PROHIBITION LAW

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 93, 14 January 1929, Page 3

PROHIBITION LAW

INVESTIGATION INTO ENFORCEMENT. TO BE MADE BY MR. HOOVER t New York, January 10. The “New York World’s” Washington correspondent states that .an . investigation throughout the nation into prohibition enforcement and the effect of the eighteenth amendment of the Volstead Act, with their relation to crime, will be made by Mr. Hoover, the President-elect, is indicated here to-day. Mr. Hoover does not want a biased report. Therefore he prefers to name his own investigators to find the facts. Sir. Hoover’s friends assert that he has told members of Congress that he has a definite plan to carry out, and has promised to name a commission to study the question in a thorough, careful, business-like manner. INCREASED VOTE FOR ENFORCEMENT (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) Washington, January 11. The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved an increase of 25.000,000 dollars in the fund for prohibition enforcement, the increase to become immediately available. The Prohibition Bureau Act must be approved by the House and Senate Committee. They have asked the bureau for a statement showing how the increase will be spent. ILLICIT LIQUOR FROM CANADA (Australian Press Association.) Ottawa, January 10. ' The United States to-day failed to obtain the consent of the Canadian Government to a treaty for drastic efforts to suppress the annual hundred-million-dollar illicit liquor shipment from the Dominion. A conference between American and Canadian officials' here over a period of several days ended without result. The United States wanted Canada to agree to refuse to issue papers to vessels clearing for United States ports with cargoes of liquor. The American delegates departed feeling that Canadian opinion is that America must make more strenuous effort to enforce its own laws to halt smuggling before coming for help to a neighbouring country.