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Show J HETS' Oil ING ! HHTJpiSi ashington View Is That ' I ,Vartime Prohibition Act ( j. Will Be Upheld. j i i i'!.u:i;o Tribune Special s-Vrviec.l j S'.SKIN'.TO, IVe. i". -With ron- i i'.'.siciiiil prohibition only t'orry days j an:, the decision of the supreme it en wart into prohibition, which j Vpul'iv will be handed down nevt ' -n'uiv, is nwnited with feverish in- . '?t hv the liquor intoK'sts aiul the , jjoiial' friends of Je-hii barleycorn. pin upon it their last faun hope t a wet I'hristnias. 'lie decision inav be postponed until V following Monday, a hearing for " se urging repeal of tlv wartime law i in been arranged before the house . ,iiin? ;oo eu agriculture for Tuesday, i '"-ember 10, bv Kepresentatice c'.alU- ,. of Massachusetts. Mr. Sullivan to-' to-' ' pointed out thai the government i lose about -"ioo,-i0."i'0 in revenue. financial and liquor interests up-:s;::'.atelv up-:s;::'.atelv $l,i00,iVl.iKV if uo VO-! VO-! 1 of trace mvrvones before January '-viien the constitutional amendment i exes effective. There will be I ?e decision days; before the C'hrist-j C'hrist-j i holiday, but it is no: anticipated I t the deeislea. if not handed down ! t Monday, -will be rendered later n Peeember lo. I fhe odds are- three to two hero that , j ' wartime- law will be upheld, but v Te are those also who believe the isiou w-iil be split in its effect, de-ing de-ing that, congress has the power to jblish wartime, prohibition, but de-og de-og the constitutional right of eon-ss eon-ss to define 2.73 per cent beer as Vj intoxicant. Prohibitionists, how-r. how-r. are confident of complete victory. Everv argument for the eonstrue- of tlio war prohibition net to per-2.7o per-2.7o per cent beer and the rea-; rea-; why w-ar prohibition should be deed de-ed unconstitutional, are now before supreme court,' ' said Wayne B. -eler. general counsel of the Anti-. Anti-. on League of America, today "An w U." decision is hoped for. This will le whether the presideut has power leclare tho war prohibition act ?d before the peace treaty is signed, ho eourt sustains the act. congress ( have no good reason for reversing Of action." |