“DRY” AMERICA.
PROTESTANT CHURCH SUPPORTS
PROHIBITION
VIOLENT DEBATE ! VANIA
IN PENNSYL-
(Received Mar NEW
8, 10-30 p.m.) TORE' May
According to a telegram, the Philadelphia convention of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania, alter revealing marked insurgency, adopted a resolution calling ror oijedieiice and support on the Prohibition question, which, duiing the past 24 hours, threatened to disrupt the tranquility of tire proceedings. It arose when a dozen delegates presented a counter-proposal stating that Prohibition enforcement was inefficient. corrupt and unpopular, wherefore the law should be repealed. A violent debate ensued and amid the disorder and dissension, one delegate, seeking to avoid ccnrtoversy, suggested that the resolution be tabled, since the Church did net require to declare itself o:i the question, but the insurgent minority meantime gained enough. adherents to force a vote, and a measure approving Prohibition was adopted bv 162 votes to
64. tints revealing that an excess of 400 delegates failed to vote.—Reuter.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9800, 9 May 1924, Page 4
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