Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-01
TELLS OF NEW RUM
DISTRIBUTION PLAN
Stayton Testifies Members of
Hoover Commission Were
Considering Change.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Contending President Hoover was
beginning to doubt whether prohibition
can be enforced" william H. Stayton,
chairman of the board of the Associa-
ton Against the Prohibition Amend
ment, also told the Senate lobby COM
mittee today he thought six members
Of the cabinet "are convinced that the
dry law Is failure"
Stayton testified in addition, that
four members of the Hoover Law En-
forcement Commission had told him
they "were trying tn work out some
other plan for distribution of liquor
than under the present law"
He said the members of the Law En-
forcement Commission he had quoted
were Judge william s. Kenyon, Dean
Roscoe Pound, Henry w. Anderson and
another one he could not recall. After
the hearing, he said he inferred these
men were dissatisfied with bootlegging
liquor distribution. -. i,
Members of the cabinet he believed
convinced that the prohibition law Is
failure" were named as Secretaries
Stimson, Davis, Lamont, Mellon, Adams
Stayton, who was directed to reap
pear again tomorrow, said he reached
his opinion concerning President Hoover
after appearing before the Law Enforce
ment Commission and talking with Sen
ators and Representatives.
Queried on Substitute Plan.
He said the four members asked him
questions about a substitute plan and
- @n1f a Nr0
oueried him along that line without
President Hoover's knowledge.
Three of the men whose names he
brought into his testimony were quick
to issue disclaimers when 1t was brought
to their attention.
Commenting upon Mr.. Staytons
statements, Secretary Lamont said he
had not discussed the question Of pro-
hibition since entering the cabinet.
There is no foundation for the
statement" Mr.. Lamont said, except
perhaps, that while a private citizen
1 was a member of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment.
resigned before joining the cabinet and
have not discussed the subject since"
Secretary Adams said there was no
| justification whatsoever for Mr.. Stay
tons assertion that he had opposed the
prohibition amendment. The Secre-
Lary declined 10 elaborate on Quiet
phases Of Mr.. Stayton's remarks.
Plan Not Known to Anderson.
In Richmond, Col. Anderson of the
Law Enforcement Commission, said he
knew of no new plan being considered
by the commission for the distribution
of liquor.
I'VE are considering the problem as
WHOLE" Col. Anderson said, but there
Is nothing to the report of a new plan"
Stayton did not explain to the COM
mittee what he meant by "some other
plan for distribution of liquor" in con-
nection with what he said had been
| told him by members of the Hoover
commission, and committee members
did not question him on the point.
| After the committee adjourned he ex-
planned that the impression he received
| from members of the Law Enforcement
| Commission was that they did not
believe the prohibition law was work.
ing and they wanted to find some sub
stitute"
ct inferred" he added, "that they
were dissatisfied with the distribution of
liquor by bootleggers and thought some
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