LID SHUTS DOWN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1710, 29 December 1919, Page 8

LID SHUTS DOWN.

ALf'OfU)!. MAX IX I'.S. lICGJ'i !/,.-v; ( !'' T.l'.l'r. i!. i v.v\< orvKii, Dec is:.. A message from waslniigtoii statis Unit the decision of the United Sjtates Supremo Cdri.rt thai tiie War Tiim? Prohibition Constitutional Enforcement Act must, continue till peace is proclaimed was-a swooping victory for the contention of prohibitionists iihl the Government. It moans that millions of gallons of intoxicating liquors how stored throughout the country, and valued at £200,000.000. will be nearly a total loss unless peaee is proclaimed before constitutional prohibition becomes effective. The court held that the provision of the War Time Act, stating that prohibition shall end with the conclusion or the war, can have no other legal moaning than at: the proclamation of peace. P.cenuse of tliifi decision the Government will lose £100,000,000 in 'revenue from whisky alone, unless the ban is lifted before January 16. LTGJUORSELLERS LIABLE. "The signing of the armistice," said Judge Brandcis, "did not abrogate the wartime powers of Congress." Jle added that the Government did not appropriate liquor by stopping its domestic sale, as a way was left open for exporting it. The constitutional prohibition amendment to the Constitution is binding on the Federal Govern: rrtcnt as well a$ on the States, and supersedes State laws. • . The court declared that the decision means the clamping down again of the lid on all sections where it was lifted by Ihe Federal Court injunctions, and subjects r. 11 who thus sold intoxicating liquor to prosecution! In 'Louisville, Sj. Louis, New Orleans, end Province the courts held that the Act was unconstitutional. In New York, Boston. Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Chicago, ami alone the Pacific coast the Act was upheld.