AMERICAN PROHIBITION.
By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. NEW. YORK. Dec. 16. The Government has notified the distillers that the last date of export permitted is tho [ 16th January, when the constitutional pro- ( hibvtion amendment va\\ bo enforced. Mil- \ lions of gallons of whisky aro being rushed ! to the seaboard, for export, and thousands ot saloons in Chicago and New York aro closing, NEW YORK, Dec. 16. The Times Washington correspondent states that the agricultural cogimittee of tho House of Representatives has tabled a resolution to repeal war-time prohibition, thus destroying the hopes of the anti-prohibition forces and liquor interests, who estimate that they will lose 1,500,000 dollars because of their inability to dispose of their huge liquor atocks before January 16, 1920, when the prohibition amendment came into force. Tho liquor interests contemplate entering a claim against the United States Government for damages. Some hope is held out that the Supremo Court may declare < the prohibition amendment properly _ ratified, thus setting aside permanent prohibition.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1704, 18 December 1919, Page 5
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