LIQUOR LAWS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18672, 22 April 1926, Page 9

LIQUOR LAWS.

PROHIBITION'S CLAIMS. U.S. SENATE ENQUIRY. (»T CA3LX— PEIBB ABBOOATIO*—COPIBIGHT.) (AUSTEALIAir ASD 1.2 CABLI ASSOOATIOH.) WASHINGTON, April 20. Bishop McDowell, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, testified before the Senate Committee enquiring into Prohibition. He said that the proposition to amend the existing law was made on behalf of bootleggers, liquor dealers, and liquor consumers, who had steadily broken the laws established by a deliberate process. Dr. Wilson, a member of the Methodist Board of Temperance, declared that there was a conspiracy to import aliens into the United States to violate the liquor laws. He said that between 50 and S3 per cent, of the violators were aliens. Dr. Barton, of the Southern Baptist Convention, denied that Prohibition waß ruining the youth of the nation. He said: "My observation convinced me that it was not so much the juvenile flapper as the grown-up flapper who needs attention." The progress of the enquiry shows that the "Drys" are concentrating against New York, where the State Legislature lias now passed a Bill authorising a referendum. „___ , I