VOLSTEAD LAW

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 134, 22 February 1923, Page 7

VOLSTEAD LAW

NEW YORK ASKS FOR MODIFICATION MEXICO TO ESTABLISH A DRY ZONE By Telegraph—Press Association. —Copyright. (Rec. February 21, 10.10 p.m.) Washington, February 20. Several interesting things concerning prohibition occurred to-day. The New York State Legislature passed a resolution memorialising the United States Congress and asking for a modification of tho Volstead la.w, permitting beer and light wines. New York, with a tenth of the nation’s population; is the most influential State in the Union, and tho first to take such a. step, although it ratified tho eighteenth amendment. President Harding informed newspaper men that he believed it would require twenty years’ education, perhaps longer, before the people became adjusted to prohibition, and that the enforcement of the Volstead law showed progressive effectiveness. The Administration would take every! available step to enforce the prohibition statutes. Mr. Hughes has sent a letter to Mr Mellon stating that it would be inadvisable to publish the facts concerning the amount of liquor imported by the various embassies and legations at Washington, in accordance with the Congressional request, on the ground that it would be a violation of diplomatic immunity. Mexico announced that it would establish a 50-mile-wide dry zone on the Mexican side of the border of the United States in an effort to aid the American Government to enforce prohibition and prevent liquor smuggling—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.