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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question to be under consideration tonight is, "Resolved. That this house favors the Baumes Law". Harvard will uphold the negative side of the question and will be represented by L. E. Becker '32, R. B. Eckels '32, P. C. Reardon '32, and R. H. Simonds '32. There are to be three speeches, limited to ten minutes each with a ten minute rebuttal. A decision will be rendered by three members of the Exeter faculty acting in the capacity of judges...
...following article on the Jones Law was written for the Crimson by J. J. Burns, Assistant Professor of Law in the Harvard Law School...
...March 2, 1929 President Coolidge signed the Jones-Stalker Bill which authorized the imposition of a maximum penalty of $10,000 fine or five years imprisonment or both for violations of the National Prohibition Law. The purpose according to Senator Jones, was to combat large scale "bootlegging" operations. By a special provision "the courts are to discriminate between casual or slight violations and so called regular bootlegging or attempts to commercialize violations of law". This latter provision has no legal effect since it is but a pious exhortation to the judges to be nice to the amateur offender...
...most important result of this Jones Bill is that violations of the Prohibition law are now felonies and not misdemeanors. At Common law the division of crimes into Treason, Felonies and Misdemeanors was in a rough way a fairly sensible division. Felonies were grave crimes all named and defined that seriously threatened the social security and all felons were subject to the death penalty. Misdemeanors were crimes of a less serious nature and included all crimes not felonies or treason. But under the Federal law a crime is a felony or a misdemeanor according to the penalty attached there...
Whatever doubt there existed as to the power of Prohibition officials to arrest without a warrant prior to the Jones Bill, it is now clear that not only may officers arrest without a warrant one who violates the Prohibition Law but also a private person is privileged to effect such an arrest. Such is the magic of the term "felony". This situation offers excellent opportunities to fanatical "drys" to further the cause...