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What took place last week on the House floor was highly technical. Behind the technicalities was a defeat for the Anti-Saloon League that must have made Wayne B. Wheeler revolve in his Ohio grave. Over the most potent prohibiting force in the U. S., the Republican House machine rolled to the tune of 240 to 141, leaving the League, for the first time since the 18th Amendment, flat and broken by the legislative wayside...
...leaders, though, were behind the $24,000,000. Samuel Edgar Nicholson, associate New York Anti-Saloon League Superintendent, protested the position taken by the national League. To Dr. McBride he wrote: "I hope that the League will find a way to get out of this situation with as little harm as possible and then make sure that we do not get caught in such a jam again...
Recriminations. The House's debate was fanged with many a poisonous word, mostly spewed at the Anti-Saloon League and its attempt to dominate the House by a circular letter from Dr. McBride. Dr. McBride sat in the visitors' gallery, facing the Speaker and behind the festooned clock, through which for years Wayne B. Wheeler used to peek out as his minions did his will on the floor below...
...McBride ears came this from New York's rambunctious Black: "What the Anti-Saloon League lost in brains when Wheeler died, it more than gained in impertinence under McBride...
Significance. The House showed a strong and unprecedented inclination to resist the dictates of the Anti-Saloon League on prohibition legislation. Beneath the parliamentary complications of the issue and the veneer of fiscal concern about the Budget system seemed to lie a tendency, even among ardent drys, to follow the commands of the new Administration and pursue moderate, middle-of-the-road enforcement?in other words, to continue the farce with politic solemnity and let Mr. Hoover proceed "constructively" with the "experiment . . . noble in motive...