PROHIBITION IN U.S.A.
PROSPECTIVE LOSSES TO LIQUOR .INTERESTS.
(UNHID PRESS ASSOCIATION.— COPTBIOHTO
(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
NEW YORK, 16th December. The Government has notified the distillers that the last date of export permittei will be 16th January, when the Constitutional Prohibition Amendment will be enforced. Millions of gallons of whisky are being rushed to the seaboard for export, and thousands of saloons in Chicago and New York are closing. The New York Times correspondent at Washington states that the Agricultural Qommitteo of the House of Representatives has tabled a resolution to repeal war-time Prohibition, thus destroying the hopes of tho anti-Prohibition forces. The liquor interests estimate that they will lose 1,500,000 dollars because of their inability to dispose of their huge liquor stocks ■ before 16th January, 1920, when the Prohibition Constitutional. Amendment will come into force. The liquor interests contemplate entering a claim against the United States Government for damages. Some hope is held out that tho Supreme Court may declare the' Prohibition Amendment not properly ratified, thus astting aside permanent Prohibition.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 146, 18 December 1919, Page 4
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173PROHIBITION IN U.S.A. Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 146, 18 December 1919, Page 4
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