“DRY” AMERICA
VOLSTEAD ACT HELD VALID
COURT U NAN DIO US IN DECISION. RESPONSIBILITY THROWN ON CONGRESS. (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. The Eighteenth Amendment war sustained as valid by tlie Supreme Court to-day. (Received Feb. 25. 7.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON.. Feb. '2l. The Supreme Court % with the exception of Judge Hughes, who took no part in the case, 'due to his association with a similar case while practising as an attorney. _ unanimously upheld the constitutionality of the Eighteenth Amendment, reversing Judge Clark's ruing on December 16. ...
The Supreme Court’s decision is not unexpected, but great interest was centred in it. especially since the Government asked the Court to decide speedily, due to so much questioning in the public mind. Tlie Court offered a simple decision. asserting that Congress has entire power to prescribe ratification, either by legislatures or popular conventions. “This Court, states the decision, “has repeatedly and constantly declared that the choice or mode rests solely in the discretion or Congress.” , The decision has transterred tue battle over 'the liquor laws to the field of revision or repeal aud placed the entire question upon the shoulders of Cougvess and has lent added significance to the V ickersliatu report which is still widely disputed and is the subject of Senatorial investigations.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11450, 26 February 1931, Page 5
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