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 between the Treasury and the Justice Department for the issuance of industrial alcohol permits to the drug, paint and chemical trades.

Dr. James M. Doran, now the Treasury's Prohibition commissioner, was last week elated to remain in that department as Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol.

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