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Chairman Madden of the Appropriations Committee: ". . . The amendment offered by the gentleman from Maryland is a subterfuge. Why does he not move to repeal the Volstead Act, if he is in earnest? . . . The law is here and here it will remain. The law will be enforced, irrespective of what Maryland may think about it. ... I am a Wet-I would probably vote for a legitimate motion to repeal, but never ... for any such subterfuge as he now proposes...
...favor the repeal of the Volstead Act, nor do I favor repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. I believe the Eighteenth Amendment is here to stay and that citizens and officials would better put in their time considering how they may observe the laws of their country and respect its Constitution rather than to give their efforts to plans whereby the law may be evaded and the Constitution broken down...
...believe in meeting the issue squarely and am heartily in favor of faithfully enforcing all our laws, and I am opposed to the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment or the Volstead...
...second alteration, amounting to $33,000,000, was the work of Michigan Republicans led by James Campbell McLaughlin. The Ways & Means Committee had recommended reducing from 3% to 1½% the tax on factory sales of Michigan's chief product, automobiles. The Michiganders asked for entire repeal. Farmers'-Friends joined the Michiganders. Democrats swelled this opposition to a 245-to-151 final vote. These changes having been made, Chairman Green of the Ways & Means Committee conferred anxiously with his Republican colleagues at the majority-party floor desk. They asked to have the Revenue Act sent back...
Desires: To see if the U. S. feels about Prohibition as it felt last decade. If feeling has changed, to repeal the 18th Amendment and deal with "the liquor question," which the A. A. P. A. admits exists, in some other way, perhaps by the "Quebec Plan" (government dispensaries...