The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph

THE BEER RULES
COME THIS WEEK

By W. H. Atkins.

Washington, June 20.—Defeat for the Volstead bill to outlaw beer was predicted, today, as the row began to take on more fire. The prohibitionists, at loggerheads with Andy Volstead, author of the bill to make medicinal beer-drinking a crime, went before the house rules committee for a grilling. Their camp was split wide open by the charges and counter charges of bad faith passed between Wayne Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon league and Rev. E. C. Dinwiddie, leader of several national temperance bodies.

Dinwiddie turned loose a verbal torrent of criticism against Wheeler and accused him of prime responsibility for an imminent flood of beer and liquor, such as the country has not known for twenty months, since the "dry" era began. Dinwiddie said of all persons in the land, Wheeler is to be chiefly blamed for the refusal of congress to make the beer bill a means of paralyzing legitimate users of alcohol.

"There will be a deluge of beer and other liquors and Wheeler is to be blamed for his obstinate attitude," said Dinwiddie. "He, alone, is responsible if delay results from his notion that anti-beer legislation must be hooked up with a lot of other controversial matters. I am deeply sorry that such a situation has arisen. But congress cannot be expected to take action which clearly will exterminate legitimate interests under the guise of interdicting beer."

The row between the "drys" means inevitably that the house and senate will refuse to set aside its normal procedure to furnish a vehicle to "railroad" the bill through.

As the merry "dry" row brewed, there came a demand upon the treasury to issue the beer regulations and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon directed Commissioner of Internal Revenue Blair to make the beer regulations effective without further delay.

Secretary Mellon said frankly there was no excuse for holding up the regulations and he admitted that the brewers, if they elected, could be successful through mandamus proceedings, in forcing the treasury to put regulations into operation.

Revenue Commissioner Blair, today, saw that the "drys" were hopelessly divided and that their apparent hostility to any modification of the Volstead bill would only prolong the fight in congress into an endless struggle.

He decided to affix his signature at once to the beer regulations and they will go out in a day or two, giving full authority to brewers to manufacture medicinal beer "with a kick" and to sell it to wholesale and retail druggists.
AS EMERGENCY BILL

Dry Leader Would Put Through the Volstead Anti-Beer Bill.

Washington, June 20.—Former Attorney General Palmer rightly construed the Volstead act in holding that beer could be prescribed as a medicine, E. C. Dinwiddie, formerly executive superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league, testified. Mr. Palmer did the only thing he could do in rendering that opinion, said Mr. Dinwiddie. Unless the anti-beer bill is passed quickly, rivers of beer will soon begin to flow. The witness said he thought time might be saved by putting through the beer provision as a special emergency measure.