San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-26
ECHOES OF DRY
FIGHT RUMBLE
OVER j. s:
Deluge of .'After-hearing'
Statements Follows
Investigation.

WASHINGTON, April 16.--CR-
The tumult and the shouting of the
Senate Prohibition hearing have
ceased, but the echoes continue to
rumble through the capital and else
where.
Both sides apparently are satisfied
with their showing during the three
weeks of testimony. The drys were
confident that some of the bills they
favored to put more teeth in the Vol
stead Act would be recommended to
the Senate. The vets were confident
they had placed their. case against
prohibition before the country; they
would be as greatly astonished as the
drys themselves if the committee
should make favorable report on
any of their liberalization bills.
RECOIL BEGINS.
The shower of statements that was
to be expected after the conclusion
of the hearing began Saturday and
continued Sunday. Representative La
guardia, Progressive-Socialist, New
York, offered a suggestion which he
predicted would force the prohibition
lists to admit that the prohibition law
cannot be enforced and must be modi-
fled" a
His proposal was that Wayne b.
Wheeler, general counsel Of the Anti
Saloon League, be made prohibition
director.
Mr.. Wheeler explained that he did
not take the stand, as he had planned,
because of the "wets' plan to use up
the drys' time by cross examination.
As it was, he said, "a large part OF
the drys' time was consumed by fill
buster cross examination.
100000 FUND.
James MacGuire, chief assistant to
Julian Goldman of Boston, counsel
for the vets, had expressed disappoint-
ment that Mr.. Wheeler did not sub
ject himself to cross examination by
Senator Reed" the Missouri Demo
crat, whose questioning of dry wit
nesses added many a colorful passage
to the long record of testimony.
Senator Reed, said Mr.. MacGuire.
wanted to question the Anti-Saloon
League counsel about reports that his
organization is attempting to collect
81 100000 to be used in electing dry
members 10 Congress.
The S1,000,000 fund charge was de-
MED by Mr.. Wheeler, who countercd
with statement saying he had letters
and literature showing that the vets
task for 100000 for this identical
purpose in addition to the S300,0OO
which they claim they have regularly"
ASK $4,000.
\ The leagues legislative committee,
he added, has sent out an appeal for
$4,000 to offset this" feeling that
I'VE can make one dollar go about
as far as S12 of theirs"
United States Attorney Buckner OF
New York, whose estimates of the cost
of enforcing prohibition in that state
drew fire from the drys, forwarded
to the committee detailed memoranda
to support his figures, on the basis
Of these, he calculated that, with the
trial by jury eliminated, the cost
would be ,$20,021 $50, or, with Jury
trial continued, it would be S70,O76,-
125.
DEFENDS ESTIMATE. =
He also defended his estimate that
bootleg business Of more than So,
900, 100000 year was based on diver
siOns Of industrial alcohol alone. TAX
ing the amount Of denatured alcohol
produced in the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1925, and subtraeting from II
the output Of pre-war year multiplied
by the normal rate of increase estab-
lished in that period, he showed a
difference of 6O.0OO,000 gallons, which
he held was not reasonably required
by industry.
STUDENTS TO VOTE.
The National Student Federation
with members of 400 colleges, mean
while, has announced that it will poll
600 institutions on the prohibition
question through the Harvard Liberal
club. Lewis Fox Of Princeton, presi'
dent of the federation, made public
the ballot, asking the following ques.
! tions:
"Do you favor prohibition in its
present form?
do you favor the repeal Of laws
relating to prohibition?
"Do you favor changes TO allow the
sale Of light wines and beers?
What are your reasons for opinions
given?"