Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-01-23
Dry Leaders Working on Program
of Compensation for
Liquor Dealers.
ABOUT 6O,OOO,OOO GALLONS
Government May Issue Treasury Cert.
ficates in Payment for Stock Held
IN Bonded Warehouses and Sell
for Legitimate Uses.

Washington. Jan Prohibition
leaders are working out eomprehen-
sive program for reimbursing the own
ers of Intoxicating liquor for the losses
to be sustained under constitutional
prohibition.
A proposal has been submitted to
the treasury department by some Of
the prohibitionists in congress when
provides that the government shall
purchase all the liquors now being held
under bond. amounting to about co.
100000 gallons. Treasury certificates
would be issued for the liquor and
these liquidated only as the govern
ment finds legitimate uses for this
large amount of bonded spirits.
From ten TO twenty years. prohibit
tion leaders estimate, win be required
20 use up this stock legitimately-such
as for medicinal, scientific or indus
trial purposes.
The fact that many banks. holders
of warehouse certificates for govern
ment bonded liquor, will be large los
ers unless some relief is granted, =
drawing support for the program. Pro-
hibitionists believe the plan will pro-
vide for stricter and more economl-
cal enforcement of prohibition and de-
crease much of the antagonlsm
throughout the country to the dry era.
The disposition of the liquor now in
bond has been put up 90 congress
squarely by the internal revenue bu-
ieau. Extra guards are being placed
around all bonded warehouses by the
prohibition enforcement division of the
bureau. The government must guard
ali this liquor, and under the present
system the expense lis fast mounting up
into the several millions.
The new program contemplates the
concentration of this liquor in several
large bonded warehouses. so that its
distribution for Illegal purposes can De
prevented absolutely. AT present it is
stored in $50 government and about
l75 private warehouses, thus requiring
small army TO guard 1t.
A few radical prohibtionists In con-
gress favor the immediate destruction
of all this liquor, but others point out
that small supply for medicinal pur.
poses viii be needed always
Refund by the government Of taxes
paid on liquors held In bond which
the owners have been unable TO sell or
dispose Of. redemption by the govern
ment Of unused tax stamps purchased
TO be placed on such liquors, and pur.
chase by the government Of all liquors
in bohd are provided by bill intro
duced In the house by Representative
SABBATH Of Illinois.
As It's enactment would result in "a
heavy drain on the treasury. which the
Republican leaders are now deter.
mined 10 prevent wherever possible, II
Is not believed that the legislation will
receive favorable consideration at this
session.
Wholesale arrests Of bootleggers all
over the country were predicted here
by John f. Kramer, federal prohibition
commissioners.
with thousands of detectives at
work all over the country" said Kra-
mer. I'VE plan drastic and quick meas
ures to make the law effective"
With the appointment Of the ten de
partment commissioners for prohibl-
tlon enforcement. the governments
machinery 70 be created under the
eighteenth amendment to the consti.
tuition was practically completed