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Show $9,000,000 TO ENFORCE DRY LAW NEEDED WASHINGTON. Dec. 6. The crisis In the federal prohibition enforcement fight has been reached in the opinion jof Commissioner Haynes. It was disclosed dis-closed today In reports of recent hearings hear-ings before a house appropriations sub-committee In asking $9:000. 00.1 for the next discs! year for his department, Mr Haynes said that If a similar amount was a'lowed for prohibition enfori -jmenl cdntihuallj for fixe or sW years, a reduction then ought to bo possible. but that the critical period for enforcement en-forcement was now at hand. Mr. Haynes said then, were 3 SOO men employed In the work of pro-l pro-l hlbltlon enforcement Because the appropriation ap-propriation asked for next year represents rep-resents a reduction of 260,000 from this year's outlay, he said there would be a slight reduction In his forces. HAYNES GRATIFIED. He said that he was "gratified" with the present functioning of hts enforcement machinery, and that the department was securing fine cooperation co-operation from states and counties In the main. Courts were becoming more sympathetic." he asserted, and jail sentences and fines were becoming becom-ing hcaier. There?' is a disposition to tighten up," he added in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1922, he said there were L'0,483 convictions In federal courts for violations of the prohibition law. Acquittals numbered 4 620, cases dropped 3,217, and civil casea dropped S4-I At the end of the year he said 15 910 cases were pending In federal courts, bringing tho total of cases handled 44,779 These figures. ho I said, did not Include cases in state I courts Fines In federal courts which were deposited In the treasury, bo placed at $2,791,000. Mr Havns asked for $10 000 for "buying evidence - and told the committee com-mittee $139,000 had been spent in that way during tho last year The prohibition commissioner underwent un-derwent a long examination by Representative Rep-resentative GallUan. Democrat, Mabsachusetts. who Inquired particularly particu-larly about tho method of handling the departments publicity Mr Galll-van Galll-van referred to what h termed the "wildly extsavagant" statement ho said emanated from the bureau one of which he -said credited Mr. Haynes with having asserted that 20.000.000 Americans had "gone on the water Waffon" since the enactment of tho I Volstead act. Mr Haynes denied knowledge of the statement. . . ,. r-w I.' I T! rX7 Mr Haynes said there hud been a splendid reaction, by the public towards to-wards his department's work and Clashed with Mr Oalllvan over tho j results of the elections of November - Mr Galllvan citing the voting clown in his stato of an enforcement measure, and tho commissioner aj-sertlng aj-sertlng that prohibition had won where "conditions were normal 1 In reply. Mr Haynes admitted Increased In-creased arrests under the narcotic law during the last fiscal year, but attributed at-tributed it to tho increased efficiency of tho narcotic division, and not to the prohibition laws. |