The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-05-24
HOUSE VOTES 100000
FOR ENFORCEMENT OF
PROHIBITION LAWS
Will Permit Retention of 700
Enforcement Agents on
the Payroll

Washington. May %. - After heated
discussion Of Hc prohibition question.
during which Commissioner Kramer was
bitterly criticized and ~ vigorously de-
Tended. the house today voted an ad-
d!tional 100000 for enforcement OF the
Folstead act until July l.
Representatives. Eolstcad proposed the
increase in the total of the deficiency
appropriation bill which the house was
considering. to permit retention on led
erl payrolls Of seven hundred prohibi-
tion agents. who. Mr. Kramer had an
nounced. would be dropped for the re-
mainder Of the fiscal year. because of
shortage OF funds
The Nolstcad amendment was adopted
- 10 IS, less than one fourth OF the
house members being on the floor at the
time. but another vote on the increase
can T." demanded before tho oil is
passed
Even tho members who favored the
amendment however. doubted whether
Il would afford relief in time To DC of
much value, !naSmuch as the bill after
passage by the house. must go TO the
senate.
Kramer Under Hirs.
During tho wranglmE over the qucs-
ton. Chairman Good. of the appropria-
Tons committee. who opposed the Vol
stead amendment said Mr.. kramer had
violated penal provisions of law py in
curing a deficit and had made him
self liable TO jail sentence"
Il want Mr.. Kramer TO obey the law
just as much as bootlcgGers." he de-
clarcd adding that 3s.9O0Ooo already
had been appropriated for prohibition en-
fnrcemcnt during the current fiscal
year.
Representative Madden. republican, IL
l!noiS. said Mr.. Kramer should have ap-
pcalcd for funds to congress through
III" secretary Of tho treasury instead or
through tho newspapers and asserted
that he Ought 10 be discharged"
Defended BY Byrns.
Mr. Kramer. on the other hand, was
defended by Representative Byrns. Ten
nesscc. ranking democrat, Of the appro-
priatinnS committee as a conscientious
official doing his best TO enforce the
law. The Tennessee member said he never
had heard it charged that Mr.. Kramer
was not conscientious and was guilty OF
ma!f"aSanCe in Office.
Mr. Nolstead defended Mr. KramerS
administration declaring there was no
ground for criticism.
Declaring no estimate for additional
funds for prohibition enforcement had
been submitted 10 tn" appropriations OF
tho committee. which drafted the bill.
and that no ore had appeared before
the committee To explain tho situation.
ByruS said that II the secretary of the
treasury had requested funds nc would
kavo gotten all he wanted
As the house milicd through the de-
deficiency bill today. a provision for III"
Cr,.ltinn OF an uniTG Of first assistant
secretary Of tho treasury at Il salary of
$1O.O00 Il year and an amendment by
Representative, Davis, democrat. Ten
ncSen. providing for purchase by the
government Of slnn. .nm0.0 900 Of farm loan
bank loans. were eliminated on points Of
order.
on" provision approved would permit
the treasury department IN spend any
part Of the s1S.600.Go0 appropriated last
session, for additional hospital facilities
for disabled s"ryir" men in the improve
mcnt Of existing facilities.
Tho original bill provided that Sle.-
500. 200 was Ia be expended for now
hospitals.