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VOL. XXXIX—NO. 126
PROHIBITION AND SUFFRAGE IN DOUBT
Bexar Votes Down All Four Amendments VQJERS REFUSE TO GRANT
COUNCIL ENDS
■ ON TERMS
FOR AUSTRIANS
Acceptance During Same
Week Germans Are Expect-
ed to Sign Is Probable.
RUSSIAN ISSUE
Italian Delegation to Pre-
pare People to Accept
Compromise on Fiume.
Paris May 21.—The Austrian treaty
will be completed Monday it was
learned from an authoritative source
tonight. The terms are expected to be
^submitted to a special plenary session
^P'of the peace conference for ratification
Tuesday and presenter! to the Austrian
delegates in St. Germain on Wednesday
or Thursday.
The Council of Four finished work
on the economic features of the Aus-
trian par t today ami Monday’s session
will be devoted to minor revisions ami
assembling the various articles. The
most difficult task encountered in
rirawing up the terms was that of ap-
portioning reparation ami pre-war
debts among Austria ami the new ret
public of Jugo-Slavia and Czecho-Slo^
vakia.
The military terms it is understood
provide for reduction of Austria’s army
to a police force of 15000 which must
be maintained on a volunteer baais. Ai!
munitions and artillery will be surren-
dered and manufacture of siege gun*
prohibited. Strategic fortifications will
be reduced. The navy will be prac-
tically wiped out.
Signatures Expected by June 13.
The period in which the Austrians
may submit countcr l pro|>osals will be
limited to a week or ten days accord-
ing to the best obtainable information.
This makes possible the signing of both
the Austrian and German treaties in |
the same week. i
The Germans are confidently expected
to turn in their final counter-proposals
by May 20 the new time limit set by
the allies this week in granting an ex-
tension of one week.
These it is believed will number
four as it was originally forecast that
six would be made ami two of these
already have been forwarded to Pre-
mier Clemenceau. Oue of these deals
with labor legislation—being the counter
reply to (’lemoncoHii’s nuswci to the
B^rigmal note on labor legislation—and
HMm* other with Gorman properties in |
allied countries. Tim remaining coun-
tor-propo^als will be presented in book i
form ami are expected to be nearly as >
voluminous ns the allied tre *y. The ।
allied reply to (imman conto ions re-'
garding the Saar Valley have been com-!
pleted and will be published Monday.
The latest unofficial information is •
that the Germans are expected to sign ।
between June 10 and 13 as present in- ;
tentions are understood to be for the;
allies to study the country-proposals
four or five days ami then give the one-j
my delegates a similar period in which I
to* decide definitely whether to accept
or reject the treaty.
May Recognise Kolchak.
The Russian situation Ims again be-
come a prominent issue this week. F<d-
lowing receipt of information that the
American government had forwarded
an "interesting proposal" to Admiral
Kolchak dictator ot the < )m> k govern-
^^nl. it was karned that R<>lan<l Mor- |
. American ambassador to Japan had|
’left Tokio for Russia t<« confer with
Kolchak. Tiie French an* said to favor
unqualified recognition of Kolchak but I
it is understood the Americans will of- 1
fer recognition only in I Im territories!
he controls ami even then solely on ns-1
Hurance that he will immediately set up j
a deinot ratio government and call a
constituent assembly. The Council of
Four today conferred with Viscount '
Chindn of Japan on the Russian situa-1
tion.
The first step toward preparing the
Italian people to accept a compromise
on Italy’s territorial claims was seen
in replacement of Signor Sahindra and
Signor Salvago-Rnggi. of the peace del
egation this week by Signor Crespi
nml Signor hnpvriali. The hitter who
is tin* Italian ambassador to Grent
Britain was largely instrumental in
bringing about a return of the Italian
delegates to Paris by acting as an in-1
termed! ary.
I Itah to Accept Compromise.
The Italian nml Jugo-Slav delega-
tions it is reliably stated have reached I
an agreement whereby Fiume will be
internationalized under tin* Italian flag.
Jn return Jugo-Slavin will receive ad-
ditional concessions in Dalmatia and
Italy will get several Adriatic islands.
There remains now for Orlando appar-
ently the difficult and delicate tusk of
preparing Italian public opinion to re-
cede from tile attitude that Finnic must
lie wholly Italian. Crespi and Im-
periali both of whom are understood
to have the confidence of the people
probably will be valuable in bringing
this about.
Reports rereived here of the fighting
between the Poles ami Ukrainians in
JtiQnte the situation has passed entirely
•mod the control of Premiei Pndei*
Ikki. Despite bis promises t<» tlm
ice conference to effect a cexsation of
hostilities. Polish forces have crossed
VK' Dneister and are still advancing. 1 !
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
DRYS SPURRED ON BY
WILSON’S SUGGESTION
RALLY FOR OFFENSIVE
Department of Justice to
Test Decision Allowing
Manufacture of Beer.
Washington D. C. May 21.—Dry of-
fensives both in and out of Congress
are scheduled for next week in the na-
tion’s big prohibition battle. Dry lead-
ers here aroused by President Wilson's
recommendations for a modification of
war-time prohibition to lift the ban on
light wines ami beer are planning to
prove that the sentiment of Congress
and the country is overwhelmingly op-*
posed.
IS UP
' । The outstanding development tonight
was word from the Department of Jus-
tice that the first arrest under the war-
time prohibition act would be made in
a few (lays to test out the decision of
New York federal courts in granting the
Jacob Hoffman Brewing Company an
injunction tempornrily restraining the
government from prohibiting the mak-
ing 2.75 per cent alcohol beer.
In Congress ('hairman Volstead of
the House Judiciary Committee one of
the dry leaders is planning to call his
committee together to start work on a
law to enforce both war-time and con-
stitutional prohibition while Senate
drys are expected to get behind the
Jones and Sheppard measures intro-
duced yesterday.
Meanwhile Anti-Saloon League head*
•quarters are completing plans for their
. national convention lu re June 4 where
the proposition of forming an interna-
tional league to make the whole world
dry will be taken up.
William Jennings Bryan will be asked
to head this organization in event that
plans for its formation go through as
expected.
Vote Ordered in Washington.
Olympia Wash. May 21. —The rati-
fication of the national prohibition;
amendment by the Washington Legisla-i
ture will be submitted to the voters of
the state according to a decision of thej
Supreme Court today.
The vote of the justices was five to
four and was in the action which was
I brought by the California Grape Grow-'
I ers* Association to compel the secretary■
of state to submit the ratification to
I the electorate.
The decision rendered today means'
’that the legisaltive ratification will not
be legal unless the voters approve. <
Rush Marks Prohi’iilion in Ohio.
< irvdand Ohio May 24.—0hi0 is dry. I
There will be an occasional oasis m the!
1913 saloons that have taken out om-
duy license renewals to serve drinks on
I Monday but for the majority of the!
drinkers old John Bar ley coni is no
more. The good byes began at daw.i and
। culminated tonight in a veritable riot uf
| song and mirth. New year’s eve in most
hities never saw anythink like the rush
it grills and hotels. Clubs kept open;
j house while saloons were fairly be-1
• sieged. Many communities according to]
• reports permitted things to run with'
। a free hand Ohio had about Gblto
j saloons and 113 breweries when the state!
!\< t<‘d dry last tall. These employed
J about 345000 persons.
ALL MEN HOME BY JULY
Only Five Regular Divisions to Remain
in France After June.
Washington D. C. May 21.—June
will see nil American troops except the
live regular army divisions in the Armv
of Occupation out Franco Chief of
Stuff March amioiiii(o»l today. Men in
the Service of Supply in France—the
last units to go—will embark during
June and July he said.
General March declared all' com- I
bat divisions hut the regulars will have
sailed for home by June 12. With the!
auny fast clearing Franco various
bases of the A. E. J-' are being closed.
BUILDING BOOM ON
Homes Going Ip by Thousands
Throughout Central West.
-
Chicago May 24.—Chicago ami the
Central West are experiencing the big-
gest building boom this section has ver
known and which builders and con-
tractors assert is only its share of the
general building wave that is covering
the whole country.
Better living conditions more money 1
due to increased wages and a disin-
clination among persons formerly pour 1
to c<mtiniie to live according to poorer
standards are the reasons set forth for
the changing order.
