Show HEALTH BEER IS B BARRED RUED BY L LAW LJ I ARE DISAPPOINTED 4 WHEN HIGH COURT GIVES RULING t t'S Supreme S preme Tribunal Upholds Uphold Congress on Measure Forbidding I Brew For Medical Purposes The Tho The Supreme Court Monday donday held the act net of ot congress expressly ex pressly forbidding the prescribing of beer for medicinal purposes was con Suits appealed to the court by James Everards Everard's breweries and Edward Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward John Burke Ltd of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York were argued as one case to determine determine determine de de- termine the authority of ot congress to tode de deny y by legislative act the privilege of drinking beer under a n physicians physician's prescription for its medicinal proper proper- ties tics Lower federal courts decided that congress was wall within its powers The brewers appealed on the grounds that the eighteenth amendment did not empower congress congress congress con con- gress to forbid the use of any sort of liquor as ns a a. medicine In the unanimous opinion of the tho court the eighteenth amendment gave ERve congress sweeping discretionary powers to exercise in enforcement It It was held that if in the opinion of congress the prohibition of the prescribing prescribing pre pre- scribing of beer was necessary to proper enforcement of the whole amendment the court could find no reason for questioning such an act of congress It has been the tho long and broad rule JUle of this court to give an act of 01 congress every benefit of 01 the doubt I the decision said sald The decision of 01 congress that the Willis Campbell act was necess necessary ry I effectively to enforce the eighteenth I amendment must be accepted as constitutional con con- unless something conclusive conclusive sive alve appears to the contrary We are arc unable to find any reasonable grounds rounds for questioning the judgment of congress The second attempt of former Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- John C. C Walton of Oklahoma to secure a review of 01 his Impeachment impeachment impeach Impeach- ment and removal from office by the Oklahoma legislature was denied by bythe the United States supreme court Walton had sought an injunction restraining the legislature in federal district court in Oklahoma The dietrict district district dis die court dismissed the petition for want of jurisdiction At the dismissal Walton appealed to the supreme court This court upheld upheld upheld up up- held the district court The Mission Indians were declared by the supreme court not to be entitled entitled entitled led t to continue upon the tract of 01 land they had been occupying in Kern county California The order of the interstate commerce commerce com corn merce commission regulating the distribution dis dis- dis of f cars among soft Bolt coal coalmines coalmines coalmines mines located on two or or more railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads was approve approved by the supreme court The Idaho Idabo Irrigation Company through the Dig Big Wood River Reservoir Reservoir Reservoir Reser Reser- voir and Canal company obligated Itself under the Cary act to furnish more water than it had available it was held by the supreme court in affirming affirming affirming af af- af- af firming the decision of 01 the court in the case I |