| Show Jail Sentences For Violations LaW Total Years I An amazing record of or crime orme and conspiracy was disclosed when Attorney Attorney At- At torney orney General Daugherty submitted to President Coolidge a full report concerning the work of the federal Judiciary In its Us efforts to enforce prohibition since the enactment of the he act forty one forty one months ago In a synopsis of the report made I public with President Coolidge's consent consent consent con con- con con- sent the period since the I la law w was placed on the statute books I was described d by the department of justice as one of the tragic epochs in American history relative to law enforcement It reveals among other things said the official synopsis that the I department of justice has been called called call call- ed upon to prosecute a member of the judiciary prominent members of the American bar high officials of the federal and state governments multi-millionaires multi scions o of the nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's aristocracy and the sordid story of ot assa assassination bribery and corruption that found its way into the very sanctums wherein the In Inviolability inviolability inviolability in- in violability of the law was presumed to have been held sacred Enforcement cement Essential Attorney General Daugherty has felt that strict enforcement of the prohibition law not only was an essentiality es- es s- s If it reverence andi and respect for the courts was to remain undimmed undimmed un- un dimmed but that It was his duty to Insist that law-enforcement law officials under his supervision throughout the United S States apply alike to every ovary man or concern scorning the federal statutes the whole power and weight wee of the law United States attorneys In every state In the union understood this mandate of the attorney general to mean precisely what it Indicated and various detailed detailed de de- tailed reports now before Mr Daugherty Daugh- Daugh orty erty reveal that since the prohibition law went into effect January 16 1920 more mOTe than cases have been terminated of which there were convictions that fines totalIng totaling total total- ing ng more than have been ass assessed sed in criminal cases alone that jail sentences for the thelast thelast thelast last twenty-three twenty months of national nation nation- al prohibition total more than years More than a year ago there was dispatched to the United States tes attorneys attorneys at at- a special series of instructions in which Mr Daugherty stated that while he was gratified with the progress progress progress pro pro- gress of prosecutions he nevertheless less less was desirous that a more more re relentless relentless relentless re- re campaign be launched that the various cUq cliques ues and rings and so called leaders in ever every big bg city in the United States States' be rounded round round- ed up and brought to trial with the least possible delay Dockets Congested He called attention to the congestion congestion congestion con con- of the federal dockets and insisted that inasmuch as his condition condition condition con con- hampered the orderly process process process pro pro- cess of justice and operated inmany in inmany mall many Instances to the advantage ot of law violators a l more mo speedy disposition dispo dispo- of all pending and current originating cases would soon cl clear ar arthe the calendars and furnish convincing convincing convincing ing evidence th that t the federal government cov- cov was not disposed to tolerate tolerate tolerate toler toler- ate ate delays This Injunction was observed scrupulously by the federal attorneys attorneys' attorneys with a 3 result that the more rapid closing of cas cases had a wholesome wholesome wholesome whole whole- some effect Violators real realizing ng they might not enjoy the advantage of or long delays delay's but would be brought ht speedily to trial were forced forre to plead guilty in large numb numbers and the government consequently was saved considerable time tm and the tho enormous expense of trials There W were many bitterly c contested contest ted t- t ed cases oases however but in tho the great majority the government was vie vic 1 On Correspondence u |
