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Show VOLSTEAD BILL IS " 3EF0RE CONGRESS BOOTLEGGER8 SHOULD GO SAYS MAKER OF EXTRACT ANDIED- ICINE CONTAINING KICK But Little Opposition Shown to Manu. facturlng Beer. Makers of Medicines Medi-cines Floht Hard To Protect Their Wares Washington Tho extremes to which some men go to satisfy the craving for strong drink since- tho country went dry allocked life house Judiciary committee com-mittee Monday at a hearing on the Volstead bllll bill make tho prohibition enforcement law more drastic. Representatives or manufactures of flavoring extracts, patent medicine, added restrictions, which they claimed nnd perfumes, In protesting against would Interfere seriously with their huslness, were outspoken In opposition to medical beer and the sale of con-butcoctlons con-butcoctlons masquerading as medicine but actualy used ns boveruges. The story or the man who became drunk nfter drinking hair tonic, Jamaica ginger gin-ger and similar things crept In continually. con-tinually. A list of mora than 100 products, branded as "booze tuodlclnc," some old bottles that had their place ou the shelves of country drug stores for more than half a century wero paraded par-aded In full view of tho committee and denounced by spokesmen for propriety prop-riety medicine associations, who declared de-clared they had begun medicating alcohol al-cohol used la all their preparations Joog before tho eighteenth amendment swept out the bars. Thero were frequent clashes? No-bouy No-bouy said a word in favor of beer. Patent medicine men told Mr Volstead that so far as tlioy were concerned, he could go so far as ho liked wth beer, but they did not agreo with his announcement that ho would fight to nwont tho uso of wlno as an alcoholic base for any rctnody. Extract manufacturers were more pronounced In their opposition to the new tightening up measure, ono witness wit-ness reminding tho chnlrman that his enforcement act had 'to be amenqed In the huuse to give (hem a chance to live. Charles D. Joyce, president of a flavoring fla-voring extract association, declared no man had ever been nblo to drink lomon extract In sufficient quantities to make hi a drunk and live. "The only man who ever tried to do It, to my knowledge," ho hald. "had to lino Ills mouth and throat with talcum powder before taking the first swallow. The witness was asked If he knew anything of the practice of taking tho fire out or extracts through a polce or bread.whlch soaked it up llko n pougo, hut he never heard or It. Nor had he ever heard of "Jomulca ginger drinking Mends," he added. "Well,''! seen droves or them," said Chairman Volstoad. Kvoryhody wanted to, got rid or tho medical bootlegger, some suggesting that his products be taxed ir ho could not be suppressed, ltoproscntatlve Hill, Republican, Maryland, who has Introduced a bill to repeal tho Volstead law, urged an amendment which would put prohibition enrorcoment In tho hands of tho attorney general. Asked If ho thought It would lead to mora rigid ri-gid eufrcemet, Mr. Hill rtipllod he Ihught It would. Then If you nro trying to repeal tho Volstead act, why so solicitous about Its enforcement," asked Representative Representa-tive Tillman, Democrat, Arkansas. "As long as wo have tho luw it ought to bo enforced," ho declared, "llut when you hnvo a luw that Is a national nation-al Joke because or nonenrorcement, It Is calculated to bring alt laws In contempt." con-tempt." Whllo the Volstead law was being shot ut nnd, defended, members of the committee claimed It was not nearly so rrastlc as Illinois and Maine pro. hlbltlon statutes. Hoprcscntarlvo Horsey, Republican Maine, rotorrlng to sixty years of pro-hlbltlon pro-hlbltlon In his state, told how It had worked. "All I have to say about tho Maine that my great-unclo helped to frumo It and he died rogroltlng it. England DIscuims Debt |