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Show LEADERS HE ! ADMINISTRATION BILL TIGHTENING TIGHTEN-ING VOLSTEAD ACT GOES IN TO DISCARD Plan of Action Set Out By Steering I Committee Fixes Guitting Time; ! Truth In Fabric Out; Dis- cussing Debt Settlement j i Washington, D. C The administra- I tion bill for tightening up prohibition i enforcement was thrown into the dis- card Tuesday by the senate Republi- j can steering committee along with several other important measures. A program of legislation was out- j lined which leaders believe will per- mit adjournment of congress sine die j by the end of this month. While the French debt settlement ! was not technically before the com- j mittee, some Republican leaders said there was little prospect of action up- on it at this session since the latest j word from Paris was that there would be delay by the French parliament. The committee sidetracked the administration ad-ministration prohibition bill only after a fight, with Senator Willis, Republican, Republi-can, Ohio, demanding that it be given preferential status instead of being shoved over until the next and short session of congress. j While turning down this bill, the ; committee agreed to have the senate consider another administration measure mea-sure creating separate bureaus of pro- : hibition and customs in the treasury j department with a director at the i head of each. The house already has j approved this bill. . j A majority of the committee was of j the opinion that it was useless to call up the bill to put more teeth in the Volstead act unless the senate was prepared to remain here for many weeks while the whole wet and dry issue was again fought out on the floor. There were threats that the drys would undertake to call up the bill, which is now on the regular calendar, and force action before adjournment. If this course should be pursued the wets said they were ready to call for a showdown on a national referendum on prohibition as well as on their bills for modification of the Volstead act. ' |