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Show Both Wets and Drys Arm for the Fray tlnued speakership of Representative C.IIIett (Mass.), and are making overtures over-tures to the farm bloc members. Their choice Is Representative Sydney Anderson An-derson (Mian.). The wet plans also call for wet organization or-ganization . throughout the country, with branches In every congressional district; organization of a liberal bloc to support wet candidates, whether Republican or Democratic, and an appeal ap-peal to the congressional and presidential presi-dential elections of 1924. Release of all foreign vessels seized outside the American three-mile limit with liquor aboard where there Is no evidence of communication with the shore by means of the vessels' own boats was ordered by Secretary Mellon. Both sides are still ta'.klng over the fact that California, the leading wine grape-growing state, has gone "dry" after ten years of voting down prohibition prohi-bition measures. A majority of 1.9.C21 voted in favor of making the Eighteenth Eight-eenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States and the Volstead act statute law of California. Naturally they are also discussing Ohio. The proposed constitutional amendment which would have legalized legal-ized wine and beer in Ohio was turned down by a majority of 187,854, by the complete returns. XX A SHINGTON. Definite plans " v I ave been made by wet and dry forces to put the prohibition question Into politics to repeal the Eighteenth amendment on the one hand and to pre serve It on the other. The Association Against Prohibition announced plans for preparing a legislative legis-lative program, the first step of which would be to take the teeth out of the Volstead lrw by eliminating the provision provi-sion limiting the alcoholic content of "non-Intoxkatlng drinks" to one-half of 1 per cent. They hope to raise this to 4 or 5 per cent as the first step In the return of beer and light wines. The drys ridicule this, but they are busily counting noses to see if there Is to be strength enough left In congress to smash the wet program. They propose to take advantage of Iho western revolt against the con- |