The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-24
EXTRA 100000 IS
VOTED BY HOUSE
TO PAY ENFORCERS
Fund Voted In Order to Retain
Seven Hundred Officers
Dropped From Roll for
Lack of Funds

Washington May 2S.-After heated die
cussiou Of the prohibition question dur
ing which Commissioner Kramer was
bitterly criticised and as vigorously de-
Tended, the House today voted an addi-
tional $4,000 for enforcement of the
Volstead act until July J..
Representative Volstead proposed the
increase In the total of the deficiency
appropriation bill, which the House was
considering. to permit retention on fede-
raj payrolls of 700 prohibition agents who
MIR. Kramer had announced would be
dropped for the remainder Of the fiscal
year because of shortage of funds.
The volstead amendment was adopted
II to So, less than one-fourth Of House
membership being on the House floor at
the time, but another vote on the in
crease can be demanded before the bill
is passed
Even the members who favored the
amendment, however, doubted whether
it would afford relief in time TO be of
much value inasmuch as the bill after
passage by the House must go to the
Senate.
SAYS LAW VIOLATED
During the wrangling over the question.
Chairman Good of the appropriations
committee, who opposed the Volstead
amendment, said Mr.. Kramer had vio-
lated penal provisions of law by incur
ring a deficit and has made himself
Iia fia ~ iai1 eoptauca
IL want Mr.. Kramer TO obey the law
as much as bootleggers," he declared
adding that 100000 had been appropriat-
ed for prohibition enforcement during the
current fiscal year
Representative Madden. republican, IL
linois said Mr.. Kramer should have APP
pealed for funds to Congress through the
Secretary of the Treasury instead or
through the newspapers, and asserted
that he ought to be DISCHARGED.
IS ALSO DEFENDED
Mr. Kramer, on the other hand, was
defended by Representative Byrns, Ten
nessee ranking democrat on the appro-
priations committee, as conscientious
official doing his best to enforce the law.
The Tennessee member said he never
had heard it charged that Mr.. Kramer
was not not conscientious and was
guilty Of malfeasance in office.
Mr.. NolStead 0e1endeu NIT. fNiasiel
administration. declaring there was no
ground for criticism.
Declaring no estimate for additional
funds for prohibition had been submitted
to the appropriations committee when
drafted the bill and that no one had sIo
peared before the committee TO expla'H
the situation, Mr.. Byrns said that II
the secretary Of the Treasury had re-
ouested funds he would have gotten all
he wanted.
AS the House milled through the De-
ficiency bin today. provision for the
creation of an office OF first assistant
secretary OF the treasury at salary OF
$40 900 a year, and an amendment oy
Representative Davis, democrat, Ten
nessee providing for purchase by the gov
eminent of s1Oo,o0o,o00 farm loan bank
bonds, were eliminated on points Oh
order. .
One provision approved would permit
the treasury department to spend any
part of SIS, 900 appropriated last ses-
sion for additional hospital facilities TOT
disabled service men in the improve
ment of existing facilities. The original
bill provided that $12500,0o0 was to De
expended for new hospitals.