Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
DECADE. FINDS DRY
]. ,R|FT.IS. WIDENING
Committee viii Be Called to
s Take Up Dry Transfer
Bill Next Week.
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House when Representative Howard Of
Nebraska, dry, paid tribute to Speaker
Longworth for resisting the proposal
for a Joint congressional committee 10
Zeal with prohibition enforcement legis-
tation recommended by the President
and the lLaw Enforcement Commission.
Mr.. Howard said that Mr.. Longwertn
Saad been entirely correct when he de-
slined request from men near the
elbow of President Hoover that the
House Of Representatives would turn
aside from the beaten and time
sAonored practice of molding legislation
Through its own regularly organized
cCmmittees.%
* Committee to Be Called.
/. with the judiciary and immigration
committees of the House already at
work on the proposals of the President
for legislation to relieve congestion OF
the courts due to the large number of
prohibition cases and for unified
border patrol, Chairman Williamson of
the committee on expenditures in the
executive departments announced he
would call his committee together next
week to consider his bill to transfer to
the Department of Justice the duty OF
laws, now lodged with the Treasury
Department This bill seeks to write
into law one of the most important of
the Presidents recommendations.
~ Critics of the Presidents Legislative
program for the more eff1cient enforce
rnent of prohibition object to leaving
the issue of permits for the manufac-
tiIre and use of industrial alcohol in
the Treasury Department. They have
insisted that these permits should be
Handled by the Department of Justice
along with prohibition enforcement.
The charge is made that a great volume
Of Illicit liquor in this country comes
from the misuse Of these permits for
industrial alcohol and that as admins
tered at present there Mas been much
corruption and fraud. 3. = -
. The Williamson bill places an absolute
veto in the hands of the Attorney Gen.
efal on the issue of any permit by the
Secretary of the Treasury for industrial
alcohol Secretary Mellon and his as
sistants, If the bill becomes law as it
Is now written, would be powerless to
grant a permit for industrial alcohol IL
Attorney General Mitchell determined
that it should not be issued.
Complete Reports Required.
Il Paragraph Obs of the sixth section of
the Williamson bill reads:
Except as otherwise provided by
regulations, the Secretary of the Treas
ury shall file with the Attorney General
complete reports of all proceedings for
revocation Of permits and copies of all
applications for permits (including re-
newals and amendments of permits)
under the national prohibition act and
regulations promulgated Hereunder:
and, except as otherwise provided by
regulations, no such permit shall be
granted within ten days after copy of
application therefor has been fled with
the Attorney General"
4. Section Of the same bill continues
1.-The Attorney General may, if he
considers 1t advisable, act jointly with
the Secretary of the. Treasury in pass
ing upon any such application, and in
such cases mo permit shall be granted
without their Joint approval. In the
event Of a refusal Of the permit. the
applicant may have a review of the
decision=Aefore aEourt of equity as pro-
yided In sections 5 and 6, Title II, OF
the national prohibition act" :
Ohjecbon of the proposal Of the