PROHIBITION: Funds Needed

Monday, Apr. 26, 1926

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To enable him as the executive arm of the Government to uphold the Constitution, specifically that short passage* of it known as the 18th Amendment, the President sent a message to the House demanding $3,000,000 in addition to the $21,000,000 which the House has already appropriated for prohibition enforcement during the coming year. This new money is for new activities under General Lincoln C. Andrews.

^{*There are 106 words to this amendment, as follows: 1) After
one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale or
transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation
thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the U.S. and all
territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is
hereby prohibited. 2) The Congress and the several States shall have
concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. 3)
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as
an amendment to the Constitution by the Legislatures of the several
States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the
date of the submission thereof to the States by the Congress.}