Evening star., 1933-12-03
DRY STATES RAISE
REPEAL PROBLEMS
Codes, Marketing Pacts and
Low Taxes Call for
Solutions.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Legalized liquor will return Tuesday.
but 1t Will be months-perhapS years
before the government and the States
decide the question growing out Of pro-
hibitions ulxpectedly sudden death.
The Webb-Kenyon act of 1913, which
passing Of the Voistead act, puts on
Uncle Sam the responsibility OF protect
ing dry States from liquor shipments.
Even more pressing from the Federal
standpoint is the administration of the
codes and marketing agreements written
to enable supervision at the source OF
the business.
mterlaced with this is the proper
Federal tax to yield substantial revenue
to a Treasury, which needs it badly
and at the same time keeps the levies
low enough to discourage the home
manufacture of gin and the Illicit dis
tilling OF corn and rye.
A Federal Alcohol Control Admins
tration, headed by Joseph H. Choate,
Jr., New York attorney, was set UP to
function until Congress passes legisla-
ton for control, and the regulations
already drawn may form the basis for
the laws to come.
Congress, however, will be concerned
with one important matter over which
the control administration has no juris-
diction-taxes
S1.10 Present Tax.
The Federal tax on whisky until
changes by Congress will be s1.1O a
lO0-proof gallon with q IS tax on i'm
ported spirits.
The Senate Finance Committee and
the House Ways and Means Committee
Will begin a joint study of taxation De-
cember IL. Many OF the members are
reported to favor a s22O levy on whisky
and other distilled spirits
A part OF the Presidents liquor pro-
gram includes levies low enough to en-
courage the consumption of beer and
wines.
Representatives CT thl distillers have
reported they have on hand about A.
100000 gallons of aged domestic whisky
Through rectification and blending this
could be multiplied foui or five times.
The whisky figure is exclusive of
224,72 gallons of rum, 305.O61 Of gin,
1883 of brandy. 22,211,164 of grain
a!cohol and around 100000 gallons
Of wine
The Government already has taken
steps 70 license imports of about 600
600 gallons up to February l.
After that import quotas will be as
signed to the various countries on the
basis OF concessions they make for the
admittance of American agricultural
products
In % States the sale of liquor will
be legal after prohibition is repealed or
within a brief period.
The rules laid down within the States
vary widely. but in most the trend is
toward the sale of liquor in unbroken
packages unless it is for consumption
with food on premises where sold.
The States where liquor may be sold
are Arizona, California. Colorado, Con-
necticIt, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana
Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan
Missouri, Montana, Nevada. New York
New Jersey. New Mexico Ohio. Oregon,
pennsylvania, Rhode Island. South
Carolina. Washington and Wisconsin
South Carolina. while not permitting
direct sale in the State, allows imports
from other States.
Ratification of repeal Tuesday by
Ohio. Utah and Pennsylvania will mark
the END Of nationally and theoret-
lcaily dry era of l3 years IL months
and II days. although the saloons were
actually closed by wartime prohibition
on July l, 1919.