THE WEATHER
—
TEMPER ITUCES. 1
MA V I’3. 4 a. in f.«’. ' ।
3 p. in M 5 a. in t; I
1 p in MO i’> a. m • I
5 p. m mo 7 a. in «3 |
•> p. tn 7 0 M a. in 65
7 p. in 7 8 !i a. in 63
s p in 77 10 a. m 64
0 P- in 7 5 11 a. in f>s
I•» p. m 7 5 1 J in 70 ।
11 p in ... 71 I p. in 74
12 in I Inlulif ... 73 2 p. in 77
MAY 21. 3 p. in h 1
I a m 7 2 I |. in S 4
2 a m. < I 5 p. m M>
3 a. in 70 6 p. m X 6
• I' ni Ml (
FOKEf AST.
Foj Snu Antonio and vicinity: Generally •
fair rlalng temperature.
Pershing Reviews and Honors Texas Guardsmen
GeHERAL PERSHING ^ND GENERAL ALLEN AT THE REVIEW OF T^E
36V O/V/SION QENERAI PE RIH ING HIN TH£ LEAD WITH GENERAL ALLEN
RIGHT BEHIND HIN
The first pictures shown here of Gen-
eral Pershing and Major General Allen
nt the review of the 36th Division will
be of unusual interest to Texans since
GMNSFM
ACCEPTING BUT
UNTO PROTEST
Masses Do Not Want Block-
ade Renewed and Know
Allies Are Ready to Act.
PERSHING’S MEN READY
Neutrals Are Notified That
Pre-Armistice Regulations
May Be Restored.
Berlin May 24.—Signing the peace
• treaty "under protest’’ is the new direc-
tion in which the weather vane of pub-
lic sentiment is pointing in Germany.
This cannot be difinitcly stated as the
majority .sentiment of the country but
it is regarded as significant that at the
largest peace demonstration so far held
in Berlin—-when more than ItMt.fMKl per-
sons gathered in the Lust Garten—
Hugo Haase. Independent Socialist
made this suggestion and was loudly
cheered. He added that a world revo-
lution is destined to break out ami i ) i
«‘<ly any ills which Germany might sof-
ter from the treaty.
The government outwardly is stand-
ing firm on its determination not to ac-
cept the t'^ms without modifications.
Each day however adds to the belief
that about all the modifications needed
to bring about acceptance would be
those sufficient to save the government's
face with the people.
The government declares its final
counter pnqiosuls constitute the mini-
mum it will accept but everybody is
wondering whether the allies will agree
to any modification at all. In certain
government circles there is a professed
belief that the allies will wield some-
what.
The German proletariet does not
want the economic blockade! stamped
down again or a renewal of the ration-
ing of foods which is sufficiently dif-
ficult to secure now. But re(»orts re-
ceived here agree there would be no
ijuestion that the blockade would be ap-
plied again upon the refusal of the Ger-
man delegates to sign. Moreover the
correspondent was informed by a Brit-
ish officer that the British in the Co-
logne bridgehead have guns unlimbered
and ready for action the moment it
should become necessary. Riquuts have
been received from other sources of sim-
ilar preparations elsewhere in occupied
territory.
AMERICAN ARMY READY.
Every Part of Pershing's War Machine
Being Oiled for Action.
I.ondon rime* Service.
Sp« > Ini Cabl»* to The Sun Antonio Light
arid the PhlladrlnhLi Public l.vdgcr
Copvt luht. 1e 1 f». by The Public Ledger Co.
(oblem. May 21. — The Amvrieau
Army i« ready to march further into
(Continued on Next I‘age.)
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS SUNDAY MAY 25 1919.—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES.
the division now on its way homo was
largely made up of the Texas National
Guard.
The pictures were snapped by a San
Antonio officer on the staff of the
HITCHCOCK AND TAFT TO JOIN
IN CAMPAIGN TO AID LEAGUE;
SENTIMENT AGAINST IT GROWS
Communication to Conference Urging Further Changes
Proposed—Troops Said to Be Opposed to Alli-
ance —Delegates Reported Dissatisfied.
Washington D. C. May 21.—Senator
Hitchcock and former President Taft
will confer next week on measures to
revive public sentiment for the League
of Nations. Senator Hitchcock is the
recognized leader of league advocates in
the Senate while Mr. Taft leads them
outside that body. Their conferences
are designed to bring c«»-oprration br-
’ tween senators favoring the league and
I those working with Mr. Taft. They
will meet with Senate workers
Springfield 111. on May 29 at Kansas
City uu Muy 30 and at Omaha on May
31.
The league's friends in the Senate
said tonight that its opponents have
the country’s ears. Vigorous efforts are
to be made between now ami the time
President Wilson returns to renew the
pro-league sentiment.
