Show WITH DRY CHIEf ON BOOZE BOnZE LAW LA Treasury Secretary and ad I Haynes Disagree in Attitude I Atti-I Atti Atti- tude hide Toward Prescription tion Decision WILL APPEAL CASE CASETO I. I TO SUPREME COURT OURT Conscience to Be Physicians Physician's Physicians Physician's Physicians Physician's cian's Guide in Ordering Liquor for Patients C Cabinet binet Member Says WASHINGTON May 10 By U. U U tT p P.-Dis P. P. Disagreement over over prohibition enforcement which the supreme court and Congress will be call called ell upon to settle has occurred between Secretary of the Treasury Mellon rind and tid Prohibition Commissioner Haynes Mellon regards as illogical and Improper the provisIon of or law lI limitIng limiting limit limit- Ing amount of ol liquor doctors may prescribe for their patients He believes be believes believes be- be congress either did n not t Intend arbitrarily to tb put a 8 drastic limitation limitation limita limita- tion on doctors or that If tr it had that Intention it ft was wrong Haynes replies to such arguments that It is the law and has lias to be en enforced enforced en- en forced no matter whether it Is il illogical 11 logical or not S The disagreement has haR been brought to light by the action of Judge Knox in New York yesterday In granting at an injunction to to prevent prevent prevent pre- pre vent prohibition authorities s interfering interfering interfering inter inter- fering with a doctor in the prescribing In ing of or liquor o The decision by taking off oft the limit entirely from doctors left lert them free in Mellons Mellon's opinion to prescribe all gall the liquor they think necessary as often orten as they thi think k necessary HAYNES OPPOSED Haynes Hayes takes an entirely ely opposite view lie He w warned ed d doctor today that ad noone Ofle but the Individual doctor doctor doc doctor tor in In New New NewYork York who sued was as astr tr freed ed by the Knox injunction from froni the laws law's limitations At once a race began between Haynes and Mellon Menon to uphold their distinct and clashing views H Haynes his its lei legal I staff will carry canY an appeal to t the e United States supreme court and ask for speedy decision of the point which may prove vital to successful prohIbition prohibition prohibition I tion enforcement Mellon at at atthe the same same time began I preparation of new regulations I stating in fn effect to doctors rs that their conscience should in future guard them in prescribing liquor Mellons Mellon's position is ig that a doctor knows better than congress how much liquor he hp ought to order a pa patient patient patient pa- pa tient to take All AU Haynes has to d. d do with It in Mellons Mellon's opinion is to see that forgery of ot prescriptions or bootlegging by unscrupulous medicos Is not permitted frOLES POKED IN LAW Haynes laynes wants to know know how he can bo be expected to enforce prohibition tion if U the courts keep poking holes I in th the law like the recent American ship ruling and the Knox c- c tion Mellon replies that the Knox ruling ruling rul rul- ing does not punch any holes in th the law pointing out that the limitation on liquor prescriptions was passed by congress as an It ItIs Itis i lIs Is an Interference with and a re reflection reflection reflection re- re on a high profession any anyway anyway wa way Mellon holds The whole row will be taken up next winter when congress begins a araking araking raking over of the prohibition en en- en Wets say It Is Just another nail nan InI Inthe in inthe the coffin of the law I |