PROHIBITION.

Grey River Argus, 17 June 1926, Page 5

PROHIBITION.

U.S.A. AGITATION Reaches Deadlock. (Received June. 16 at 8.20 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 15. As tlie day for the adjournment of Congress approaches, there is an indication that the Leader is opposed to further agitation on the prohibition question, and there is little prospect that either the Dry or the Wet legislative programme will receive action this session. The Senate Judiciary Commission has already reported adversely upon all the measures proposing a modification of the Volstead Law, or a change in the Eighteenth Amendment, or proposing a national referendum on the prohibition question, there being six such measures. Senator Edge declared: “We are more than gratified with the progress made. The country ru-v knows the facts, and in time it will act accordingly.” Representative Crampton, the Dry leader in the House of Representatives, admitted that no useful purpose would be served for the House to pass dry measures, since there was little pros pect of their passage through the Senate. A last-minute effort may be made to pass a measure for the re-organisation of the Prohibition enforcement of the Government, but this is unlikely. Other measures, numbering five, pro viding for a prohibition border patrol, heavier penalties for violations, etc. will probably have to wait till later sessions.