The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-02-14
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PROHIBITION
Judiciary Committee Has Seven
Proposals for Changing Law
By HERBERT LITTLE

United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, Feb. IL - Investi-
cation of prohibition as a national
policy after 10 years of trial will
be started formally tomorrow by
the house judiciary committee in
its impressive big hearing-room in
the House office building.
The % representatives on the
committee, most of them prohibit
tionists, will listen from their ele-
waited semi-circular rostrum at one
end of the room, to witnesses, ex-
pected to number more than 100,
appearing before them in the next
few weeks. The hearings were
announced two weeks ago by
! Chairman George Scott Graham
Of the committee, and large
number of outstanding national
figures are TO testify on both
sides.
Presence of several of the most
prominent and voluble of the wet
members of congress, including
La Guardia, Republican, N. Y,
and Dyer, Republican, Mo-, on the
committee, insures that the "an-
: it's" will get an adequate hearing.
This committee has been the
{ final resting place of several hum
: dred anti-prohibition bills in the
last 10 years. In 1924 it held a
series of hearings on modification
proposals without recommending
any legislation, and in 1926 a SEN
ate committee held similar hear
! ings without taking any action.
= The reason for holding hearings
, at this time has not been explain
ed, although Chairman Graham
did say he believed the anti-prohi-
= bitionists and modificationists
! were entitled to a hearing. He
announced the hearing without
4 formal request being made, short
ly after the house "wet bloc" Of
. some so members announced it:
intention of holding unofficial
! hearings to place its side of The
" question before the country.
Seven joint resolutions, provid
= ing everything from outright re
I, e peal of the eighteenth amendmen
= to state regulation of liquor AM
authorization of three per cent al
coholic beverages, are before tn
!, committee. The proposal of Mrs
= Norton, Dem, N. j., for refer
~ endum by states, is also before II
After these hearings, which ma
take several weeks, a subcommit
In tee headed by Rep. Dyer will hol
Z hearings to get expert testimon
Oh on the Dyer bill to allow beer cor
D. tanning 275 per cent of alcohol b
or weight to be made and sold. Dye
contends this beverage is non-ir
ne toxicating.
ne The committee includes 10 n
IS publicans and eight Democrats, a
n lawyers. The Republicans al
dc Chairman Graham, Pennsylvani;
lr- Leonidas C. Dyer, Missouri; Cha
lr- A. Christopherson, South Dakot'
sd' Richard Yates. Illinois; Earl
Oh Michener, Michigan; Andrew
I'D Hickey, Indiana; J. Banks Kurt
~ pennsylvania, y. Ellis nIooA
Ohio; George r. Stobbs, Mass
- chusetts; Fiorella H. LaGuardl
New York; Hover w. Hall, Ii
- nois; Carl G. Bachmann, We
SM Virginia; Charles A. Jonas, Nor
iii Carolina, and Charles E. Swanso
iii The Democratic members ar
I'll Iowa.
Sill Hatton w. Summers, Texas; A
81 drew ]. Montague, Virginia; FIR
'llI H. Dominiclz, South Carolln
Henry st. George Tucker, VI
III oinia; William C. Hammer, Nor
iii Carolina; Tom d. McKeown, Ok
II homa; Gordon Browning, Tennt
see. and Emanuel Celler, M
III York.