The New York herald., 1921-01-13
HOUSE REFUSES 100
MILLION DRY FUND
Enforcement Budget Finally
Jumped From $6, 100000
to S7,1O0,OO0.
BITTERNESS IN DEBATE
Volstead Warns of Wrath Of
Country if Appropriation
Is Cut Down.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 1.-THE House
went up and down the ladder in voting
to-day on appropriations for enforce
ment of the prohibition law.
First rejecting an amendment to the
pending appropriation measure under
which the Bureau of Internal Revenue
| would be given 500. 900. 900 to break up
outlaw liquor traffic. the House adopted,
S6 to As. an amendment by Representa-
tive Volstead of Minnesota, father of
the law, increasing the total from s6.-
500.0 900 to S71O0,000. Before this vote
was taken the House, jumping from
one extreme TO the other, defeated with
out count an amendment limiting the
amount TO si00,00o.000.
There was a tinge OF old time prohi-
bition bitterness in the half hour debate
preceding the final clearing away of the
whole question as to how far Congress
should go in making the country bone
dry"
Pleading for a larger sum than hau
been fixed by the Appropriations Com
mittee in framing the legislative. execu-
tive and judicial bill. Mr.. Volstead
gave warning that the country would be
heard from If 1t was the policy of Con-
gress to cut down appropriations and
make the Job OF enforcement joke.
Mr.. Volstead said he merely proposed
a figure nearer that which the Attorney
General had requested.
Representative Gallivan (Democrat),
Massa chusetts. gave the House its first
indication that fight was brew
ing by proposing to make the appropria-
ton 500 1900. Taking up the state
ment of Mr. Volstead that good part
of the money spent would come back
in fines, he said:
why this mite? Let's go the limit.
Let S help the new Administration by
bringing back hundred million"
Referring by name to Wayne Wheel
er. general counsel of the Anti-Saloon
League, as Mr. Volstead's legislative
adviser Mr.. Galivan declared Mr..
Wheeler had said he would make 1t SO
dry in Massachusetts, its people would
spit cotton
"They are doing that now" ne de-
| clared. II want to say to the Anti
Saloon League that Massachusetts to-
day is the only State in the Union that
is enforcing the prohibition law. I con-
tend that the sum I suggest is dror
in the bucket when you consider how
much is needed to enforce the law in
the rest of the country"
! Representative Wood OF Indiana. chair
man of the subcommittee In charge OF
the bill. strongly opposed an increase
I asserting that not one dollar should bt
added until the laws enforcement was
placed squarely with the Department 81
Justice.
Other members took part In the discus.
| sion, Representative Cramton. Republt-
can. Michigan. declaring that any re-
duction would be like serving notice or
the people that a reaction had begur
and that an era Of lawbreaking was be-
ginning.
There was a roar from both sides oi
the chamber when Mr.. Gallivan An
nounced he would accept In place OF hi!
amendment a substitute by Representa-
tive Stephens. Republican. Ohio. cuttini
the appropriation to s1.00O.000. Repre-
sentative Mann. Republican. Illinois. oh
jected. and all of the three propositions
were put TO a vote. Mr.. Volstead win
ming. hands down. amid applause from
the Prohibition forces.