A bill has again been introduced into the>House of Representatives which seeks to extend the enforcement of the Volstead Act to Americans in China and other U. 8. A. consular districts where treaties do not prevent. Such a bill has beea introduced several times before but has never yet been passed. When the Volstead Act itself was passed in 1919, an amendment which would make it effective in China and in the Philippine Islands, was discussed. It was discarded by the Committee of the Judiciary, however, for several reasons among them being the difficulty attending the enforcement of such a ruling and the fact that it was thought that, the Philippine Legis! would itself pass a prohibition amendment. The Hawaiian Island: passed by local option a _prohibition measure several years before the Volstead Act was passed.
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