Speech #710282103

I call to the attention of the Senator from Wisconsin the fact that the United States Federal grand jury probed this matter about two years ago. and in its report said that a set price of $1.82 a keg was the charge made by the border patrol for permitting liquor to enter from Canada. and that lump sums were often paid in excess of that figure for "open nights" on the river. when any amount of rum could be run over without fear of detection on the part of the police. and that out of a number of 187 enforcement men in one year the whole force had been discharged for corruption. and half that number employed again. so that there was a turnover of 150 per cent in the border patrol at Detroit in a single year.