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Show RUM GETS JOLTS IN TWO STATES WHERE I HE HAS MOST FRIENDS ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 25. At attempt last night to have the assembly go on record as requesting congress to modify the Volstead act so as to permit the manufacture of light wines and beer "with a more liberal percentage of alcohol than is now allowed," was lost when that body by a vote of 77 to 42 supported a motion by iMajority Leader Simon L. Ladler to commit the measure introduced by Assemblyman Henry Baum, Republican, of Queens, to the excise committee. TRENTON. N. J.. Jan. 25. The assembly last nigrtt 1 unanimously passed a bill introduced by Mrs. Margaret B. Laird, a member from Essex county, repealing Governor , Edwards' 3.50 per cent beer law enacted last year to aid ! New Jersey in its fight before the United States supreme court against prohibition. Immediately afterwards the house adopted 51 to 4 a concurrent resolution for Nevv Jersev s ratification of the federal prohibition amendment. , |