Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1929, Page 37

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. FRIDAY, MARCH 22. 1929. candidates to urge modification of the |ened by the agitation produced by the Eparlmount issue and that in those dis- Volstead act itself, contending that|Jones law, and that the imprisonment | tricts which have been in the habit of JNES LAW BAK 1BH ANENONENT New Measure Makes Rum Violator Breaker of the Constitution. In this, the last of a series of four chés on_prohibition enforce- ment and the Jones law, David Law- rence describes the purposes back of the new statute and how for the first time the language of the eighteenth amendment has been translated into w. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Althought the eighteenth amendment thas been a part of the Constitution for nearly a decade, the actual language of that amendment had never been trans- lated into Federal law until the Jones amendment to the Volstead act was passed by the last Congress Every part of the Constitution requires an act of Congress to put it into force, snd the Volstead act was intended to execute the eighteenth amendment: yet. while the Volstead act covered a great deal of ground and defined alcoholic beverages, there was no provision in which_ the language of the eighteenth amendment itself was included. Many constitutional lawyers have criticized the | eighteenth amendment on the ground | that it was a plece of legislation itself. | and contended that the framers should have confined themselves to a grant of | power to Congress. The Jones law re- | peats almost exactly the language of the eighteenth amendment, and by prohibit- | ing the manufacture, sale, transporta- | tion, distribution, importation or ex- ortation of alcoholic beverages it makes he violator of the Jones law directly the breaker of the Constitution of the United States itself. The tactical value of the Jones law has generally been overlooked. as pub- lic attention has been focused on the fact that now for the first time jail sentences of from one to five vears may be imposed on those who violate the prohibition laws. Up to now there has been agitation in some States for the modification of the Volstead act. while dry leaders have argued that to be consistent _those who are wet should really declare for the repeal of the |} eighteenth amendment itself. With the exception of the definition in the Vol- stead act to the effect that beverages of not more than one-half of 1 per cent alcoholic content may be manufactured and sold. the Volstead act itself could be repealed, and if the Jones law were | [f retained, the enforcement of prohibition | would still be possible on an extensive £cale. Provided No Penalties. ‘The various States of the Union, how- ever, may be glow to add the counter- part of the Jones law to their own statutes. Nearly all of them patterned their State enforcement acts after the Volstead law. The eighteenth amend- ment, of course, stated what was pro- hibited, but provided no penalties. The Jones v, at last, carries out the spirit and intent of the eighteenth amend- ment to the Constitution. It ties the violators of the law up direcly to an attack on the Constitution; and if by chance a Federal judge may some day declare that the purchase of liquor is | il part of the sale, the whole transaction may be construed as coming within the Jones law. It is too early to foresee the effect of rigid enforcement, but there is no | || doubt that the agitation of the last few Congress could, if it chose, define alco- holic beverages with a larger content of alcohol. The Supreme Court of the United States has said that one-half of 1 per cent was within the meaning of the amendment and that Congress was within its rights in making that defi- nition, but there is no way of knowing what the Supreme Court would say if Congress undertook to raise the alco- holic content to anything like the pro- portions desired by those who want a return to pre-war beer or wines. Seek Amendment Change. ‘The drys have contended that the logical antithesis of their position is to be found in the declaration by former Senator Wadsworth of New York, who offered a substitute for the eighteenth amendment, whereby the liquor traffic would be controlled. In other words, they hold that the question goes prop- erly to a change in the eighteenth amendment itself, and not to a change in the Volstead act or the Jones law, which undertake to enforce the eight- eenth amendment. There are wets who look with content on the present situation, because they of casual offenders will provoke murh‘ resentment. The prohibition issue in the last campaign was confused by the presence of other issues and by the usual party traditions. Many Republicans have written to | Washington stating emphatically that | their votes for Hoover should not be | construed as an indorsement of his views on the eighteenth amendment. In a congressional election, the pa in power usually suffers some loss and if the prohibition issue should embraced by Democratic candidates in some of the Northern States there may be_some changes in the next Congress. The real contest, however, will come in the primaries, because there are Re- publican members of Congress who are wet and who will have opposition from {drys. The fact that both parties have | wets and drys in their own ranks and | that the last campaign has not clearly | classified the wets and drys as in op- | posite parties, will make difficult the | ascertainment of what public sentiment really desires in the way of change, if anything. 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