PROHIBITION IN UNITED STATES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 72, 18 December 1919, Page 9

PROHIBITION IN UNITED STATES

NOTIFICATION" TO DISTILLEKS. (Rec.-December 17, 7.15 p.m.) New York, December lfiTh- Government has notified tin distillers that' the last date of export, permitted will be January-Hi, when the Constitutional Prohibition Amendment will be enforced. Millions -of gallons of •whi'kyaro being--rushed to the seaboard' for export, and. tno'usands of saloons in Chicago and'New-York aio closing—United Service. (Rec.-December IS, 1.20 a.m.) New York, December 1.0. -:.The New York "Times" Washington correspondent states th-.fthe Agricultural Committee of. the House of Representatives has tabled a -resolution to repc.il war-time prohibition, thus destroying the : hopes of tho anti-prohibition forces. Jhe liquor interests estimate that they, '.-.ill lose 1,5u0,0C0 'dollars because oi their nvability to disnose of their huge liquor slocks before .Tamiary.'lG; 1020, when the •Prnhibilioj Constitutional Aniciulment will come into force, •" Tl:». luiuor interests conleinplato entering • a claim against the United States Government for damages. Home hope is held out that tho Supreme Court may declare ihe Prohibition Amendment properly ratified, thus setting" aside permanent prohihV.un. —"The Tiincs."