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Show Sills! if ipse Washington Circles Think Prohibition. B?r May Be P.nci October 1, ('Ch!--i;;i Tritmiift Sf-fia! R':rvtr. ) V.'ASIIINGTU.V, Aug. 2.5. Washington Washing-ton is !"' v.i'li rumor.; that the president presi-dent plans to lift v.artime prohibition, which went into ci'tct July 1, on the firft of Otol.er. The report i-, that prc.-ure by banks ,:, beon McriiiJ in the premises and that. I lie pi'-; id -lit will permit the tale ot' liquors and 1 ev-rag.-s fi.r tho three months remaining before constitutional prohibition fur business reasons chiefly. Since the operation of wartjme prohibition, pro-hibition, it is said, the revenues from lutciral revenue have fallen gream, with the result that the ways and means committee is seriously considering the necessity to' enact additional revenue raisers to make up tor tlte losses from the returns from the whisky and beer taxs. But. tho serious aspect which is in-"; 1'1'ieiicing the pre:'ident's act, paid to be ,'imiIc from hi;, known desire to plav tair'with a scmilcgali.ed industry, is the great, amount of money loaned to distillers and brokers on whisky in storage. In many sections banks find themselves seriously hampered by the inability of the whisky men to lift the loa ns. By October 1, it was estimated today to-day bv a war department official, the army will bo demobilised to "all intents and purposes. President Wilson indicated' indi-cated' in his statement issued when he left Brest, refusing lo lift tho ban at that. time, that he could not act until dcmobizilatioii had ended, and intimated most strongly that he would act then. In anticipation of such action, dealers deal-ers are now sending letters to members of congress offering to sell them wines and liquors at greatly reduced prices on October 1. These letters say that the wet stuff cannot be scut to them in Wasiiiiurton, but will be delivered to j them in Baltimore or in outlying districts dis-tricts where the bone-dry law does not operate. Lenders in the Antisaloon league, who anticipate that tho president will lift the wartime prohibition, as ho has authority au-thority to do when demob'Jization has ended, have started a campaign to in-lluence in-lluence the president to keep the lid down until the nation goes on its actual long dry spell on January IT. when national na-tional prohibition becomes effective. |