The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-06
Law Enforcement Department
Seeks Big Appropriation.
Total of S9,OOO,OOO Is Needed
for Next Fiscal Year.
DISPOSITION TO TIGHTEN UP
Commissioner Reports "Fine
Cooperation From States"
Says Jail Sentences and Fines
Are Becoming Heavier.

Washington, Dec. 6.-The crisis IN
the federal prohibition enforcement
fight has been reached in the opinion
of Commissioner Haynes. it was dis
closed today in reports of recent hear
ings before a house appropriations
sub b-committee."
In asking s9,OO0,0OO for the next
fiscal year, for his department Mr..
Haynes told the committee tEat II a
similar amount was allowed for pro-
hibitiOn enforcement continuously for
five or six years. a reduction then
ought to be possible, but that the criti-
cal period for enforcement was pow at
hand.
Mr. Haynes said there were $500
men employed in the work of prohibi-
ton enforcement. Because the appli-
cations asked for next year represents
a reduction of S250,000 from this
years outlay, he said, there would be
a slight reduction in his forces but he
hoped to re-arrange the organization
so as not appreciably to lessen its ef-
ficiency.
Courts More Sympathetic.
The prohibition commissioner told
the committee that he was "gratifiedr
with the present functioning OF his
enforcement machinery, and that the
department was securing fine co-op-
Grafton" from states and counties in
the main. Courts were becoming
Jail sentence and fines were becoming
heavier.
There is a general disposition TO
tighten up he added.
In the fiscal year ended June 80
1922, the prohibition commissioner
said there were 2O.4SS convictions for
violations of the prohibition law. Ac-
quittals numbered 1925, cases dropped
3,217 and civil cases disposed OF 541-
At the end of the year said Is 9lu
cases were pending, bringing the total
of cases handled to 44,779. These fig
ures, he said, did not include cases In
state courts Fines deposited in the
treasury he placed at $2,791.00O. In
many cases, proceedings towards for
feiture of bonds and other assessments
were pending.
Mr.. Haynes asked for $150,O00 for
buying evidence" and told the COM
mittee $4,000 had been spent in that
way during the last year.
Quericd on Publicity.
The prohibition commissioner un-
derwent a long examination at the
Massa chusetts, who inquired particu-
larry about the method of handling
the departments publicity. referring to
what he termed the wildly extrava-
giant" statements he said emanated
from the bureau. One of these. he
said, credited Mr.. Haynes with hav--
ing asserted that 10000 600 Ameri-
cans had gone on the water wagon
since the enactment OF the VolStead
act. Mr.. Haynes denied knowledge OF
the statement.
Mr. Haynes told the COMMITTEES
there had been a splendid reaction
by the public and Immediately clashes
with Mr.. GalliVan over the results OF
the elections on November Z. the
Massa chusetts representative citing
the voting down in his state of an
enforcement measure, and the COM
missioner asserting that prohibition
had won where conditions were nor
NAL"
More Narcotic Arrests.
In reply to Mr.. Gallivan, Mr.. Haynes
admitted increased arrests under the
narcotic law during the last fiscal
year. but attributed It to the lin
creased efficiency of the narcotic di-
vision. and not to the prohibition law.
Representative Magee. Republican. OF
New York. asked If the Commissioners
did not realize there is a widespread
disrespect defiance and violation OF
the aWs
That is true of all law" replied
Mr.. Haynes. adding that a sub-com-
mittee of the American Bar associa-
ton had made statement that dis
respect for all law was at a maximum
as a natural sequence of the war. Mr..
Magee said there was no such conii-
tion a few years ago and Mr.. Gallivan
insisted that the prohibition law had
caused disrespect for all laws"