Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23
BECK SAYS HOOVER
|MPER|LED c. 0. P.
Pennsylvania Says Latter's
Stand on Dry Law Report
Hurt Re- election Chances.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The latest legislative developments on
prohibition today strengthened the view
that little or no action will result at
this session of Congress from the Wick
ershan report. Insistently, comment
turned upon future reactions, particu-
larly surrounding the 1882 presidential
elections.
An assertion that President Hoover
had imperiled his chances of reelection
by the fortnight stand against repeal
and for vigorous enforcement he took
in the message accompanying the Law
Enforcement Commissions report was
among the latest statements put forth.
It came last night from an anti-prohi-
bitionist, Representative B.ck, Repub-
lican, Pennsylvania. Earlier Senator
Tess of Ohio, chairman of the Repub-
lican National Committee, had sought
to temper impressions that the Presi-
dent had shut the door on all revision
of the eighteenth amendment by his
unfavorable attitude toward the Substi-
tute suggested by the commission.
Dry Funds Unimpaired.
The best efforts of the wet bloc in
the House yesterday left unimpaired
the appropriations for enforcement
provided in the Justice Department S
supply bill The prohibition foes showed
slightly greater strength than before, but
every effort to curtail activities of the
dry agents was turned back. Likewise
in the Senate an effort by Senator
Tydings, Democrat, Maryland, to strike
from a deficiency bill funds for imme-
date expansion of the dry force was
defeated. Not even record vote was
required.
Representative Back said in his state
ment he believed the Presidents
declaration was particularly unfortunate
because, he held, Democratic presi-
dental victory would be an irreparable
calamity to the Nation"
That he should now, quite unneces-
sariB, reaf1rm that declaration tbelief
in the eighteenth amendment)," said
Beck, sis disheartening to me, not only
as a citizen who Is earnestly striving to
end the reign of corruption, hypocrisy
and oppression but as one who
did his best to secure the nomination
and election of President Hoover and
would like to see him serve second
term under mora favorable conditions.
Watson Blocked Probe.
Another expression on the Presidents
message was that of the Senate's Re
publican leader, Watson of Indiana,
who did not go into future prospects.
He merely said:
IT interpret his message as dry"
Senator Watson, by an objection,
yesterday kept the Tydings resolution
for an investigation of the methods by
which the Wickersham group reached
its conclusions from getting any further.
A House proposal for similar, but
wider study continued to warm shelf.
The leaders in the House expected
today TO pass and send to the Senate
the appropriation bill containing next
years enforcement funds. The most
controversial half of the measure,
which covers four Government depart
ments, has been approved, and although
an effort was anticipated to refer the
whole bill back to committee to take cut
the provision for boosting by 500 the
number of dry agents, defeat of the
move seemed assured.
Association Files Report.
The Senate passed yesterday the de-
ficiency bill, which among other pro-
visions made possible an immediate
smaller increase in agents, but it went
back to the House for approval of
amendments
No move has been made in Congress
yet to take up the suggestion of the
Wickersham Commission that the dry
personnel should be expanded on a
much larger scale.
The final report of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment on
during 1880 has been
turned in to the House clerk showing
it disburSed 1858 800, collected Sill ,38l
and borrowed $4,000 during the IL