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Compromise. Apparently the ten Commissioners under Chairman George Woodward Wickersham, wrestling with their problem at their offices in Washington's Tower Building, had at last decided they could come nowhere near unanimity on any fundamental "Conclusion" or "Recommendation." except one. That one was: IF & when it is decided to alter...
Commissioner Lemann poked his finger squarely through the biggest hole in the Commission's suggested method for revising the 18th Amendment. To let Congress "regulate" liquor from time to time would, said he, throw the liquor question into national politics as never before.
About the same time the St. Louis Star sued for admission to the A. P., which had made an exclusive contract with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In that case the A. P. won on the decision: "Everyone is at liberty to gather news; and the fact that one has...
Agreed was the Commission that any revision of the 18th Amendment should read: The Congress shall have power to regulate or to prohibit the manufacture, traffic in or transportation of intoxicating liquors. The ''regulate" would open the way for a change.
After more than a year of study the Wickersham Committee has arrived at some conservative but constructive conclusions. It agrees that the eighteenth amendment should not be repealed, that light wines and beer should not he allowed, and that the present enforcement is inadequate. But there is division of opinion...