Show Gov Coa Smith Favors S State te teL I L Poll n on Liquor Ques Question J ALBA ALBANY Y N N. Y May 19 AP APA APA AP- AP A stat wide state referendum on the prohibition question Is assured for forthe for tor forthe the fall rail election A At t the conclusion of or a a. hearing yesterday on a 0 bill calling for a referendum on the question of ot memorializing memorializing me me- congress to permit the states to mak their own deini- deini d of or an intoxicating beverage be Governor Smith indicated that he would approve the measure measure Tho bill was vas passed by the legislature which Is IS' now in adjournment The legislature Is controlled by Republicans At the hearing the governor remarked Let me tell toll you ou that I think the ratification of the eighteenth amendment by the legislature of at the state of or New York was a dishonest approval because when the majority majority major major- ity party Republican found It U could not muster enough votes it resorted to the tho caucus and thus put the tho ratification through There never has been veen any ay real expression of ot what the people of ot the state think of the whole question Canon William Sheafe Chase leader of ot the dr dry contingent charged that If the governor go approved approved ap ap- ap- ap proved pro the bU Mil bill it would be a treasonable act act |