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Show GONGRESS REJECTS PROllTIOfj PLANS THE HOBSON. RESOLUTION TO SUBMIT A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT DEFEATED. Party Lines Wiped Out in the Struggle in the House, the Advocates of Nation-wide Prohibition Going Down to Defeat. Washington. The Hobson resolution to submit a constitutional amendment for national prohibition to the state legislature was defeated in the house Tuesday night, 197 ' members voting for and 189 against it. An affirmative affirma-tive vote of two-thirds was required to adopt the resolution. Party lines were wiped out in the struggle. Democratic Leader Underwood Under-wood and Republican Leader Mann fought shoulder to shoulder at the head of the forces opposing the resolution. reso-lution. And when the vote came, of the 197 standing for the resolution, 114 were Democrats, 67 were Republicans Republi-cans and 11 were Progressives and 4 were independent Republicans. Prohibition leauers declared that the majority for the resolution had fulfilled their expectations as they had not hoped for a two-thirds vote at this time. Whether a similar resolution pending in the senate submitted by Senator Shepard of Texas would reach a vote in the senate at this session was not certain Tuesday night. Administration Ad-ministration leaders are inclined to believe, however, that it will not, in view of the action of the house. Notwithstanding repeated public assertions that many members of the house would try to dodge a record vote on the issue, the roll call disclosed dis-closed a heavy attendance, larger than the average throughout the session. ses-sion. On the final vote 3S6 votes were recorded. To have carried the resolution would have required 2.rS affirmative af-firmative votes. It thus failed by 61 votes. |