The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
|DAUGHER1Y GIVES
ORDERS TO PUSH
ALL LIQUOR CASES
Federal Attorneys Instructed to
Cooperate With Every En-
forcement Agency
URGES HEAVY PENALTIES
Calls Attention to Breweries
Reported as Violating the
Volstead Law - :

Attention of Federal authorities
throughout the country has been called
officially to the necessity of co-operat-
ing closely with the Prohibition en-
fforcement agencies with a view to
lcurbing the extensive violations of the
Volstead law, says Washington As
ISOLATED Press dispatch of November
70.
Federal attorneys have been IN
structed to push all pending liquor
cases and to suggest when proper the
imposition of the heaviest penalties on
conviction. Their attention was called
specifically to reports that some cereal
beverage manufacturers were market
ing product of illegal alcoholic con-
tent.
No suggestion was made in the Of
fetal instructions that the Prohibition
enforcement machinery had failed to
handle adequately its tasks. The
order to Federal attorneys on the con-
trary was said to have been drawn
with view to enissting their CO.
operation in campaign to insure
general respect for all laws.
Among the suggestions as 10
methods of cooperation Federal at
torneys were instructed to expedite all
liquor cases on their dockets and ad.
wise as to the best procedure in Ger
tain classes of cases. Joint action
with local authorities was urged The
circular order sent by Attorney Gen.
eral Daugherty to all United States
attorneys follows:
You are requested to give imme-
date attention to the condition of
the enforcement Of Prohibition
laws in your district, to analyse its
problems, to examine the condi-
ton of your docket in respect
thereto, and to report to the de-
partment any suggestions you
may have to make enforcement
more effective. a,ts
/ urge upon you the necessity
! OF adopting every means for clear
ing the docket and pushing Pro-
hibition cases to an early trial.
Whatever possible and to what
ever extent you can with propriety
do so, we desire that you urge
the courts to give more severe
= sentences to violators of the liquor
vi laws. }
: Injunction Features Cited
4 Your attention is invited to the
p injunction features of the National
= Prohibition act Nusances pro-
ceedings have BEEN found to be
:. an effective means of control and
n more frequent resort to them is
desired. This department is
ready, as it always has been, to
assist you by furnishing forms of =,
: briefs of authorities for institute
=, ing this practice in your district.
I'll We are sending to United States
Il attorneys, in districts where brew
cries are, criminal informations
!. and bills for injunction proceed
A ings against individuals and COM
. panies unlawfully manufacturing
4 cereal beverages. We desire that
? these be filed and tried promptly.
i The need for this is especially ap-
:, parent in injunction proceedings,
as the court may De reluctant to
grant restraining orders if the
evidence shows the nuisance to
have been committed at a remote
] period.
Violate One, Disrespect Others
Wherever there is an adequate
local Prohibition law, endeavor By
every means at your command to
stimulate enforcement of it by
local officers. Seek to establish,
as far as your Office can, spirit
of cooperation between state and
Federal enforcement agencies to the
end that each discharge its just
proportion of the obligation Of
enforcement.
Believing that violation of one
law tends to disrespect of other
laws, these suggestions are made
to you as means of carrying
out the policy repeatedly indicated
in correspondence from this de-
partment of rigidly and uniformly
enforcing all laws.