Evening star., 1926-04-23
Government of Country Is
Threatened by Condition,
Dever Tells Senators.
SAYS PUBLIC SALE HAS
BEEN DRIVEN FROM CITY
Urges Impartial Body to Study
State of Nation Under Prohibition.
Believes Remedy Possible.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN

The fair name of Chicago was
vigorously defended by Mayor William
f. Dever before the Senate judiciary
subcommittee at the prohibition hear
ings today.
Mayor Dever insisted that public
selling of liquor had been driven out
of the city limits. He admitted that
there is a vast horde of bootleggers
and prohibition law violators in the
big towns in Cook County.
But the authorities of Chicago have
no more control in those towns than
this Senate committee" said Mayor
Dever.
Conditions have been created in this
country, particularly in Chicago and
other big cities, Mayor Dever said.
thing must be done.
Urges Study Commission.
Just what should be done, Mayor
Dever said he was unable to say.
His recommendation TO the committee
was that some kind of an impartial
body be created to study thoroughly
the conditions existing under prohi-
bition. He expressed confidence that
with the. information SO obtained ii
would be possible for American
craftsmanship to evolve a remedy.
Mayor Dever insisted that there
was no one today qualified through
actual knowledge to say what course
should be adopted. Conditions have
arisen. however, he said in Chicago,
where officials of the Government. in
Guiding judges, are elected on one
question alone, and that is whether
they are for or against prohibition.
Such condition, he said is intolera-
BILE and eventually will undermine the
Government of the country itself.
Andrews Back on Stand.
Gen Lincoln G. Andrews was put on
the stand as a witness for the drys
today and told the committee the
various steps which he has instituted
in the year of his service as head of
prohibition enforcement TO bring about
more effective enforcement of the
law.
Chairman Harreld of the Senate
committee, announced at the close of
the hearing today that the hearings
would be definitely closed tomorrow.
The drys still have hours and
% minutes time in which to com
ol ate their case The vets still have
to accommodate the crowds who
clamor for admission TO the committee
room, Chairman Harreld announced
the hearings tomorrow would be held
in the ma joritV caucus room on the
third floor of the Senate Office
Building.
Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel
for the Anti-Saloon League, will oc-
cupy the final hour for the drys to-
morrow. The rest of the dry time
will be given over to the testimony
of Gen. Andrews and one or two
others.
Wants College Editor Called.
Senator Reed of Missouri just be-
fore the close of todays hearing
asked that the editor of the Yale
Daily News be requested to appear
tomorrow, since that publication re-
Gently printed a denial of the testi-
mony given by Prof. Irving Fisher of
Yale. who appeared for the drys. 1t
was agreed that if the editor of the
Yale Daily News was present tomor-
row he would be heard out of a part
of the vets time.
The closing argument for the vets,
it is expected, will be made by Julian
Goldman of Boston, their counsel
At the outset of his testimony today
Mayor Dever- said that it was his aim
to keep Republican politics out of his
testimony, but that the Chicago news
papers had printed the statements of
United States Attorney Olsen, attack
ing the municipal authorities of Chi
cago. and that he felt he must reply
to them. He said that Olsen had
made a statement in Omaha, Nebr.,
Yesterday to the effect that the mayor
of Chicago was the only official who
had sought to do his duty.
This pussyfooting of Mr.. Olsen is
too late" said Mayor Dever. He said
that the practice of making charges
against officials and then denying
them was "a by-product of the Vol
stead law
Council Supports Acts.
Mavor Dever said that the Demo
cratic narty controls the City Council
of chicago. and that it has supported
all of his acts looking to law enforce
,nent. Replying to a charge by Mr..
Olsen before the Senate committee
that the Chicago police are not CO.
operating to wipe out violations OF the
nrohibition law, Mayor Dever called
attention to the fact that of the Z8
nrohibition cases before the Federal
courts in Chicago now pending 26
were brought in by the city police.
Mavor Dever said that Chicago Is
a. CITY 25 miles long, that on the city
borders were large communities,
some of them with populations of
GO 600 or 10000 and that there has
never been any effort on the part of
Federal or local or county officials In
those communities to help the Chicago
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