U.S PROHIBITION
REPEAL MOTION FAILS
CLOSE CALL IN HOUSE
FEW SHORT'OF VOTES
NEEDED
SENATE TO CARRY ON
, United Press -Association—By Electric Mm
graph—Copyright. (Received 6tli December, 10 a.m.) i
. WASHINGTON, sth December.' ; The House of r Representatives 01$ Monday rejected the Garner resolution for Prohibition repeal. The vote rejecting, repeal was 272| for repeal to 144 against. A two-thirds majority was neces^ sary for approval of the resolution. The change of six votes would hava brought about adoption'of the reso« lution.
Inasmuch as Mr. Garner has said that he would not permit another; vote on repeal this session, the vote is believed to have killed the quest tion at least until the new Congress meets.
The resolution had support frornl the Republican leadership.
Senator Joseph Robinson, Democratic leader, stated on Monday in; the Senate that the Democratic programme for prompt cbnsiderationj of the Prohibition proposals not be affected by the House vote.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19321206.2.84
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 136, 6 December 1932, Page 9
Word Count
152U.S PROHIBITION Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 136, 6 December 1932, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in