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Show MELLON SPLITS KIT CHIEF SECRETARY AND HAYNES DISAGREE DISA-GREE IN ATTITUDE TOWARD PRESCRIPTION DECISION Conscience to be Physician's Guide in Ordering Liquor for Patients, Cabinet Member Saya; Will Appeal to Supreme Court Washington. Disagreement over prohibition enforcement which the supreme su-preme court and congress will be called upon to settle has occurred between be-tween Secretary of the Treasury Mel-Ion Mel-Ion and Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. Mellon regards as illogical and improper the provision of law limiting limit-ing amount of liquor doctors may prescribe pre-scribe for their patients. He believes congress either did not intend arbitrarily arbi-trarily to put a drastic limitation on doctors or that if it hud that intention, inten-tion, it was wrong. Haynes replies to such arguments that it is the law, and has to be enforced en-forced no matter whether it is illogical illog-ical or not. The disagreement has been brought to light by the action of Judge Knox in New York Wednesday in granting an Injunction to prevent prohibition authorities interfering with a doctor in the prescribing of liquor. The decisions, by taking off the limit entirely from doctors, left them free in Mellon's opinion, to prescribe all the liquor they think necessary, as often as they think necessary. Haynes takes an entirely opposite view. He warned doctors Thursday that no one but the Individual doctor in New York, who sued, was freed by the Knox Injunction from the law's limitations. At once a race began between Haynes and Mellon to uphold Chelr distinct and clashing views. Haynes and his legal staff will carry car-ry nn appeal to the United States supreme court and ask for speedy decision de-cision of the point, which may prove vital to successful prohibition en. forcement. |