Evening star., 1932-04-21
LAW M0D|F F|CAT|ON
FOUGHT BY DRyS At
SENATE GROUP QUIZ
DENY Contention 1t Would
Provide More Jobs and
Revenue.
SESSION IS ATTENDED
BY BISHOP CANNON
D. Leigh Colvin SCOTS at Claim
Change in Act Would Bring
Billion in Taxes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Before a Senate Judiciary subcom-
mittee. prohibitionists today resumed
their opposition to proposed legisla-
ton for repeating or me difying the dry
laws
D. Leigh Colvin of New York. whose
wife is president of the New York
State Women's Christian Temperance
Union. attacked the contention of anti
prohibitionists that !egalized liquor
should be restored to provide Federal
revenue and increase employment
Colvin said he is a vice chairman of
"the National Conference of Organiza-
tions Supporting the Eighteenth
Amendment
Bishop James Cannon. jr., of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South was
present The audience was consider
ably smaller than yesterday.
Denies Wet Claims.
TITS time that we call a halt to the
boasted bribe of 81 900 10000 to pur-
chase the conscience of the American
people" Colvin said. He asserted wet
propaganda" that liquor would bring
$1,000, 100000 a year in taxes is not
borne out by the amount of revenue
paid in pre-prohibition years.
Edward T. Lee, dean of the John
Marshall Law School, Chicago, then
spoke against any change in the dry
laws. He said he represented no pro-
hibition organization.
Saying that in the pre- prohibition
days "an inebriated Senator" was
'forcibly removed by the sergeant at
arms and there was sale and abuse of
iff in hn 70 an
remarked:
Il take it that no intoxicating bever-
ages are now sold in the Capitol Build
ing"
Gone also, understand, is the hi
larity of New Year day celebrations, "
he said.
Lee recalled drinking conditions at
Harvard, which he attended, and also
at Yale, in his youth.
Il have no doubt" he said, that
Yale is still hearty and hale, but if the
boys are still drinking its health as
regularly today, 1 fear they must be
water-logged."
Sees Improvement.
Contending conditions have greatly
improved since prohibition, Lee cited
lis home city of Chicago among others.
The Loop" he said, lis changed
Loop.
Il assert that so far as peace and
quiet are concerned, Gray might have
written his Elegy in a Country Church
Yard there, as in the Somber surround
ings he selected. Newspaper men pro-
nounce it a dead spot for news.
"Of course, If one takes the trouble
he can find a speakeasy, and if he has
a card of introduction, can get drink
of something. In the old days the
trouble was to get by the saloons"
He said that if the city had "the
numerous saloons of the past" it would
be "less safe than it is at present"
Recalling prohibition conventions
of the American Bar Association, Lee
said today all this is changed. The
annual meetings are not drink tests.
Lee made a similar comparison be-
tween Harvard class days and COM
mencementS of the present and those
before prohibition.
Il have been offered liquor" he said
"in the home of a former Ambassador
of the United States, a former presi'
dent of the American Bar Association
and OF multimillionaire, perhaps now
a former multimillionaire, and 1 coulc
not help thinking what must be tht
effect Of their examples upon thel
servants"
Says Issue Will Fade.
There is more Sound than substance
in the renewed attack upon thl'
amendment and law" Lee said. An
other dry Congress and it will become
fading issue"
obviously, Congress may, If 1t see'
fit, modify the Volstead act within
narrow limit" he said, adding that this
would not satisfy the liquor interests
who are back of this legislation"
To refute the contention that the
Lindbergh kidnapping case has a con,
J nection with prohibition, Lee citeo
notorious kidnapings of other days.