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...KENNETH MACKINTOSH...
...Commission's only blossom in the three subsequent days of its Washington meeting was dissension over the scope of its inquiry. One group of Commissioners wanted to go to what Commissioner Mackintosh called the "guts" of Prohibition? i. e., the enforceability of the 18th Amendment. Other commissioners wished to examine only the skin, study only enforcement procedure. When, after the first day's wrangle, Chairman Wickersham again received newsmen, his spirits seemed less buoyant. Guardedly he declared...
...guts" of Prohibition is one place to which potent Dry Senators and Congressmen do not want to see the Commission go. But Commissioner Mackintosh, a Dry himself, did not propose to allow his colleagues to weasel on "enforcement" and pass up the larger issue of the enforceability of the 18th Amendment. Drys last week cried out in sharp protest against any such thoroughgoing program of investigation as he advocated...
...Commission was about to convene (next week, in Washington) to draft a report which may well alter the position of President Hoover on the issue. After 1 6 months of study it had not yet deter mined how deeply into Prohibition to delve. Commissioner Mackintosh's strong language, his robust character, indicated that there would be serious internal dis turbances if the Commission tries to side step the "guts...
...largely on the strength of his agitation that Governor Coolidge was nominated for the Vice-Presidency. President Coolidge later rewarded his boomer with a nomination to the U. S. Circuit Court. More disturbances followed in the Senate, where the vengeful opposition of Senator Johnson, who had not forgiven Mackintosh's 1920 desertion, was sufficient to keep Nominee Mackintosh off the Federal bench. He was serving as Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court when President Hoover appointed him to the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement...