PROHIBITION: Dry Transfer

The Senate last week gave President Hoover the first—and probably the last —Dry legislation recommended by his National Law Enforcement Commission when it passed the House bill to transfer Prohibition enforcement from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice. After July 1, field agents numbering 2,263 and 153 Washington clerks will find themselves working under Attorney General Mitchell, instead of Secretary Mellon, as Enforcer-in-Chief (TIME, Jan. 27).

Major benefit of transfer: tighter coordination between Dry raids and prosecutions.

Major criticism of transfer: divided authority...

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