Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1926, Page 17

THE DINNER FOR MR. FREE. Californians to Honor Retiring BOTH SIDES EAGER A I ee, retiring president of | Hotel, Mac- | retfir) the society, at the Hamilton Confidence Features Start of | jaturdas, Avril 17. - James 1. Senale Hearing to Test | Hoover will be toastmaster. Prohibition. am has heen ar of musical num te and several Ashion ix chair- BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Railroad Company Sued. The Richmond, Fredericksburg and omac A centy prohibition—is about te in the arena <enate two Ve . i of Quantic District Su- | ourt. Gratz says he sustainec serious and pery injury in wreck on the line of the company i Hill, Va., October i6 last. e esented by Attornevs Wilton J Rudoiph H. Yeatman and| Canfield. fary committee, tent that the a thorouzh of the preme ent entive | {reek the wet ed by Demoerat, Mary nator kdg. Republican oy We believe that will unquestionably re unenforceability” of the | modification lines,” he replied. ind will pave the way | Association Against the Prohibith of the whole driy Amendment has prepared 2 al lines The dry de- |iestimony, which will turn’a glari mainly in the hands of | searchlight on liquor conditions, 1 e of America. | leading to the conclusive. point that 1. Wayne law not only is unpopular and is Prohibitionists violated wholesale, hut that onslaught with proposition it eannot convinced that We expect to show bevond | voll in vain doubt that prohibi- | of Volsteadism. Kisting conditions, is Temned ¢ main not | . but a mod P forced by | I | | ‘ ‘ ‘ i | l ‘ ‘ public sentiment oon reral char nding v are waves will Gibraltar with Wheeler view tieal out al 1 the against (he Wets En; e Counsel. iheommittee before contend for Mon Re. e which wets and drys will the fortnight beginning day consists of case in favor of the ehec system.’ publican Colorado. That plan tnvolves not the repeal of ators Goff (West Virgi # the enth Amendment, but only reld (Oklahoma), Rep the amendment of ft. It should satisfy Senators Reed (Missou tminded dry, tor the ). Demoerats ! hee system” will allow any local dis Jand will open proc Tl rict—in - our case sovereign These proceedings, Which| s 16 to remain dry if it will evoke an enormous volume of 1| eq oo timony, will be conducted by the As-| NG 0 onee of Washington, an goefation Against the Prohibition |, oo, 5 romising dry. bas no fear that | Amendment, with its inititant 1 the senatorial hearings on prohibition Capt. William H. S..yion, as will zet the wets anywhere at all.” | mander-in-chief fon has | go”caid % e he Mo Law “Here to Stay.” econduct the hearings | “T'he wel cause will receive some Shey wers being held in' 2 Valuable advertising, especially in the hickly populated Eastern centers ator Bruce's opening statement | where sal sentiment is probably e divided into two paris. | very largely in favor of light wines be devoled to advocacy The hearings doubtless will rage many wet sympa thizers to think that the moist millen ust over the 1 do » (hat view prohi here to stay Just as I belleve that if such a thing as ut referendum the issue 1% Backs Quebec Sy ‘Personally, 1 hope ke a strong | any bone will v jor One part will his prof eighteenth t contemplates the introductio; ium s ec system,” whereby ne U wouid regulat ating ual States the right local option laws. to say wnether or| were possible, . not they wanted liquor under any cir- | the vast maj the American sale of | | | cumstanc }!Il‘ulllv would vete not only to retain { give ind intox clear « b0 Mty the lawWs, but to make them stronger = than they already are The other part of the Bruce wet o 4 argument will consist of a compre ongrsss, aitecall, is;a pretty sato hensive allegation that prohibition cannot be enforced in the United | States: that it h: created \\uiw‘ spread and corruption; that it has broken down all along the line. fiom hoth a legal and a n standpoint, and that there is a na- tion-wide de for modification of the exis In: suppor plea for the barometer of public feeling. thirds of the present Congre: withstanding the private habits of some individual members, { are “politically dry,” that is to say, | their votes would be cast without hes: | itation in favor of retaining the Eight { eenth Amendment and the Volstead | act. They would vote that way be cause they know that their constitu ents would want them to do so. If country wants to undo prohibi tion. it can be accomplished in only and also to introduce American weRy. bl ey e i Wiy el i were put on the st | sional hearings neither | mine nor destroy those laws,” | Zht 1926 wo- not drinking Senator Bruee's | ‘Quebec system.” it is proposed to bring Canadian wit from Montreal and Winni- | | the nesses e, witnesses who will testify { the “Quebec system or had opportunity the prohibition hattle nators who will it. One, will he sefore stated the wet prot * Wesley ; = 3 1 ol Washington, who is one | '\ Weur Depts. of Dey principal pillars of the dry | @ LI the United States Congress, does not now plan to take an ac iive part in the senatorial hearings t he will observe them very re- | ligiously from the side lines and| will wade into the fray if and when necess principal other, = public of the cause ir Wide Scope Is Seen. “Bevond the shadow said Senator Bruce. “we are on the |® z | threshold of a prohibition agitation | s 75t ToNew York: eangressinnal elections and into the presidentlal campaign of 1928, Tt i | Till May 29 ‘ Via Valley Forge cann he denied b one with an acer knowledge of developments e at this m in the Busses start from |1th St. side of Annapolis Hotel, 11th and H Sts. N.W., at 8:30 of a doubt,” ment most pre 1 move. he adop nament. 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