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Debates in the House of Representatives on the Eighteenth Amendment, 1917 (2d session)

1917. The House of Representatives' debate on the Senate's joint resolution (S. J. Res. 17) proposing the Eighteenth Amendment: the items headed “Vote on the Prohibition Amendment” (December 15) and “National Prohibition” (December 17, 1917, with the vote), as printed in the Congressional Record.

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    December 15, 1917

    14 paragraphs2 min
  2. 2

    December 17, 1917

    1114 paragraphs396 min

Text of Congressional Record: Containing the Proceedings and Debates of the 65th Congress, 2d session, vol. 56 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918), the bound edition, read from OCR; the debates are given as reported, not always word for word.How this text was made

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