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Show MUST PROVIDE NEW REVENUE Taxes Hitherto Derived From Traffic In Liquor Will Have to Be Obtained Elsewhere. New problems of government are raised by prospective stoppage of the traffic in liquor. The hundreds of millions of dollars derived from internal in-ternal revenue will have to be obtained ob-tained from other sources. Laws for enforcement of the amendment also III have to be passed by congress. Only a minimum of unemployment is expected, as the cumulative severity sever-ity of restrictive measures adopted since the war began already has caused many distillers and brewers to seek other uses for their plants. Meanwhile a distillers' committee announced that In 22 states the constitutions con-stitutions require referendum vote to ratify a constitutional amendment. They named these states as follows: South Dakota, Oregon, Nebraska, Montana, Mon-tana, Oklahoma, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Arkansas, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Ohio, Nevada, Washington, North Dakota, Mississippi, Mississip-pi, Missouri, Kansas, Louisiana and Utah. In California court action has been taken to restrain the governor from certifying the action of the legislature legisla-ture to Washington. Every resource of the distillers, with resources of approximately $1,-000,000,000, $1,-000,000,000, it is said, will be employed in the supreme effort to save their businesses. A meeting of the distillers' distil-lers' committee will be held at New York on January 28 to adopt a definit program. It is pointed out, however, that the federal constitution itself does not contemplate any state action on amendments except by the legislature, and action by the legislature, even in states with referendum laws, has heretofore here-tofore been deemed final. Senator Shephard said he was not disturbed over the projected fight of the liquor Interests and declared no loopholes to invalidate the law uld be found. |