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Debates in the Senate on the Eighteenth Amendment, 1917
July–August 1917. The Senate's debate on the joint resolution (S. J. Res. 17) proposing the Eighteenth Amendment: every item headed “National Prohibition” or “Nation-wide Prohibition” in which the Senate took it up, as printed in the Congressional Record, from July 9 to the vote of August 1, 1917.
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July 9, 1917
11 paragraphs1 min - 2
July 12, 1917
16 paragraphs2 min - 3
July 23, 1917
4 paragraphs1 min - 4
July 25, 1917
22 paragraphs3 min - 5
July 26, 1917
85 paragraphs14 min - 6
July 30, 1917
278 paragraphs94 min - 7
July 31, 1917
1756 paragraphs370 min - 8
August 1, 1917
983 paragraphs236 min
Text of Congressional Record: Containing the Proceedings and Debates of the 65th Congress, 1st session, vol. 55 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917), the bound edition, read from OCR; the debates are given as reported, not always word for word.How this text was made