PROHIBITION MOVEMENT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 306, 24 December 1914, Page 7

PROHIBITION MOVEMENT.

DISCUSSION IN U.S.A. HOUSE.

Per Press Association.

Washington, December 23

The House of Representatives discussed national prohibition, Representative Mann proposing that the Prohibition Amendment Constitution be submitted to State Conventions specially called for the purpose. Representative Vollemer stigmatised the prohibition movement as a wave of hysteria, likely to destroy four billion dollars’ worth of property. Prohibitionists should denounce George Washington as a brewer, Thomas Jefferson, as a distiller, and Abraham Lincoln, as a bar-keeper, and Jesus himself, who turned water into wine, and not into grape-juice, which was not likely x) have, satisfied those wedding guests who were accustomed to something with a “stick” in it. Grape-juice never added anything to a wedding or a wake. ,

Mr Mann’s proposal was defeated by 193 to 137. Representative Hobson’s resolution, ■avouring national prohibition, finally 'ailed, the vote being 197 for and 189 against. Although there was an apparent majority, ar two-thirds vote of he House was necessary for the adopion of the resolutions.