I said that we must. guard: against the passage of badly balanced acts which are not coordinated with other criminal laws. The eighteenth amendment. brought into this discussion by the.- gentleman. from Michigan. started a riot of absurd and. uncoordinated laws in this great Nation. A few dai ys ago you. passed a. bill that for aggregate penalty. of 12 months for violating the Volstead Act an alien should be deported. while to be thus banished he must rob. steal. assault. or what not. to the extent of at least 18 months. You rated violations of tile Volstead Act as 50 per cent more criminal than any other crime in the Federal Penal Code. How idiotic! I feel sure that the alien deportation act will die. as it should. in the Senate. but it is an excellent example of unscientific as well as unAmerican legislation. The Volstead Act itself is an example of stupid and mendacious legislation. Under its false standards I go to jail if I make. at home. old English ale of onehalf of 1 per cent alcoholic content. but I can make. and have made. homemade wine or cider of onehalf of 1 per cent and. over. even up to 2.70 per cent or to 11.64 per cent and still violate no law. (See United States against Hill.) I am always fighting the enactment of any more laws like the Volstead Act. and that is why I moved tostrke out section 18 of the pending bill The pending bill as a whole is good. but with half of it held unconstitutional what remained might be dangerous.
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