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Show NATION 10 BE DRY AFTER NEXT JULY . WAR TIME PROHIBITION BILL RECEIVES FINAL SANCTION OF CONGRESS. Will Stop Sale of Intoxicants During the War and Demobilization; Believed That Courts May Settle Disputed Points. ' Washington. Final legislative action ac-tion was taken on November IN, by the senate on the national "war-lime" prohibition pro-hibition bill, effective .July 1 next, and continuing during mobilization. The senate si ruck out the Washington Washing-ton rent profiteering rider, which had held i i Hie bill, and adopted he conference con-ference report on the remainder of the provisions, which the bouse already had approved. The bill would hi op sales of distilled, mull or vinous beverages, .June 30. J'.IIO, and thereafter during the war and ih-iuobili.a I ion. Manufacture of j distilled spirits is now prohibited under un-der the food control law which will expire with the world peace treaty. The prohibition bill is in the form of a legislative rider on an emergency appropriation measure providing about $12,000,0110 for stimulating agricultural production. Effect of the legislation is the subject sub-ject of warm disputes which many members of congress think the courts will have to settle. The bill would make prohibition effective "after June 30, 1910, mil il the conclusion of the present war and thereafter until the termination of demobilization, the date of which shall be determined and proclaimed by the president." Senator Shejipard of Texas, author of the prohibition features, and other dry champions insist that prohibition will go into effect on the date li.xed, to continue until demobilization is completed, com-pleted, regardless of when peace is proclaimed. Opponents of the legislation, legis-lation, however, declare that if peace is declared before July 1 the bill cannot can-not be operative, even thmigh demobilization demob-ilization will be in progress thereafter. there-after. The prohibition legislation has important im-portant bearing upon the pending war revenue bill, whose authors estimate nn annual revenue loss of more than one million dollars to the government from prohibition, including cessation of beer and wine manufacture, ordered or-dered December 1 by the food administration. |