Senator Borah lending Senate <»ppo-
nent said tonight that letters he and
other senators are receiving show tlm
country is strongly opposed to Article
ten on the ground that it will mean
sending American soldiers to Europe
Asin or Africn to defend the territo-
rial integrity of foreign nations.
Influence of returning soldiers also!
is being shown in letters to senators. I
Soldiers* relatives write that "the boys"
say England and France are not really
friendly to the United States and there-
ESTHONIAN AND FINN
ARMIES CLOSING IN
ON REDS’ STRONGHOLD
Reports Indicate Bolshevists
Evacuating Petrograd to
Avert Capture.
London May 24.—Reports from var-
ious sources tonight indicate the Bol-
sheviki are evacuating Petrograd to
prevent themselves being hemmed in
by the advance of the Finnish and Es-
thonian armies.
The Estbonians already have appar-
ently begun an encircling movement
southwest of Petrograd which threatens
to cut communications between that city
and .Moscow. The Bolsbeviki in an
official coinmuni<iue wirelessed from
Moscow admitted that yesterday they
were fighting along the line of Filing
Voronino Kilen. Alimiavetino and Kas-
kovo. These cities range from 33 to
46 miles from Petrograd.
Helsingfors dispatches report great
fires and explosions in and near Petro-
grad which is accepted as indicating
the Bolsheviki are blowing up their
munition xdants and magazines. Ru-
mors are also in circulation that the in-
habitants of the region around Petro-
Eighth Army Corps commanded by
Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen who went
overseas as commander of the 00th Di-
vision. and were received last week
tucked in a letter.
i fore this country should not entangle
| itself with European affairs.
■ Opposing senators have received iu-
I formation from Paris they said tonight
that the real depth of the dissatisfac-
tion of American peace makers with
I the form of the treaty has only been
j hinted at in press dispatches. This has
। given impetus to a proposal that the
i Senate communicate to the American
delegates the chief point of opposition
' here with the suggestion that further
i amendments be made before the treaty
| is submitted to the Senate.
Two methods of doing this have been
। suggested one a resolution passed by
I the Senate; another a round robin.
| Such a communication would advise
। that the treaty and league covenant be
| separated and that Article ten be either
amended or striken out of the covenant
i This action senators said would
( warn American delegates that the Sen-
ate intends to separate the treaty and
the covenant and to amend the cove-
। nant.
Senator Nelson Minnesota today
joined those advocating separate dis-
cussion of the treaty and league. He
. has heretofore been counted as stand*
' ing solidly with the administration.
• Senator Kenyon who recently indicated
' his acceptance of amendments to the
covenant has found new causes for dis-
satisfaction with the pact and will aid
those seeking to amend it he said.
grad have risen against the Bolsbe-
viki.
The British fleet in the Gulf of Fin-
land. which already has fought a brief
skirmish with the Bolsbeviki Baltic
fleet sinking one vessel and driving an-
other aground is reported to hare been
reinforced bv five submarines which
| have arrived at Reval. This is be-
lieved here to mean the fleet is pre-
paring a major attack on the Bohhc-
viki nval forces as the squadrons co-
operating with the Esthouian land
forces have consisted chiefly of light
cruisers and gunboats.
The Finns driving upon Petrograd
from the north were last reported to be
making good progress. They appear
to be close behind the Estbonians in
the race to the former Russian capi-
tal. Further to the north General May-
nard. commander of the British fon-is
(Ui the Archangel front has moved his
headquarters to Kern 4UO miles south ot
Archangel.
The Bolsbeviki claim to have stopped
Admiral Kolchak’s offensive in .South-
eastern Russia at a point north of
Samara on the Volga but reports from
Paris that Jhe allies are preparing to
recognize Kolchaks Omsk government
to some degree would seem to indicate
the Bolsbeviki claims in this resjiect
might be overly optimistic.
British airmen t>n May 10 suc-
cessfully bombed n Bolshevik! fleet on
the Caspian according to a delayed dis-
patch from the Baku correspondeut of
the Mail. Several direct bits the dis-
patch said were made on the fleet
which consisted of ten destroyers and
two submarines.
LOCIL ffITMS
REJECT HL
PROPOSITIONS
City Polls Vote of 7 to 2
Against Prohibition
Amendment.
