Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-10-01
ENFORCING PROHIBITION

Congress began its thirty days without having
come an agreement the sixth section Of the beer bill
The controversy that section involves Of great
importance.
The Attorney General had rendered decision that yir
tuay opened the way very large OF beer and Con
gres had made the decision strengthen the Nostead Act
the side thus threatened and in other directions that
perience had shown be weak The House passed the
BILL but the Senate called attention certain abuses that
had sprung up under e law and undertook stop them
One Of the abuses is the action oil officers dcputed to
enforce the law in entering without search warrant the
residences OF citizens whom they suspect OF holding qou
illegally, stopping in the street and elsewhere and
searching them jumping automobiles and invading other
premises suspicion Also some persons who hold
official authority have committed violations of personal
rights in performing voluntary service in enforcing the law
The therefore added another section the bill
the sixth, which provides that officer shall enter the
premises search the property OF citizen with
warrant and that any person who falsely represents
himself be officer for the purposeof search, shall be
punished
The conference committee recommended compromise.
Officers be forbidden the houses of pri-
persons without search warrant but unauthorized
search of the clothing other property of suspected viola
tors OF the law not forbidden The House accepted
the compromise but the Senate took without
ton on it.
The Senate probably strong in favor OF prohibition
the House is But it holds that the law should protect
premises and property from the unreasonable searches
the Constitution and that the protection should extend
persons and to other property we'll as residences.
Senators also profess TO fear that the law is enforced with
great disregard for personal rights reaction may
in that will greatly weaken the law itself.
fight is being made in the present Congress to revo-
lutonze method of evying adj valorem tariff
In the past these upon cost of the
goods in the country of origin fixed by the consular
invoices. 1t is proposed base the upon the
tho,
by the openmarket where such goods ordinarily sold
offered for sale in the usual wholesale quantities 1t is i'm
tended that such valuation shall be fixed by the actual and
fair arket value OF the goods in the United States, ndepend
emily OF any artificial fluctuations
This plan, called American valuation has the support OF
such experts Secretary Hoover Customs Judge Marion
De Vries and multitude of representative American bust
at the head of large industries. little thought
will show the justice and feasibility of the plan.
Granting that the object OF protective tariff is pro-
tect local industry against unfair competition OF cheap for
egn labor and that the object of any tariff should be
give equal treatment to all similar imports OF whatever
origin will readily be that American valuation is the
only fair plan II certain article be made in Germany
for 81 andn England for So al valorem tariff tax
is 50 per cent the German article would pay 80
while the identical English article would pay 90
There is no justice in that dscrimnaes in favor OF
the countries having the cheapest labor and the most de-
precaed money exactly in proportion that derential
Thus the more stable country suffers only the penalty
of its stability, but also the penalty OF higher tariff
tax.
1t has been pointed out that this in reality, constitutes
violation OF some of our international treaties Some
nations have treaties with containing the favored
nation clause. This that the treatment guaranteed
to that country in any matter OF interpreting laws shall
be favorable that which granted the most favored
nation III that respect Under such treaty England would
have right claim low her imports as that APP
lied similar imports from from Germany or anywhere
else This certainly would be just but it would
ntermnabc confusion under the present ad yaorem plan
1t would turn the whole system into chaos
The chief argument that has been advanced against
American Valuation is by importers, who claim that it
would deprive them OF any certain method OF estimating
their tax in advance and thus reduce ther business TO
gamble
While there is some merit in that argument is not