Show HOEK 0 BY LAW BATHED bl STATIS WILL BE SALO ONLESS NATION WITHIN YEAR AS RESULT OF THIS ACTION I 1 thirty tight eight commonwealths ratify prohibition proposals while other states are expected acted to fall into line washington Washing toll on january 16 of tho ilia federal constitutional inalle tile alic united states ilia hist first great blent power porter to tako take legislative action to permanently stop tile the liquor traffic Ne braskas vote oto gave the necessary 6 necess ari affirmative unco three fourths majority of 0 tho ilia to make effective tho leat submitted by congress in ili decent decem ber 1017 it was is followed by sli allai lar action in tile legislatures of Alls sour and wyoming inaki fig thley elat states lit in all which have approved it dry america affirmative action by some of the ten tell legislatures yet ct to net Is arl dieted dietel by prohibition advocates under tho terms of the amendment the manufacture sale bale and importation of intoxicating liquors must cense ono year after ratification but prohibition will bo be a fact in every state lauch earlier ilia war we a S forbidding ot 1 alcoholic bove ruges after june 30 until ilia demobilization of the military forces Is contemplated under tile tho wartime measure exportation of liquor permitted but the great stocks how held heid in bonded warehouses viii liae have to bo be disposed of before ilia alio federal amendment becomer effective discussion ns as to the now ne amendment becomes bc conns a part of the con coir now that states have rati ratified fled aitor it or whether it becomes it part pait of the alio basta basla law only when each state has haa certified tined its action tp tho secretary lofstate of state led to a search bearch for precedent which showed that tile the only two amendments in the last halt century providing for in ill como come taxes und and direct L election dofsen of senators were considered effective immediately tho ilia thirty sixth state had find taken affirmative action senator Su eppard author of 0 the prohibition hibi tion amendment held that national prohibition becomes a nent filet fact january 10 1020 |