Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-01-07
REAL DROUTH WILL
COME WHEN PRESENT
GENERATION IS GONE
Prohibition Commissioner Kramer
Admits His Belief u. s. Will
Never be Literally Dry.
ALWAYS SOME TO
MAKE IT AT HOME
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Washington, Jan. THE United States
will never be literally dry, Prob ibition
Commissioner Kramer declared today /,
though he believes rnhibi,iun is bore to
stay Pacti cal prohibition will corne
after the present peneI alton which Is
fsmili sr with liquor, Ia gone, he conti nued /,
though tasre probably always will be
some few indivi duals who will make in
toyican'a in their homes
Washington, Jan. THE HoIse com :
mittee on appropr iations, yesterday, IN
reporting the Legislative, Executive and
Judicial Apprppri stion bill, added 81 600
600 to the allowance for the Prohibition
| Enforcement Division during tho fscai
eer ending June 40. 1922. For the cur
| rent fiscal year = total ri $500. 900 was
appropriated The increase ulakes q
| total Of s6.50O,ooo Congress ~as ssked
| for 1880. 600.
Yielding % press ur~ brought hecause
| the same COMMITTEES declined 10 allow
| $500 600 IN another bill to The Attorney
| Geueral for hiring more attorneys, the
| House voted II 60 II for an appropriation
| of a20n.p00 for this purpose The amend
| tnent vas offered by Chairman Volstnad
| t,f the Judiciary curnmitteo
Hearings on The legislative bills show
the, Uncle Sam IL collecting annually
| slu. fpn. 600 for the = ale of liquors. for
legitimate non-heva m ge purposes. This
i. possible through tax If 81 20 per
gallon levi ed on whisky withdrawn frofn
bonded warehouses;. The COMM t'ee was
| told that a,Onn.opn gallons month are
heng Withdrawn.
Commissioner of Internal Rev.nue
| Williams said Prohibition agents are oper
| to all sorts Of temptations, with al
kinds of bribea Offered tn them Some
oi them have fallen, he continued. and
| Of course, that IL 10 be expected. but these
| asents hnuii hn paid better salary
when man feels the pinch Of hunger fo,
hi. family and bis home he is apt IN "
wrong
/ Officials ri tho Internal Revenue anf
Prohibition Bureau. ne believed 70 b.
preparing fnr a nstion-wida drive araina'
zc-calisd tonic. thst contain sufficient
alcohol 10 ho Intoxicating. Samples D
varisrp "tou,es," "eIisirs" and s'rrjuve
natorss found for sale in Washington w-r,
today turned over 70 experts m The lal,o
rsfory of the Tr easl,Yy Department {,
have their alcoholic content determined.
The collection wa4 made by s. n Ed
wasv3e, kend 81 the Federal Pypbesson IN
fore~se~nt work in the District ~ Colun,
bsA. and q wAA stats4d that sctS1u viii h
taken Axainst manufacturers and dis
s1ib,tnr of illegal aleoholi~ concurfiara
rather than sTaiust the smell retailers
New York. Jan Through forgery
bribery and corruption at least 800, 900,
900 worth of liquor haH been withdraw
from bond By the hoetleggsr rings il
New York, according 70 the latest figure
Il The Special Intelligence init ef th
Internal Revenue Bureau investigstin
liquor graft.
The amazing amount of money IN
volvrd and the widespread corruption
among Prohibition enforcement official
and agents has been revealed through tn
operations of Chief Hugh McQuillan q
the Intelligence Unit and his men. Alread
over 900 fraudulent withdrawal pei
mlts calling for the delivery Of millions &
gallons OF liquor from bond have bee
4 scovered in the Offices OF Charles
O'Connor, New York State prohIbitio
director. and other places
The forged permits called for the r,
leape Of lots from 10 10 1000 barrels {
whiskey A complete oheck-up TO ascel
tain the destination of the liquor ha
been started The plo. is widespread an
tho present indications are that eeveTl
rings have been at work in New York
, was established yesterday that the boo
leggers have used the names OF reputabl
business firms on some Of their forge
perrnits. BY various means they diverte
the liquor after Il had been withdrawn
their own storehouses. Some of the ev
dence tends 20 show that well-known cor
Germs here have profted BY aSsociatio
with the liquor rings.
Twenty forged permits calling for th
delivery OF 1000 eases and Is barrels {
vhiskey which had already been will
drawn were discovered yesterday in Nj
O'C'onnor's Office This liquor illegal
7 withdrawn was worth s267 ,0o0 Permit
! directing tho delivery of LOCO cases an
! S. barrels of whiskey valued at s2l2, sc
, were found before the liquor could !
withdrawn from bond