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...offering a resolution for the outright repeal of the 18th Amendment, admitted that it had no chance of passage. Senate Borah urged that the resolution be brought to a vote "to make it clear that this amendment is here to stay." The author of the amendment, Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, read a carefully prepared rhetorical speech in praise of its "triumphant tread" to an almost empty Senate chamber. South Carolina's Senator Blease predicted full Dry enforcement "if we had a first class deputy sheriff, about three constables and a good federal judge in every township...
...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 off his bill to make liquor-buyers as culpable as bootleggers. Senator Harris prepared to renew his demand to double enforcement appropriations, bringing them up to 30 millions per year. Dry Senator Norris of Nebraska entered the general excitement by joining Senator Brookhart...
Last week, however, Senator Sheppard changed part of his mind. He still had no thought of trying to legislate against the use of liquor. But he did want to amend the Volstead Act to make the buyer of liquor equally guilty with the seller...
Growth in favorable sentiment toward Prohibition, said Senator Sheppard, had made possible this extension of the Volstead Act. Furthermore, the Senator was annoyed by last fortnight's decision in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia, clearly exculpating a purchaser of liquor from any guilt in the transportation of what he had bought (TIME, Oct. 14). Senator Sheppard therefore offered to the Senate an amendment adding purchase to manufacture, transportation, possession, sale and other activities forbidden under the Volstead...
...Sheppard Amendment reached no vote, became no law. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee, appeared unlikely to reappear during the present Congressional session. But it precipitated a storm of dispute among Drys as well as Wets. The Wets, of course, flayed the idea as a further encroachment on Liberty, a further botching of a bad law. They said it would make millions of additional criminals, fill jails beyond the bursting point. Drys were divided in their opinion. Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Senator Watson of Indiana were favorable. Such potent Drys as Idaho's Borah and Nebraska...