100 Years Ago May 10, 1922 Addressing a meeting of wets at St. Louis, Congressman John Philip Hill of Baltimore said that Judge A. J. Curran of Pittsburg, Kas., in warning a violator of the Volstead law, threatened to order his house burned if another violation occurred there. Hill said he would ask the impeachment of Judge Curran. “As long as Congress would impeach me, I shall not worry,” Judge Curran said today.