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...when it is decided to alter Prohibition, let the word "regulate" be inserted in. the 18th Amendment, so that Congress can from time to time alter Prohibition to fit changing conditions. Having voiced that suggestion, and in the absence of a positive agreement having (all except Commissioner Lemann) signed their negative list of "Conclusions & Recommendations," the Commissioners sought to preserve their self-respect by appending to the joint Report their separate, personal opinions and convictions...
...eleven Commissioners, , a majority of one, called for a Change. They were: Henry Watkins Anderson of Virginia, Ada Louise Comstock of Massachusetts, Newton Diehl Baker of Ohio, Montefiore Mordecai Lemann of Louisiana, Frank Joseph Loesch of Illinois, Roscoe Pound of Massachusetts...
...Modificationists?Commissioners Lemann & Baker?were for outright repeal...
...with Congress the power to (1) continue the present system of national prohibition, or (2) to remit the matter in whole or in part to the States, or (3) "to adopt any system of effective control." The only consistent members of the commission appear to be the wet Mr. Lemann, who refuses to sign, and Chairman Wickersham, who is a thorough-going dry and so writes in his individual report. Of the four remaining members, all would favor the revised Amendment after further trial of enforcement. In other words, a wet commission by some strange twist of mind and mathematics...
...Monte M. Lemann, President of the Louisiana Bar Association...