SUFFRAGE IS STRONGER
Large Majority Against Rais-
ing Governor’s Salary
Is Recorded.
San Antonio and Bexar county voters
rejected all four of the proposed con-
stitutional amendments in the election
Saturday polling an overwhelming
vote against prohibition and roiling up
substantial majorities against woman
suffrage and the proposal to increase
the governor’s salary. The land amend-
ment a little better supported lost by
more than 400 votes.
Both the city and county virtually
snowed the prohibition amendment un-
der the city giving a seven to two
vote against the amendment and the
county also polling a majority of m(»re
than three to one in opposition to the
prohibition cause.
i The majority in the city against pro-
hibition was 491 S out of a total vote of
11574 polled on the prohibition ques-
* tion. The vote against the increase in
I the governor's salary was next in size
that project being rejected by a major-
ity of 25M oUI of 9370 votes. Woman
suffrage lost by 2326 out of a total
vote of 963 S and the land amendment
was defeated by 414 <»ut of 9340 votes
cast.
Anti Vote is 7246.
The vote in the city foHows: for pro-
hibition : 2328 against 7246; for suf-
frage 3656. against 5982; for salary in-
j crease 3.379 against 5962; for laud
* amendment 4463 against 4877.
1 Returns from scattering rural boxes
show the following vote: for prohibition
183 against 433; for suffrage 237
against 358; for salary increase 215
against 403; for land amendment 312
against 317.
Further returns from the county are
expected to increase the vote against
. all of the proposed amendments.
Only two voting boxes in the city
; favored the prohibition amendmcn’’ and
these by small majorities. Precinct 22
j gave the pros a majority of <B4 and pre-
; ejnet 45 had an eight pro majority.
( The remaining 47 city boxes were in the
; anti column by majorities ranging from
20 to more thm 200. Several city boxes
'gave the prohibition amendment less
than ten votes while recording more
than 100 for the antis while one of
them precinct 7 gave the antis 211 and
the pros only 2 votes. Precin 130 was
anti by a vote of 258 to 42. ami precinct
12 went for the antis by 262 to 23. The
latter precinct gave a majority of only
24 votes against suffrage while pic-
cinct 30 was heavily against this
amendment.
Former Prohibition Votes.
The repudiation of the prohibit ion
amendment by voters of this city and
| county was but a reiteration of the cx-
I pression at the polls that has beui made
in every election held on that question.
' The majority at this election tho ign I
the vote was small compares fav runlj j
with the majorities against prohibits a
recorded by the city and county in pre
vious elections. In the const•♦uf •iini
(•lection of 1911 the vote here u j i I
for prohibition and 11446 again.-t. Ju
1916 this county and city gave i•■ • <f i
LB4x for and 8075 against su uni--i 1 a I
of the prohibition question.
The defeat of the other amendw nts
was a surprise to .uany end K .u . - >’j-
table. it is beli ‘vo l to the antag^msm
of Bexar county votori toward Govern-
or Hobby. Many porous it i> -aid.
voted negative on all of the aji.md-[
ments because th ’y would not s ipja rt
and measure which had his approval. In
this it is believ’d u?ry be found Hie
reason for defeat particular! «f tee
suffrage amendment and specifavK.v of
the salary amendment. Hundred it
is claimed voted against the *.iiary
raise because they did not want Gavcr’i-
or Hobby to have the benefit ot <he
816JMK) a year salary during the ught-
ceu months he is v 4 to >er\ - .
Expressed Bcfnr? Election.
An expreoion -t this anrng mim
was heard a few day .- bef »r<’ Hit e’ec ’
tion when an effort wa m-ulc bv lead-1
ing p«ditician" to gain -uprort for tl.e
suffrage amendment. At a .’a ’Hing to
discuss that questi ri lead r> f 50v» . «.‘
political factions r«u i-ed 1" line up for
suffrage because tliev si id. Governor
Hobby favored t. The nn’eti’ig brope
up. a failure.
The only active campaign in behalf cf
any of the proposi i*» is w i* that in sup-
port of the woman -uifr i^ ’. Headquar-
ters have been niaima n *d iu the < Ly ly
the suffrage organization for weeks
have been speeches newspaper appeals
and much iiersonal work in the effort to
carry that amendment.
Neither the pros nor the antis made
an active campaign in the county.
