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...present personnel," Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, had not had a good night's sleep for a week before the Borah blast. It was not the problems of Prohibition that kept him awake, however, but rough seas in the Bahamas whither he had cruised aboard the yacht Vagabondia. Putting in to San Juan, Porto Rico, Secretary Mellon got some rest at a hotel...
...absence defense of Prohibition, as is, fell upon Attorney-General Mitchell who retorted to Senator Borah...
President Hoover called in Senators Harris and Borah, soothed them with kind words. Chairman George Woodward Wickersham announced that his commission's report on "Law Enforcement" was ready. Undersecretary of the Treasury Mills plotted out a scheme of enforcement improvements whereby the coast guard and the border patrol would be unified, the number of ports of entry along the border reduced. From the White House emanated intimations of more shakeups, further reorganizations, in the enforcement service; of the President's putting U. S. district attorneys on their mettle. Senator Sheppard of Texas, author of the 18th Amendment, dusted...
Construing this as an attack on the President, the latter's good friend, Senator Jones of Washington, author of the famed Five & Ten Law, announced: "The President believes in Prohibition as sincerely as I do. . . . The President is doing his best." Which prompted Senator Borah to thunder again. Said he: "Washing your hands with sightless soap in the presence of the President will not bring effective service...
...Senator Borah also added: "The permit system itself is a scandal. . . . Practically open saloons are running in the jurisdiction of district attorney after district attorney. . . . I don't mean simply New York or Chicago; I mean a condition which prevails throughout the country...