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...Under the law the U. S. pays one-half of such cost, private contributors the other half. In his announcement of this first major acquisition of national park private land Secretary Wilbur made deep bows of gratitude to Mr. Rockefeller, to Michigan's Congressman Louis C. Cramton, author of the purchase provision in the Interior Department appropriation bill, and to the lumber company in Yosemite which had withheld cutting over its timber tract until the U. S. was ready...
...duty for the most part to prevent appropriations rather than provide them. Last week, wondering whom to put in Mr. Madden's committee chair, Republicans could think of no one possessing comparable knowledge and integrity. Choice seemed to lie between Indiana's Wood, Michigan's Cramton, Idaho's French...
...stood Michigan's Cramton to say: "It is interesting to me to see what the policy is to be of the wet block in the House as presented by its newly chosen leader, the gentleman from Maryland. The policy of our other friend from Maryland, John Philip Hill, was to destroy the Eighteenth Amendment by authorizing beer and wine, but it is apparent that the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Linthicum], the new leader, has on his banner, 'Hamstring enforcement...
...action on the Cramton Bill to set up the Prohibition Unit as an independent Bureau in the Treasury Department...
...Anti-Saloon League Proposal. The Executive Committee of the Anti-Saloon League, headed by Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Chicago and including Bishop James Cannon of Washington, D. C., and Wayne B. Wheeler, paid a business call on President Coolidge. They wanted the Cramton Bill made law. The Cramton Bill would set up the Prohibition Unit as a branch of the Treasury Department independent of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. This is in accordance with the announced belief of the League that Commissioner of Internal Revenue Blair has hampered the work of Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. Moreover, the bill would remove...