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Show WHISKY NOT SACRED, SAYS KANSAS COURT Constitutionality of Webb-Kenyon Act Is Upheld by Supreme Bench In Railroad Appeal. TOPEKA, Kan, Nov. 6. The constitutionality consti-tutionality of the Webb-Kenyon act, removing re-moving the interstate character and protection pro-tection from liquor shipped into a state to be used in violation of laws, was upheld up-held by the Kansas supreme court today. to-day. Tbe case in which the opinion was, rendered was an appeal on the part of the .Missouri Pacific Railroad company of a decision of the Cherokee county district court fining the road $100 on each of twelve counts on a charge of delivering intoxicating liquors within the state, in violation of the Mahin law requiring railroads to file statements state-ments of all the liquor shipped into the state. In the opinion, written by Justice West, it was held that "there is nothing noth-ing more sacred about whisky intended intend-ed for unlawful use than there is about diseased meat and lottery tickets, and therefore congress has the same power to prohibit the interstate traffic in one as in the other." |