| Show NATION TO BE m 0 bi AFTER NEXT mi JULY MEASURE RECEIVES FINAL SANCTION OF CONGRESS wilt will stop sale of intoxicants during dewar the war and ie ma bli ti n believed that thai courts court may ay settle disputed points washington final legislative action was taken on november 18 by the senate on the national warline time prohibition hibi tion bill ill effective july 1 L next and continuing during mobilization the senate struck out the wa shing ton rent profiteering rider which had held up the bill and adopted theaon the conference report on the remainder of the provisions which the lie house already had approved the bill would stop safes of distilled malt or vinous beverages june 30 1019 and thereafter during the war vac and demobilization manufacture of distilled spirits Is now prohibited under the food control law which will expire explore alth the world peace treaty the prohibition bill is in the i form of a if legislative rider on an emer emergency gency appropriation measure provi providing d ilij about for stimulating agricultural production effect of the legislation is the subject af pf of warm disputes which manyi duany members of congress think the courts will have to settle the bill would make prohibition effective after june 80 1010 1919 until the conclusion of the present war and ther thereafter beafter until the termination of demobilization the date of which shull shall be determined and proc proclaimed laime d by the president senator sheppard of texas author odthe of the prohibition features und and other dry cham champions I 1 eslit that prohibition will go into effect on the data fixed to continue until demobilization Is completed regardless feg ardless of when pence peace Is s proclaimed opponents of the leals lation however declare that if peace Is declared before july 1 I the bill cannot noi be operative even though wilt will he be in progress thereafter the prohibition legislation has important bearing upon the pending war revenue bill whose authors est estimate amate nn an annual revenue loss of more than one million dollars to the government from prohibition including cessation of beer and wine manufacture e ordered dered december I 1 by the food edwinia administration tra tion |
