The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-04-08
Prohibition Opponents Present
Witnesses At Senate Hearing
UNITED STATES ATToR-
NEY BUcKNER OF NEW
YORK is CALLED
BY COMMITTEE.

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Opponents of prohibition still
had United States Attorney Buck
ner. Of New York. as their star
witness today in the presentation
Of their case against the Volstead
act before the senate committee
conducting a hearing on various
modification proposals.
The committee had an extra
session last night to make up al
i0tted time it had been unable to
give the vets during the first
three regular meetings, but other
witnesses were put on the stand
and resumption Of testimony by
Mr.. Buckner. Al
The witness called by the vets
last night included Representative
Narey Of Pennsylvania, who is
running against Senator Pepper
and Governor Pinchot for the Re-
publican senatorial nomination
this fall. Alfred TalIey, former
judge Of the court Of general sess-
ions at New York, DIR. William G..
Woodward. Of New York, secre-
tary Of the Bureau Of Legal Medi-
cine and Legislation.
'1f you put beer and wine in
the open. and you remove incen-
tive of seeking the forbidden,
you viii remove bootleg liquors,
you will remove the bootIegger,
and you win abolish the speak
easy" said DIR. Woodward.
He also said conditions would
be Himmcasurably better" and
crime "wouId be reduced tremen-
dously" If the Eighteenth amend
Insnt were repealed. The prohibi-
ton law, he said, "is the great
est single menace confronting us. "
Representative Ware supported
proposal by Senator Edge, Re-
publican. New Jersey, to IegaIize
the sale Of beverages enon-intoxi-
eating IN fact" To supplement
this proposal, the New Jersey SEN
ator has introduced another.
whsch would permit each state to
define the words "ihtoxicating in
fact" as used In the Eighteenth
amendment, and fix drastic pen
elites for the shipping into any
state of = beverage stronger than
4 permits.
The Pennsylvania representa-.
tive told the committee that .egis-
lstion Of the sale of beer would
restore an industry in which $780,
$4,000 was invested and $4,000
workers employed prior to 1920,
open market for farm products
valued at ss7.52O ,2S7 thirteen
years ago. and create a market
Tor materials estimated at $l23,-
e55,4s9 annually.
Favors Proposal
DR.. Woodward testified in favor
Of the Edge proposal to remove
hquor prescription restrictions,
describing as foolish the provis-
ION In the law permitting pres
eription OF the same amount of
liquor for an infant as for d
~chKouic or near-chronie drunk.
ard"
Senator Haired suggested that,
Il . physician needed to prescribe
more than the law permits, there
were sources from which to get it.
"The suggestion Of the senator
from Oklahoma remarked Sena-
tor Reed. Democrat. Missouri, the
only wet on the committee, 'is
that the doctor ought TO join the
bootlegging gang because we have
passed an idiotic law"
"Not az ALL" returned Senator
Harreld. "What | meant was, the
doctors could call in bootlegger
10 flll out his supply IL needed. "
'The Medical society," DR..
Woodward told him, doesn't
eountenanee the violation of the
law.
Mr.. Maxim. asserting that pro-
hibision is IAN absolete, abicct
faiiure." related that. while spend
Ing three months In England re.
Gently. he didn't see drunken
man. bat. when returned home.
the first man l saw was drunk. /"
"He came to the boat to meet
me- the 7S-yeAr old inventor add.
ed. 'He was accompanied BY a
man who was drunker than he
was."
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