PROHIBITION
AMERfCAN DEVELOPMENTS
(Per Pr^-s Association, Copyright.) ■ ■-■:■:.■ (Rwrfcrved' Oct. 31, 11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. By a vote of 43 to 38, the Senate adjourned, other business in order to consider the Presidential veto of the Prohibition Enforcement Bill. Later, the Semite repassed the Bill by 66 votes bo 20, and it immediately became law unchanged. The speed of the passage over the Presidential veto constitutes a record in xVmeripu history. It is announced that President Wilson will annul wartime prohibition as soon as the Senate has accepted the Peace Treaty. This will give a wet period in the United States until the constitutional amendment goea into force in January.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9146, 31 October 1919, Page 5
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