WORSE PENALTIES
BREAKERS OF “DRY” LAWS U.S. SENATE PASSES BILL (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) WASHINGTON, Tuesday. After four days of an unusually frank debate on Prohibition, the Senate to-day passed a Bill providing for an increase of the maximum penalties under the Volstead Act to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of £2,000. The measure was amended to provide that the Federal Courts, in imposing sentences, shall distinguish between casual violators of the law and professional bootleggers. The Bill will now go to the House of Representatives, the leaders of which say it will be passed speedily. ftlr. W. L. Jones, Republican member of the Senate for Seattle, who introduced the measure, says it is designed to reach the rich bootleggers who are now escaping with light fines and brief terms of imprisonment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 594, 21 February 1929, Page 9
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134WORSE PENALTIES Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 594, 21 February 1929, Page 9
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