The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
ID KILL PROHIBITION SEEN
 BY ANTI LEAGUE
Dry Law Enforcement Ma chinery Inadequate Says Prohibition Commissioner
 In Statement
By Associated Press

Washington, September 16.-Declar- ation was made today by Prohibition Commissioner Kramer that dry law en- forcement machinery is inadequate. Coupled with this was a statement by the Anti-Saloon League that the ina tion is confronted by gigantic and vicious conspiracy to discredit and ul- timately overthrow prohibition"
 Mir. Kramer in making his declara- ton in an address before the Anti-Sa- loon League conference here, added that in numerous communities prohibit tion cases were being dragged into federal courts at a rate of ten to twenty a week. The result he said, is damned dockets and delay in the trial of dry law violators.
 The Anti-Saloon League embodied its conspiracy charges in a resolution which served notice it would attempt removal of public officials derelict in prohibition enforcement At the same time, officials of the league made pub lie a partial list of candidates for Con- gress, whom it will seek to defeat be- Cause of their position on prohibition.
 SOME NOT STRAIGHT
 Commissioner Kramer frankly told the conference his agency, in addition to being confronted with a shortage of personnel, had within men who were not straight" It would have been miracle. he added, if there had not been some men who had proved to be unfaithful to the oath, inasmuch as the dry enforcement corporation had been built up in about six months
 While in conference they gave Mr. kramer's organization a vote of confi- dence and a pledge of support, speak CTS asserted this stand would not soften" condemnation of officials of whatever rank who did not observe the letter of the law in searching out liquor law violators.
 Resolutions adopted by the confer ence also called upon Congress to adopt some standard flor good behav- for" by defining misconduct" for which appointees, such as federal judges, might be removed from office The present laws make impeachment difficult and impracticable, the resolu- tion said, and Congress was urged to provide methods by which those who wink at violations of law" may be dealt with summarily.
 TO SUPPORT WATSON
 The league, in its campaign for a continued dry majority in Congress,
  against Thomas Taggart, democrat in the Indiana senatorial race, and Frank B. Willis, republican candidate for senator in Ohio. Included among the present members of the House select ed by the league as the object of it's attack, the list showed Representative Porter, Pennsylvania. chairman of the gHouse foreign affairs committee. ' Wayne B. Wheeler. general counsel for the league. in making public the list of candidates to be opposed told Sure conference that dry workers would not know definitely the names of all candidates on it's "black and white lists until all primaries have heen held. He explained the league would enter no local fight, except where rec ords of the candidates show the prohi- bition question to be an issue.
 Commissioner Kramer, in addressing the conference, suggested the org anil zation of local committees of hun dred or more" to build up sentiment fot observance of the prohl oltion law