New-York Tribune, 28 October 1919, page 1: House repasses the enforcement bill after a veto

Front page of the New-York Tribune for Tuesday, 28 October 1919. The first two lines of the three-line banner report that the House repassed the prohibition-enforcement bill three hours after President Wilson vetoed it and that the Senate was expected to override him within 48 hours; the third line, on the miners’ leader Lewis, belongs to a separate story. The prohibition item is flagged again in a column headed “Prohibition Enforcement Wins by Vote of 176 to 55.”

The page prints a column headed “Text of Message Vetoing Prohibition Enforcement,” dated Washington, 27 October. In the message Wilson says he objects to the part of the bill that enforces war-time prohibition, which he calls an emergency measure whose objects the demobilization had satisfied, and he says Congress could separate it from enforcement of the constitutional amendment. The same page carries a Brooklyn longshoremen’s riot, the coal strike and the Senate vote on the Johnson amendment.

This archive shows the page as a record of how the override was reported the next morning. The bill and the vote are matters for the federal record; nothing about the act is taken from this newspaper. Headline as read from the Library of Congress OCR text of the page.