'our-lo-one "'majority a senate measure which would raise an iron-clad barrier against importation of liquor into prohibition t-tates. It is expected to receive tho approval of President Wilson within a week, adding irtHnedi-atcly irtHnedi-atcly to the. "bone dry" territory about one-third of continental United States. The provision is regarded as the most far-reaching that could be enacted by the federal government, and as sweep-fog sweep-fog as would be possible under ajjy method short of a. national prohibition amendment. It would cut off entirely liquor importations, amounting now to millions of dollars annually, into the large number of states which have forbidden for-bidden manufacture or sale but have permitted importation for personal use. Reaction Is Feared. Advocates of prohibition divided among themselves over the expediency of tho step, some friends of the cause declaring so drastic a law, would have a reactionary effect. In tho same way those who have opposed prohibition were not unanimous in opposition when the vote was taken. The roll call brought cheers and cries of "bone dry" from all parts of the house, however, and the result was greeted with a noisy demonstration. I The vote, as officially announced, was 321 to 72, but a recheck of the roll changed it to 319 to 72. Party lines were completely broken down and numerous representatives from prohibition prohibi-tion states were recorded in the negative. nega-tive. So large a vote seldom is recorded re-corded on any measure. A provisiou barring liquor advertisements advertise-ments from the mails in sta.tes that prohibit pro-hibit such advertising is included in the measure, which came before the house as a rider to the annual. postoffice appropriation ap-propriation bill, inserted by the senate last week ou motion of Senator Reed by a vote of 53 to 11. v Alteration Improbable. Although the appropriation bill will go to conference because the house disagreed dis-agreed to other senate amendments, there is little possibility that the prohibition pro-hibition amendment, concurred in without with-out change, will be altered. Members of congress are taking it for granted that President Wilson will approve it. Although some members had given it as their opinion that the legislative features added to the postal bill would not be effective until July 1, the effective effec-tive date of the appropriation it carries, senators and representatives who are considered authorities said tonight, and all the legislative riders, including the Heed prohibition amendment, undoubtedly undoubt-edly would become operative as soon as the president had signed the measure. "Decks Cleared." Dry advocates were jubilant tonight. Representative Webb of North Carolina, Caro-lina, father of the. resolution for a national na-tional prohibition amendment, declared the overwhelming affirmative vote had killed the state's right argument, and that the national amendment, already roported favorably, certainly would pass the house at this session. The national legislative committee of the Anti-saloon (Continued on Page Two.) 1 LIQUOR IS SHUT OUT fROM DRY TERRITORY (Continued from Page One.) league issued a statement saying today's to-day's action had "cleared the decks" for the national amendment. Many of tho wet advocates in con-Cress, con-Cress, particularly those with brewers among their constituents, also declared themselves much pleased with the outcome. out-come. The brewers are understood to have been in favor of the provision, both because it would curtail 'the so-called so-called mail order business carried on by houses dealing in spiritous liquors, and because it might prevent states now wet from ginK dry and indefinitely indefi-nitely postpone nation-wide prohibition. Distillers in Bd Hole Distillers and whisky dealers, on the other hand, were vigorously opposed to this proposal. There are at this time, Representative Sherley of Kentucky j declared during debate, more than 228,-U0U.000 228,-U0U.000 gallons of liquor in bond in the United States, and 40 per cent of such liquor heretofore had been sold in partially par-tially dry territory. Under the amendment amend-ment concurred in today all of this must be sold in absolutely wet territory, terri-tory, probably, he argued, at a great j loss. Mr. Sherley made a futile at- tempt to amend 'the proposal by extending ex-tending the time when if would go into force for one year. 'Because of the defection among prohibition pro-hibition advocates, the national board of temperance of the Methodist Episcopal Episco-pal church gave out a formal statement tonight, saying it had been "absolutely "absolute-ly unequivocally in favor of the anti-shipping anti-shipping amendment.''' Anticipates State Action. In several states the Reed amendment would anticipate action' by the state legislatures. Arkansas, Arina. Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee and "Washington "Wash-ington all have "bone dry" laws already al-ready in operation or to become effec- tive shortly. Utan has enacted a law effective August 1; the legislatures of Kansas and South Dakota have sent ' ' bone dry ' ' bills to their governors for signature. ' "Bone dry'' measures are pending with some prospect of passage m Colorado, Colo-rado, Iowa, Mississippi, South Carolina, Xorth Carolina, Oklahoma and Michigan, Michi-gan, and a "bone dry" measure for Alaska has been favorably reported in congress. Of ail the southern states liquor could be sent into only four under the new federal regulation. They are Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Kentuckv, which, with about a score of other ocal op tion states, will be affected in no way. It is pointed out that the amendment will not operate to bar shipments iV i dry territory in local option states, r ferring only to states entirely dry. |