LIQUOR LAW VALID
U.S. COURT’S RULING 57 CASES REPORTED (Elec. Tel. Coj^riglit— United Preßs Assn.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. The Supreme Court, with the exception of Judge Hughes, who took no pari in the case, clue to his association With a similar case while practising as an attorney, unanimously upheld the constitutionality of the Eighteenth Amendment, reversing Judge Clark’s ruling on December 16. The Supreme Court's decision was 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. The 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 of mode rests solely in the discretion of Congress.” The decision lias transferred the battle over the liquor laws to the field of revision or repeal and placed the entire question upon the shoulders of Congress, and has lent, added significance to the Wickersham report, which is still widelydisputed and is the subject of Senatorial investigations.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17502, 26 February 1931, Page 2
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