Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
.BORAH THREATENS
|. DRY FORCE PROBE
IN HERBERT ISSUE
Idahoan Reveals His Office
Is Under Observation by
Justice Officers.
WICKERSHAM LETTER
ON BEER DISCLOSED
Draft of Bill Providing for
Transfer of Enforcement
Begun in House.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The prospect of Senate investigation
of prohibition enforcement agencies
thrust itself forward at the Capitol to-
day as vets and drys in Congress went
after each other with renewed fury.
The prohibition discussion also spread
to other parts of the city, with organi-
cations supporting and opposing the
eighteenth amendment issuing state
ments and Chairman Wickersham of
the Hoover Law Enforcement Commits
sion disclosing he would place the Dyer
proposal to amend the law to permit
ais per cent beer before the commits
sion for consideration.
Further it became known chat SEN
ator Borah, Republican, Idaho. a leader
of the drys, had been advised that the
Justice Department was watching his
office. Borah laughingly said he was
not interested, as there was nothing
there of interest.
VIII Ask Investigation.
The Idahoan, however, indicated he
would ask the Senate judiciary COM
enforcement
agencies as a result of the disagree
ment between himself and Assistant
Secretary Lowman of the Treasury over
the qualifications of John F. @. Herbert
as dry administrator for Montana and
Idaho. Senator Wheeler, Democrat,
Montana, has taken a position similar
to Borah regarding Herbert.
Borah has said if what he has been
told about Herbert is true, the man
should be in the penitentiary instead
OF holding a Federal Office
In the House Representative Celler.
Democrat, New York, described as
silly a statement by Attorney General
Mitchell that he was opposed to those
in the prohibition service who drank
or did not believe in prohibition. The
New Yorker said such a view would
have prevented Woodrow Wilson and
Warren G. Harding from serving and
now would bar such men as Newton d.
Baker and Alfred E. Smith.
Require Competitive Examination.
The House expenditures COMMITTEES
amended the Williamson bill to re-
quire all prohibition agents except the
director and the assistant director to
stand competitive civil service exami-
nation. This measure would provide
for the transfer of the Prohibition
Bureau from the Treasury to the Justice
Department.
The Board of Temperance, Prohibi-
ton and Public Morals of the Methodist
Episcopal Church issued a statement
ENDORSING Mr. Mitchell's view on pro-
hibition officers.
AN attitude of hostility to the pro-
hibition law" 1t said, lis fatal handi-
cap to an official charged with duties
connected with enforcement"
During the day, Henry H. Curran,
president of the Association Against the
Prohibition Amendment, wrote Chair
man Christopherson of the House iu-
dietary subcommittee, protesting against
the Christopherson bills to carry out the
Law enforcement Commission recon-
mendation that United States commits
sioners be given authority to try minor
dry law cases.
Curran also suggested that $500 ,000,-
OOO be provided as a minimum sum for
prohibition enforcement.
Inc Wlckersham communication to
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