Evening star., 1926-04-08

an arrangement would produce a
different kind Of prohibition in
different States. He said his answer
to that would be yes" He added.
, however. that various States have
different kinds of prohibition now.
Quizzed Regarding Stills.
The witness was questioned by
Senator Reed of Missouri and MIR.
Goldman as to how many stills are
being operated in private houses in
New York
lie said he could not answer that
but that about five such cases q week
were picked up by the police. These
cases, he said, can be approached
from the standpoint of the fire
hazzard they create in tenement
houses. and said the defendants us-
ually plead guilty and get from 80
| to 50 days.
This reference to stills in private
homes caused Mr.. Buckner to predict
that IL Gen. Andrews is given ade-
quate machinery and higher paid
agents and should succeed in stopping
the free flow of alcohol, II would re.
suit in the setting up Of numerous
stills In cellars and garages to supply
the demand formerly taken care OF by
the supply thus eliminated.
Reed Amuses Crowd.
The crowd in the hearing room was
amused when Senator Reed asked Mr..
Buckner IL he knew. anything about
stills made up of an ordinary tin pail,
a few bricks. half gallon of sour
oh Iitt fSro n
followed this question Immediately
with q query about the possible use or
corn sugar in producing alcohol.
Those are assignments | have not
had occasion TO study yet" MIR. Buck
ner replied.
Senator Reed then questioned the
witness as to whether it was not more
difficult to- enforce law prohibiting
a thing which people do not regard as
bad in itself than it is to enforce a
law which Is on its face crime, sucn
as stealing.
Mr.. Buckner insisted that he believed
prohibition could be enforced with ade-
quate machinery.
With the conclusion Of Mr.. Buck
ners testimony the committee ao-
journed until 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning.
Ware Called 10 Stand.
The wit tnesses called by the vets last
night included Representative ware OF
Pennsvlva MIA, who is running against
Senator Pepper and Gov. Pinchot TOT
the Republican senatorial nomination
this Fall: Alfred j. Talley, former
Judge of the Court Of General Ses-
sions at New York; DIR. William 4.
Woodward of New York. secretary OF
the bureau of legal medicine and leg
islation of the American Medical As
sociation. and Hudson Maxim, the IN
ventor.
The night session, like those pre-
| ceding it, was punctuated with laugh
| ter and brisk dialogue. and the former
| New York judge received the first pro-
| Ionged demonstration of applause
evoked during the hearing from the
| crowded spectators when he explained
TO Senator Harreld, Republican. Okla
| homa. a dry, why he thought that, If
| YOU give the people light wine and
| beer. they will not give whoop about
had liquor
You put beer and wine in the
/ open" he said. "and you remove the
| incentive of seeking the forbidden.
You will remove bootleg liquor; you
will remove the bootlegger, and you
will abolish the speak easy.
He also expressed the opinion that
| conditions would be 'immeaSurably
| better" and crime would be reduced
tremendously" if the eighteenth
| hibition law. he said, Is "the greatest
single menace confronting U.S."
| Ware Supports Edge.
/ Mr.. Ware supported a proposal by
| Senator Edge, Republican. New Jer-
sey. to legalize the sale of beverages
| mountaineering in fact. To supple
ment this proposal. the New Jersey
Senator has introduced another. which
would permit each State to define the
words. Intoxicating in fact" as used
! in the eighteenth amendment, and fix
drastic penalties for the shipping into
any State of a beverage stronger than
| il permitted.
| Mr.. Ware told the committee that
| legalization of the sale of beer would
| restore an industry in which $792 .914.-
| 900 was invested and Sc 900 workers
employed prior to 1920: open a mar
ket for farm products valued at $751;
520.287 13 years ago, and create a
m>Oket for materials estimated at
s129 .6S5.4S9 annually.
DIR. Woodward testified in favor of
the Edge proposal to remove liquor
\
as foolish the provision in the law
permitting prescription of the same
amount of liquor for an infant as for
chronic or near-chronic drunkard." 4"
Says Need Is Easily Met.
Senator Harreld suggested that. II
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 Senator
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 at all, returned Senator Har-
reid What I meant was. the doctors
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