May 27, President Hoover lis signed the Williamson Bill, whi hich provides for transfer of pro from the jurisdic sury Department to that of the Department of Justice.
Such a move was advocated by the Wickersham Law Enforcement) Commission and supported by the President, the Secretary of the Treasury and other high officials.
It has been considered the one recommendation of the Wickersham Commission which was practically' certain of enactment by the present session of Congress Only one-half of one per cent. of the activities of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals have to do with. legislative matters, Mr. E. Deets: Pickett, research secretary of the: board, "told the Senate Lobbyist Committee to-day.
He revealed files "of the" board's magazine with the issues for August and October of 1928 missing. These numbers were publ daring the hheat of the national pol paign and it was intimal contained important political matter.
Pickett ssid that several papers were mi files as well. jing from the board's He was not able to Congressional "drys" are divided with reference to the proposal to enact a law making buyers of illicit liquor equally guilty with the sellers, following yesterday's Supreme!
Court decision that present laws do not so provide, Some of the. prohibition supporters fear that to pass such a law would result in complete breakdown of the enforcement machinery, to the large number of people it would throw into the criminal category, but others believe it only just and logical.
Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, one of the most pugnacious of the "dry" forces, declared to-day that, he was determined to press a bill providing equal guilt for buyer and seller. Observers believed such a move might provide one more strong. cause for rendering prohibition the outstanding political issue of the approaching elections,—United
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