Show f I TO ARRIVE IN So J A No 16 1 1920 9 2 0 r William Jennings Bryan Looks Look On as Hi oric Document Is Signed by Acting State c Secretary L L. By PY Associated Press f t i V r WASHINGTON S S 'S 5 f tf at ff of 1 the til rt prohibition am amendment to tTe h federal constitution Hon effective ff e January ry 1 I 16 G 6 1920 1920 I was proclaimed i today in a proclamation signed at 1 it 20 a. a m. m at atI atthe atthe I the state department by Acting Secretary Polk The TIe proclamation was signed by Mr Polk at exactly I 11 1120 I 20 I o'clock in the presence of Senator Sheppard of Texas author of the amendment resolution former Secretary Bryan Representative Randall of California prohibitionist member of the house and officials of the League of America Americ 1 the Women's Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian Temperance union and other othe Mr Polk polle used several pens In affixing his signature and presen presented ed edI I them to Senator Sheppard Mr Bryan I I Representative Randall and others I PROCLAMATION TEXT The proclamation follows To Iro All to Vho Whom n These Presents Shall Come Greeting Know ye that the congress of ot the I United States at the second session Sixty fifth congress begun gun at t VashI Washington Wash Wash- ington on the third da day of December I in the year one thousand nine hUndred hundred hundred hun hUn- dred and seventeen passed a resolution tion in the words and following following following follow follow- I ing to wit Joint resolution proposing an II I amendment to the constitution of or th the United States I i Resolved by the senate and house I of representatives of of the tho I United States of American In congress as as assembled assembled I two-thirds two of ot each house louse concurring therein th that t the following amendment to the constitution be I. I and aid hereby is proposed to the states tes to become valid as a part of ot the constitution conI con constitution con con- when ratified by the legislatures legislatures legis legis- of ot the several everal states as provided provided provided pro pro- I vided by the constitution YEAR ONE-YEAR CLAU CLAUSE CLAUZE E Section 1 1 After Arter one year jear from I the ratification of ot this article the manufacture sale or transportation of I the Importation Importation Im Im- Im intoxicating liquors within thereof into or the exportation exportation exportation I tion thereof from the United States I and all territory subject to the tho Jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdiction Juris juris- diction thereof for or beverage purposes is hereby prohibited S I Section 2 2 The congress and the several states statE'S shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by ap appropriate appropriate appropriate ap- ap I legislation I I Section 3 3 This article shall shaH be beI inoperative e unless it shall have been I ratified as an amendment to the conI constitutiOn constitution con con- I by the tile legislatures legislature of ot the I i several states as provided in the i F constitution constitution within seven years vears from I I Ii i the date of ot the submission thereof to I j I I the states bv ly the congress 1 LI LIST T OF STATES S that It from And And further appear appeal official documents on file In this de department de de- I that the amendment to the constitution of ot the St States tes proposed proposed pro pro- posed as aforesaid has been ratified d dby by bv the legislatures of the states of If I Alabama Arizona California Colorado Colo Cob rado rad Delaware Flori Florida rionda a Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Kansas Ken- Ken I Louisiana Maine Maryland l ryland I Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Montana Nebraska New Hampshire North r Carolina North I Dakota Ohio hio Oklahoma Oregon South Dakota South Carolina Texas I Utah Virginia Washington Washington- West Vest Virginia Wisconsin and Wyoming And further that the states state whose legislatures have so ratified the said proposed amendment constitute three-fourths three of the whole number of ot I states In the United States AMENDMENT VALID that I I. I Now therefore be It known I Frank L L. Polk acting arting secretary of ot state of the United States by virtue and in pursuance of ot section of ot the revised statutes of ot the United Sta States Stages es do hereby certify that the amendment aforesaid has become valid to all intents and purposes as a apart apart avart part vart of the constitution of the United States S In testimony whereof I have hereunto hereunto hereunto here here- unto set my hand and caused caused- the seal of the department of state to be affixed done at the city of Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington this twenty-ninth twenty day of ot vaSh 1 January January Jan- Jan uary In the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen Signed FRANK L L. POLK I Acting Secretary tary of State I |