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Having finished shadowboxing, the House Judiciary Committee last week was confronted with a tangible, important Prohibition problem. For weeks its members have been struggling with the legislative recommendations of the Wickersham Commission (TIME, Jan. 20). Particularly hard to deal with was the plan to empower U. S. commissioners to try minor Prohibition violations, to relieve congested district courts. To do this it was first necessary to define "minor and casual" offenses and remove them from the severe penalties of the Jones ("Five...
Raymond Pitcairn, director of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., insisted that "no Wickersham commission is needed to investigate the rotten failure of Prohibition." Said he: "The people know it. The President and his Cabinet know it. Mr. Hughes knows it. Congress knows it. The young people know it best of all. But the prohibitionists don't know it. The Bellevue-Stratford and. Ritz-Carlton in Philadelphia station these prohibitionists near the serving pantries of their hotel. They see large glasses of orange juice and bottles of White Rock and club soda going to many rooms on every floor. These good...
Died. Edwin Prescott Grosvenor, 54, Manhattan lawyer (Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft), cousin of William Howard Taft; in Manhattan; of pneumonia...
...legislative side was not. Congress had given him only one measure, a Farm Relief Act. In the Senate the tariff blocked all other legislation (see p. 17). Important appropriation bills were stacking up. Both Wets and Drys in Congress were dissatisfied with his handling of Prohibition through the Wickersham Commission, editors began to write leaders about his loss of popularity...
Meanwhile the Wickersham Commission's recommendations were well mired in Congress. Predictions are freely heard that they will remain in the mire throughout this session. A House Judiciary sub-committee last week openly despaired of agreement on the proposal for juryless liquor trials. Legislation to transfer Pro hibition enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice is near the bottom of the Senate's calendar where it is likely to remain...