The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-06
By J. BART CAMPBELL, News Service Staff Cor
 respondent.

By J. BART CAMPBEjIIlJ.
 International News Service Staff Cor respondent
 Washington, oct. 6-RepubIican and Democratic Senators, who have waged long and determined fight against the ''anti-beer bilr, declare succeed dn fixing public attention upon the Fourth Amendment to the Unit ed States Constitution.
 When they started their fight against indiscriminate search and seizure by prohibition agents they were aware they faced overwhelming odds in the dry majority of Con- gress, which has seldom failed to heed the demands of the Antd-Saloon League for the tightening of prohibit l ton restriction abount the Ameri- can people.
 Amendment Still Alive.
 But their real purpose, they say, | was to begin an agitation that would | remind the American people that there is such a thing as the Fourth Amendment still in existence, despite | the fact that even long before these 1 Volstead days it was frequently ig- l nored in prohibition enforcement in "dry'' states and communities. 1 Senator Sterling CR.), of South Da- | kota and other dry leaders of Con- gress contend there is nothing in the search and seizure provision they | which is in conflict with the spirit or | the letter of the Fourth Amendment. | Their opponents argue otherwise, and | the controversy will doubtless end in l the courts, as many disputes over pro- hibition enforcement invariably do l The Stanley amendment, sponsored by Senator Stanley (D), of Kentucky, and adopted by the Senate unanimous 1y, even Senator Sterling agreeing to discriminate raids upon the home and personal property by the prohibit ton police" unless they could show probable cause" or were armed with Cfx- fVarE Fl or to bind them strictly to the restric- tions clearly imposed upon search and seizure by the Fourth Amendment.
 Drys Hard to Please.
 against the Senate's unanimous action
 and demanded the rejection of the Stanley amendment when the anti
 beer bill was sent to the conference
 Even a substitute amendment pro-
 posed by Representative Volstead
 (RD, of Minnesota. whose name the
 prohibition enforcement act bears
 which was adopted by the House by
 a decisive vote of 120 to 55, didn't
 suit the "bone-drys'
 Wayne B. Wheeler. general counsel
 for the Anti-Saloon League, even
 found himself in the uncomfortable
 position of being bitterly criticized by
 some of the "extremists'' in his owr
 organization for permitting the House
 to adopt Volstead's amendment
 Volstead was himself assailed on the
 House floor by some "dry'' spokes'
 men for fathering a proposition which
 he admitted would, by it's limitation of search and seizure. probably per
 init home brew not intended for sale i Extremely dry House members ] clamored for authorization of prohib. ition agents to turn the home inside out and to prevent a drop of alcohol, ic liquor from being made or used within it. Representative Field: (D.). of Kentucky. an avowed "bone
 dry.' sought to limit the protection
 of the home by causing the manufac ture of liquor to be made sufficien
 reason for the issuance of a searcI
 less of the question of intent to sell
 Fields proposal was beaten by a vot' |. of 96 to 54.
 Then Wheeler, spokesman and lob
 byist for the Anti-Saloon League
 slipped into the room in which th Senate and House conferees wer' } meeting. whereupon Senator Ash
 Senate conferees, ''bolted' the con ference with the declaration that h
 would agree to the Stanley amend ment or nothing. His departur left the "bone-dryS' in control of tn | conference, and they promptly toss , ed both the Senate and House amend ments into the nearest waste-b -baske
 the following "bone-dry'' substitut for them.
 ' "Section 6. That any officer. agen- , or emp1oye of the United States en | aged in the enforcement of this act CT the national prohibition act, O
 any other law of the United State: who shall search any private dwellfn as defined in the national prohibitio
 act a1d- occupied as such dwelling