Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-15
Tentative Conclusions Of
Law Enforcement Commits
sion Omit Such Change.
4 PER CENT BEER REPORT
AUTH0RITATIvELY DENIED
Members Forecast '"There Will Be
No PussyfOoting" in Dealing
With Situation.
~ tha AssocIated Prass.

By the Associated Press.
Repeal Of the eighteenth amendment
has been definitely discarded BY Presi.
dent Hoover's Law Enforcement Conn
mission as q solution Of the present
prohibition problem.
The commission members today had
reached certain tentative conclusions--
all Of them subject to change-as to
what they believe should be done to
improve the situation surrounding the
dry law. such an eventually as repeal.
however, was not included among them.
. An authoritative denial has been en-
tered. also, to the often-repeated runors
that the commission as . whole viii
recommend Z per cent beer. or that e
win urge q national referendum to de-
termine sentiment upon the prohibition
law.
Silent on Modification.
Whether . final agreement viii be
reached upon some plan to strengthen
the present system, or whether some
form Of modification win be urged.
however, remained q question which
only the IL members Of the commits
sion could answer, and the secret was
guarded with the same care that has
surrounded all their II months Of pro-
hihition deliberation.
Word has come from within the COM
mission ranks. nevertheless, that these
~ months Of investigation have uncov-
cred astounding" things, and that
there win be no pussyfooting" in the
forthcoming dry law report. From cer-
tain members also has come assurance
that the report surely can be laid on
President Hoover's desk by January j,
and probably before.
While members Of the commission, IN
recess until November "a, continued in
formally the work Of preparing the re-
port another attack was made on the
Republican party leadership Of Senator
Tess Of Ohio because Of his dry stand.
Representative Britten Republican,
uiin0is, last night said Net8 SHOULD re-
| sign as chairman Of the pa1Iy'n national
committee Immediately, turning man
agement of the Republican machine
over to some one who can properly
sense public opinion"
senator Simeon Fess," said Repre-
sentative Britten In his statement lis
chairman Of the Republican National
Committee and as such his views on
prohibition are very naturally presumed
to portray the attitude Of the Hoover
administration and the Republican
party toward that vexatious question.
IF Senator Tess Is indebted to the
Anti-Saloon League for something It
has done for him in the past, he may
feel duty bound to repay that debt,
even though doing so carries him down
to defeat with the fast-sinking Saloon
League, but he should not be per-
mitEed TO drag the entire Republican
party down with him and his unpopu-
lar associates"
Plan Separate Opinions.
Earlier in the day the Ohio Senator
had been defended for his position by
Senator Brookhart, Republican, Iowa.
CoincidentaIly with the Britten state
ment, g prediction came from DR.. Ar
thur J. Barton, chairman Of the Execl-
tive Committee of the Anti-Saloon
League, that the drys IN Congress viii
not agree to submit an eighteenth
amendment repeal proposal to the
States.
Under present plans Of the Law En-
forcement Commission, when It con-
venes as whole Monday after next. II
viii have before it i've or six written
statements prepared by members DUR
ing the recess. Then win come period
Of concentrated discussion, definitely
settling conclusions already tentatively
reached and welding the results into .
report. Unless plans are changed, the
commission will meet up until the day
before Thanksgiving, adjourn for day,
and Immediately convene again to con-
tinue the final drive.
It has also been planned at the con-
clllsion Of the report to have each menu
Der write an opinion on the problem
they have been tackling. describing how
each arrived at his own conclusion, and
his personal feeling toward the recon-
would be attached to the report itself
as it is laid upon Mr.. Hooveris desk.