New-York tribune., 1920-12-09
Leader of Drvs
Tells Blues Not
Go Too Far
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everywhere"
II Will require $4,000 .ooo-psrbars
more-to enforce the Nolstead act dur
ing the ensuing year, Wheeler declared
and an additional Sl,000O00 Will uave
20 De appropriated to make UP deficit
N last years enforcement budget.
More stringent regulations governing
patent medicines containing alcohol
will De demanded, he said, and If me
manufacturers OF proprietary remedies
GO not take the initiative II weed in.--
out the takers they viii all be throw \
INTO the junk heap together.'
An act Of Congress defining the du
iies of Fedetal officials in prohibitina
violations and subjecting them TO for
TEXTURE Of their Offices f they fall be.
low this standard will be one Of the
measures pushed by the reform lobby.
y. " heeler sand tne activity Of United
States District Attorneys in many
parts OF the country and the corrup.
'lon OF enforcement agents made this
necessary.
The United States District Attorney
IN Boston, Wheeler said, has failed to
enforce the law there. Out of 100
violations unearthed by the Federal
agents he threw out ninety-seven.r
SAID Wheeler. II told the Department
or Justice "hat | thought of him. and
since then he has not had things -
much his own way a. he would like.
congress will be asked to make al
appropriation to allow the prohibition
enforcement department to assign spe-
clal prosecutors to the Offices Of Dis
trlct Attorneys who are too busy to de-
vote time to these cases
Alleges Bribery of Agents
The outlawed liquor traffic has been
brlblng enforcement agents in some in
stances. You can get an idea of what
II means when they are willing to paw
$1,000 day just to have officers keep
their eyes closed to what is going on
IN single block OF certain city,
The AntiSaloon League counsel gave
unst;nted commentator to DR.. Crafts's Z
proposal to bring United States am
bassadors and c0nsuls and other Amer
lean citizens abroad under the PROV
sions OF the Nolstead act. The Jones
bin already introduced contemplate :
this.
ut would only prohibit diplomatic
OF consular repre- sentative of the
United States from giving an Official
function or attending one in his OIL
cial capacity at which liquor was
served he explained. why should 4
abroad give official sanction to a thins
his own government has outlawed As
the cause Of vice and misery? When
he is not representing the United
States an ambassador can go out and
get as drunk as he pleases, for all
care"
Concentration of all the spirituous
liquors in the United States, now SAID
to be scattered throughout 300 or 400
warehouses into not more than a
dozen was another Crafts measuve ar
proved by Wheeler He also said there
was a strong sentiment n favor Of the
government taking over the entire SUP
ply.
Suggests Sale by United States
he two ways in which this couil
be DONE" he added, would be to buv
II outright or to sell it and then re-
turn to the owners the proceeds. les :
the cost of the sale. Few persons ar
IN favor Of the government purchasing
1t, spending millions to get these fell
lows out of hole after they took tn.
chance of storing the stuff.
y ther he 81. .ernment sells If for
medicinal purposes or the owners ars
10 be allowed to continue to do so.
some way will have to be found to pre-
vent It's being diverted to beverage
uses
Wheeler warned against an attenl pt
TO improve the Volstead act by amend.
ing it. New legislation is the wiser
remedy, he said, wherever the desire j
result cannot be attained by having the
department adopt stricter reguiaC II ms
If we open the door for amend
ments.' he declared, while we may
get three or four that are good, the
other side is apt to slip in some that
will do as much HARM
To-night's mass. meeting in the Met
ropolitan Methodist Church, which ex-
Governor Folk refused to attend, was
addressed b. DR.. Crafts, Representative
VIII D. Cpshaw, of Georgia.; Mrs. Ella
Booze and the Rev James Emprngham
both Of Brooklyn
A subcommittee of the House Ways
and Means Committee this afternoon
held hearing on the Miller bill intro
duced at the instance of DR.. Crafts TO
prohibit the expectation of morphia
from the United States. 1t is charged
that certain New York and Philadelphia a
drug houses have been engaging in the
wholesale shipment of narcotics to
Japan, from where they are transported
, &c China.