CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 374, 18 August 1926, Page 11

CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY.

Our papers bore big headlines about the inquiry going on before a Committee of the U.S.A. Senate. The wets were pressing for a modification of the Volstead Act, and much of their propaganda came out here, via the cables: Hut we saw no headlines announcing the recommendations of the Committee which heard and judged all that evidence. The following is the text ol the report drawn up by this Committee: TEXT OF MEANS’ REJ’OKT. The report of the Prohibition Committee was drawn by Chairman Means. It said — “The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified according to a proclamation of the Secretary of State, January 29, 1919. We believe this amendment to be mora'ly right and economically wise. “So long as this amendment is a part of our fundamental law, it is the duty of all officers, legislative, executive and judicial to aid in its enforcement. “The advocates of modification of the present Prohibition law's propose to weaken the same. They seek to directly or indirectly authorize the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages. “The Constitution is a grant of powers. Those powers are limited and such limits are not to be tianscended. A national referendum is not provided for, and it is our belief that it was not the intention of the iramers of the Constitution that a national referendum would ever be attempted. No laws have been enacted which provide a machinery for the holding of such a referendum. ’’