Speeches are mostly those of Congressmen on bills affecting prohibition. The Speeches contains printed speeches primarily by members of Congress, many of them published in the Congressional Record, and Congressional Committee reports concerning prohibition issues. Speeches, 1911-1919, are by Richmond P. Hobson, William S. Kenyon, Woodrow Wilson, and Richard Yates; and Congressional Committee reports on prohibition bills and hearings. Speeches, 1920-1922, are on prohibition and law enforcement, by A. J. Volstead, Morris Sheppard, William D. Upshaw, Harry M. Daugherty, Thomas L. Blanton, Knute Nelson, Guy D. Goff, A. P. Nelson, Louis C. Cramton, Roy A. Haynes, Thomas Sterling, and others; and an "Explanatory Statement" dealing with the Supplemental Prohibition Enforcement Bill.
Speeches, 1923-1925, are by Louis C. Cramton, Walter F. Lineberger, Israel M. Foster, L. J. Dickinson, John G. Cooper, Thomas Sterling, William D. Upshaw, Richard Yates, John W. Summers, Alben W. Barkley, and others; and reports on the Supplemental Prohibition Act, "Enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment," a Congressional hearing "To Establish an Independent Prohibition Bureau," and hearings on extension of civil service regulations to prohibition agents.
Speeches dated 1926-1927 consist of addresses concerning prohibition by Clyde Kelly, Wesley L. Jones, John N. Tillman, John W. Summers, John G. Cooper, Grant M. Hudson, Edward E. Browne, Lamar Jeffers, B. G. Lowrey, W. T. Fitzgerald, Louis C. Cramton, William E. Borah, William G. McAdoo, and Miles C. Allgood. Speeches, 1928-1929, are by William G. McAdoo, James Cannon, Jr., J. Thomas Heflin, Grant M. Hudson, Morris Sheppard, Hugo L. Black, Wesley L. Jones, Lawrence D. Tyson, William E. Borah, Arthur Capper, Ernest H. Cherrington and others. Speeches for 1930-1933 include prohibition-related addresses by Morris Sheppard, Wesley L. Jones, James Cannon, Jr., Franklin W. Fort, Arthur Capper, James M. Beck, F. Scott McBride, Carroll L. Beedy, Leonidas C. Dyer, Smith W. Brookhart, Maurice H. Thatcher, Clarence F. Lea, and other Congressmen. Also included is the report of hearings on the "Border Patrol" by the Senate Committee on Commerce.
