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...pleasure last week for Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon to drive to the Capitol and recommend, before the House Committee on Executive Expenditures, the transfer of Prohibition enforcement from his department to the Department of Justice. What was painful to him was not the prospect of parting with Prohibition-he had had nine years of it-but the instinctive discomfort of a shy man appearing before a Congressional committee on a controversial question...
Thirty minutes later as he drove down Capitol Hill he was feeling very much better because he had not only talked transfer effectively but, more important, had successfully withstood the hectoring of Wets who sought to evoke his personal opinion on Prohibition...
Carefully Mr. Mellon sat down in the witness chair, at his elbow Assistant Secretary Lowman, behind him Prohibition Commissioner James Maurice Doran. Before the Committee was the enforcement transfer bill written by Dry Representative William Williamson of Rapid City, S. Dak. (Coolidge 1927 summer resort), homesteader, rural editor, lawyer, title abstractor. Major issue of the transfer is: where to put industrial alcohol control? The Williamson bill weasles this question, provides for joint control by the Treasury and Justice Departments...
Other Objections. Against the transfer legislation, to which there was the least general objection, Drys raised a strong complaint: they did not want the management of industrial alcohol left with the Treasury, as the Williamson bill and the Wickersham report called for. They felt that as a source of 'legger leakage this, too, should be under the Department of Justice. Industrialists legitimately using alcohol threaten a revolt if their raw material is taken from the Treasury. An ingenious compromise has been devised to hold both in line: the Secretary of the Treasury could issue industrial alcohol permits only after...
...Immigrant Home from his Methodist brethren for the length of its Red occupancy. Just as their fathers had rushed to look at Mr. Barnum's embalmed whale and Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, Boston reporters, vaguely aware of the importance of this Soviet-U. S. ship transfer, hurried down to peer at 60 genuine Russian communists. Those who expected to find bearded Moujiks in Russian blouses and felt boots were thoroughly disappointed...