The election was quiet and orderly
and marked by the absence of election
workers save for a few women stationed
at the leading polls to appeal for votes
for suffrage. The vote was much lighter
than anticipated being only about half
the qualified voting strength of the
county.
GOVErJIOR LARGER SALARY:
HOMEOWNERSHIP WINS
Incomplete Returns From All Sections ol
the State at an Early Hour Today In-
dicate Official Count May Be Neces-
sary to Settle Fate of Two Proposed
Amendments Voted on Saturday and
That Governor’s Salary Increase Has
Been Defeated.
Dallas Tex. May 25.— Returns this morning from the
constitutional amendment election held in Texas yesterday
although far from complete indicate that the amendment
to increase the governor's salary has been defeated that
the home ownership amendment has carried by a rather
slender majority and that the issue is in doubt as to both
the prohibition and suffrage amendments but particularly
as to the latter.
Returns have been compiled separately- from towns and
from counties. The town returns are chiefly made up of
rural territory and the bulk of the vote in the county com-
pilation is from the large cities.
Two hundred and thirteen towns give the following re-
sult:
Prohibition 42892; against 34137.
Suffrage 41579; against 38228.
'Governor’s salary 35136; against 43078.
Home ownership 42.225; against 36115.
The returns from eighteeen counties give:
Prohibition 21608; against 20.764: suffrage 19026;
against 19963; governor’s salary 18934; against 21560;
home ownership 21755; against 17508.
Cities Vote Against Prohibition.
Returns early in the night were chiefly from rural ter-
ritory and gave prohibition and suffrage a considerable lead
' although they did not run uniformly in any sections of the
| state. Later in the night large cities came in with majorities
against the amendment particularly Galveston San Antonio
and El Paso.
Waco gave small majorities against both prohibition and
suffrage; Beaumont went for the amendments; Brownsville
which is the home of Mrs. J. B. Wells chairman of the
anti-suffrage campaign in Texas went two to one for suf-
frage and gave a heavy majority for prohibition. Fort
Worth which is the headquarters of the anti-suffrage cam-
paign gave a small majority against suffrage but the coun-
ty gave a small majority in favor of it in returns so far re-
ceived.
In Harris county 33 boxes in and outside the city limits
gave the following:
For prohibition 4342: against 3809; for suffrage 4495;
against 3595; for salary increase. 5142; against 3033; for
home ownership 6371; against 1808.
Heavy Rains Keep Voters Home.
Travis county gave prohibition a slight majority while
woman suttrage was defeated. The land plank carried but
the proposition to increase the governor’s salary failed. Re-
turns from 41 out of 46 boxes in Travis county gave the
following results:
Prohibition 2307; against. 2073; woman suffrage 2135;
against 2405; governor's salary 2166; against 2387; land
plank 2377; against 2111. The five precincts yet to be
heaid from all small and will not change the general result.
Dallas county with one city box missing and twenty
country boxes to come has given substantial majorities to
all of the amendments especially for home ownership.
The taxpayers of Dallas county by a vote of more than
two to one authorized the issuance of $6500000 bonds to
build a complete system of permanent highways in the
county. A road maintenance tax of 15 cents on the $lOO
has a vote ol nearly two to one and has carried.
Probably due in part to heavy rain fall in the morning
the vote was light throughout the state.
THE (OIK AMENDMENTS.
Third Time Vote Taken on Statewide
Prohiibtion.
The four am> udmeuta voted upon Sat-
urday were as follows:
For statewide prohibitiou of the
liquor traffic. This is the third tiir.»
such an amendment has been voted <.pou
in Texas. In ISS7 the vote w-<; 12V.270
for and 220627 against. la 1011 it was
231006 for and 237303 against. The
state at this time is already dry under
statutory enactment. Prior to last
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
year the greater part of the state had
been voted dry under the local option
law. and at the special session of the
Legislature iu March of last year acts
were passed which made it wholly dry.
; These were the xoue law effective
March 16. 1018; the law prohibiting the
sale of liquor excent iu incorporated
cities and towns and the statewide pro-
hibition law both of wheih became ef-
fective June lU. The sales section of
the statewide law was declared by the
t'ourt of Criminal Appeals to be nncon-
stitutional. but saloons have beeu pre-
vented from operating by reason of in-
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Diehl, Charles S. & Beach, Harrison L. The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 126, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 25, 1919, newspaper, May 25, 1919; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1615131/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .