PROHIBITION.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18673, 23 April 1926, Page 9

PROHIBITION.

RS. SENATE ENQCIRY. ENFORCEMENT POSSIBLE. (Ausntuux ura ».e cuu unocutunu WASHINGTON, April 21. Disputes regarding procedure marked , the opening of the Senate enquiry today, the "drys" contending that "wet" ■ Sonator-Iteed had taken up three hour* of their allotted time in cross-exatnin-ing witnesses. They therefore demanded the extra period. The decision will bo announced later. Mr Striver, representing New York farmers, testified that he was opposed to modification, and claimed that aliens composed 23 per cent, of New York** prison population, and 36 per cent, of those in the insane asylums. Governor Pinchob wrote * letter, which was inserted in tho record*, claiming that Pennsylvania, which waa the "wettest" State in the Union in 1923, has now enforced Prohibition, and suppressed bootlegging. He asserted that either the State or Federal Government was capable of enforcing Prohibition anywhere. Mr Charles Stelrle, a member of «h 4 Machinists' Union, declared that influence had been exerted upon the Lftboac loaders to prevent them starting an organised movement in favour of Prohibition. He also asserted that the lata Mr Samuel Gompers had not permitted a Prohibition discussion at ootavantkxna because he feared the splitting of tho Labour movement. ' 'I RUM-RUNNERS SENTENCED. 4 (trr cAßtt-pttw issftMMnw-ccmiM'if (BBom's fitmii) VANCOUVER, April 3L Captain Robert Pamphlet, master o| the Canadian schooner PMOawha, «e» ed off the coast of Washington State, in February, 1931, as a nun-Tanner, was sentenced to-day it Portland, Oregon, to two years' ittprfsMlnslßt, and ordered to pay a fine of 6000 dolors. Other members of the crew recetrad lighter sentences. The seicure Of hhe Pescawha foUojrad the rescue by the Oanaolan* of the ship- . wrecked Crew of a United States vessel, defendants declaring that they were drawn inside the twelve-mile limit by the necessity of rescue wtark. At the trial the Judge ruled tins dofence oat .holding that the defendant* were engaged in a conspiracy to viola!* the liquor law*. EPFBOnVBNESS OF TWUTUSB, . (avstsauax **t> xx. ciaus tmxastux^ Apifl «. The effectiveness of the treaties with Great Britain and other countries permitting, tho United States to Betas rum-runners at an? point within a* hour's sailing distance of the shore was greatly limited to-day by t> decision of, the United States Circuit Court of Appeal. The Court set forth.that the treaty did not make lawM any extension of American tewitoriiil jdrisdio-, tion. v ■ . * The Court also dismissed the atiantq proceedings brought by the Governfflen* against British and Norwegian vessels, , —sss-aHasH-=ata»' -