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Said Premier Lykke, last week: "The Government will at once introduce a bill abolishing prohibition. We take it for granted that the Storting (Parliament) will adopt the measure. Enforcement of prohibition law has proved impossible and has led to contempt for and disregard of all laws as well as to extensive smuggling and incitement to drink...
Troublous Experiment. Four phases have divided the Norwegian prohibition experiment: 1914-17? prohibition instituted by decree as a measure of War-time economy and finally enacted as a law by parliament; 1917-19?growing urban resentment against the 12% limit, culminating in a national referendum (1919) which upheld prohibition 489,660 to 305,241; 1919-23?demands by Spain and Portugal that the wines of those countries be admitted to Norway, were backed up by those nations with the temporary erection of a tariff wall "prohibiting" the sale of Norwegian fish to their nationals, an act which...
...true also that the bar at the House is open for members while Parliament is sitting, although liquor is permitted to be sold only at certain hours in all the other bars in the country...
Rowdyism unprecedented gibbered in the Prussian Landtag (Parliament), last week, as Prussian Finance Minister Herr Doktor Höpker-Aschoff presented for ratification his proposal (TIME, Oct. 18) to grant the House of Hohenzollern 15,000,000 gold marks ($3,570,000) in final settlement of its claims against the State of Prussia...
Drunks in Parliament...