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Show WEBB-KENY ON LAW UPHELD IN KANSAS TOPEKA. Kan., April 11. Tho Wcbb-Kenyon Wcbb-Kenyon bill, passed by congress, which gives tho suites control over llcjuor shipments, ship-ments, met the favor of tho Kansas supremo su-premo court today. As a result of the decision Kansas will take chnrjre of all liquor shipped Into tho atatc. Tho case was thnt of a SL Louis browing company appealing from a doclslon of the district court In Cherokee county. The St, Louis companv shipped a carload of beer to Co- jujiu, j-.wi. oiiuo oiiiciao coniiBcateu 11 under tho Webb law, and the companv sought tho return of the beer or reimbursement. reim-bursement. "Without this law no stato has any more control over liquor than It has over the shipment of wheat and corn," said Justice R. A. Buroh, who wrote today's opinion. "Wo bellevo that the liquor trnfflo can bo mode subject to tho same regulations us obscene literature and white slavery, and that congress has sufficient suf-ficient power to regulate tho shipments of liquor as It hajj to prohibit transportation transporta-tion of white slaves." |