Washington, Feb. 6.
"A spirited attack upon the Law Mnforeement Commission's report, recently submitted was made on the Boor of the Senate to-day by Behator Robert F. Wagner of New Work.
Dencuncing the Wickersham. plan Mor coping with violations of the national pro} tion law, Senator Wagner declared that to. transfer enforcement activities from the Mreasury to the Justice Depart. gent and to eliminate jury trial for alleged "dry law" violators wil pot end abuse existing at the Ipresent time, but rather the con-cited President] compared with the remedies now "Being proposed.
The people of the United States, according to the New York Senator consider the outstanding "dry abuse of the present time to consi of the slaying of citizens, bribery jand corruption of both people and The Law Enforcement Commission plan does not help to remedy this, he declared, but would have the people of the country "fritter away their rights to jury trial" in Jiquor cases.
Senator Wagner concluded, that up to the present, all proposals of the Administration have been a mere dodging of the important sue raised by the status of proibitidn in the United States to-day, Republican Party and Oblivion Feb. 7.
Representative James M. Beck of Pennsylvania, former __'solicitor-eneral' of the United States, de-fivered a speech in the House toiday'in the course of which he d flared that the Republican Party is Uestined to follow its Whig. predecesser into oblivion if to sell its soul to the drys? and thus become the Party of Prohibition."
Mr. Beek cited the fact that the Fogitive Slave Law was once a part of the Federal Constitution, the attempt to make the Northerners slave-catchers provoked such a revolt that Daniel Webster Aestroyed him se'? while honestly at-Aempting to save the Union by mak Sing that. section of the Constitution rare obligatory.
"The result," declared Mr. Beck conphatically, "is a sinister omen to the Republican Party, even in this day of ite great power.
who party. did not, emancipate the slave to put the white man in the chains of an intolerant policy."
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