Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-27 | Page 1 | Senator Scores Prohi Politics

I J R SC R RES PRom Wheeler Asserts Prohibition Prohibition ti tion n Issue Has Been Made Football WASHINGTON Jan 27 United Press Press Press- Press Tho prohibition controversy was revived today and spread over ver overa vera a wi wider er front The Tho House the tIme senate anc and Attorney General Mitchell 1 figured In the new developments while Democrats entered tho the controversy with ch charges of ot political machinations machina In prohibition enforcement p personnel As Senator Burton K Wheeler Democrat Montana l was wa asserting In tho senate that tho tIme prohibition Issue IH is being marIe made a n political foot- foot P lf f U p l commissioner pr t Ht hi hOltso committee Ul P tho the pending Williamson on bill wo would lessen tho tIm influence of pr civil service service erv- erv ice Ico on appointment of the lie prohIbition tion personnel onnel WANTS MORE MORE LAXITY General Mitchell preceded preceded pre pre- ceded edoo Doming Deming on OYt the stand taking tUb position that moro more laxity should I ho allowed in the selection nf or at attorneys at- at when hen prohibition Continued on Ca page 7 1 I SENATOR SCORES I POLITICS Continued from m page age 1 L ment ment Is transferred jd to tho the Department from tho the treasury under tho tho ho pending Williamson bill Ho contended civil chon service restrictions hampered appointments and antI ar uell that selection o of attorneys could b best without regard to the rigid rules of oC the set service t The These e developments followed a charge from Jouett Shouse of ot tho Democratic national committee that thata a system promulgated by bythe bythe bytho the tho Whito House to obtain data concerning government vas was as part of or the tho spoils system J A A denial denSal was promptly mado made b by byona byone one ona of President Hoovers Hoover's secretaries secre secre- Walter Newton who asserted tiO tho Index was a n routine census Which lon long Ions had been in uso use at tho t Hou House e. e He contended Shouse was animated In hits his charge chargo b by po political po- po utica motives DEMANDS INQUIRY Wheeler brought the tho issue before the senate in connection with tho the transfer of or John F F. C C. Herbert former former former for for- mer prohibition administrator at Baltimore to the tho samo same post in tho the Montana Idaho district He lIe de demanded demanded tie tie- an investigation In or of tho the transfer and publication of tho Justice Jus jus- tico tice department report concerning Herberts Herbert's activities In Baltimore Senator Borah Dorah of ot Idaho unofficial cial bI al df dry leader who Is planning a fight fiShl to revise re the existing enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment personnel declared he had feen cen tho the report and that It Ir it were true Herbert ought to bo be transferred trans trans- out of or tho the country Political Influence dominated l this selection Wheeler said sald never neVel tako talco prohibition out of of politics because the tho Republican national committee wants to keep control of oC appointments I J Prohibition Is heln heIn mt made a po- po football while lot lots of uC earnest l connected with tho the temperance temper temper- ance nce or organizations are lre being fooled