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Show HEALTH BEER IS 1 BARRED Bill BREWERS ARE DISAPPOINTED WHEN HIGH COURT GIVES RULING Supreme Tribunal Upholds Congress on Measure Forbidding Brew For Medical Purposes Washington. The Supreme Court Monday held the act of congress expressly ex-pressly forbidding the prescribing of beer for medicinal purposes was constitutional. con-stitutional. Suits appealed to the court by James Everard's breweries and Edward Ed-ward & John Burke, Ltd., of New York were argued as one case to determine de-termine the authority of congress to deny by legislative act the privilege of drinking beer under a physician's prescription for its medicinal properties. proper-ties. Lower federal courts decided that congress was within its consti-tional consti-tional powers. The brewers appealed on the grounds that the eighteenth amendment did not empower congress con-gress to forbid the use of any sort of liquor as a medicine. In the unanimous opinion of the court, the eighteenth amendment gave congress sweeping discretionary powers to exercise in enforcement. It was held that if, in the opinion of congress, the prohibition of the prescribing 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 long and broad rule of this court to give an act of congress every benefit of the doubt," the decision said. "The decision of congress that the Willis-Campbell act was necessary effectively to enforce the eighteenth amendment must be accepted as constitutional, con-stitutional, unless something conclusive conclu-sive appears to the contrary. We are unable to find any reasonable grounds for questioning the judgment of congress." The second attempt of former Governor Gov-ernor John C. Walton of Oklahoma to secure a review of his impeachment impeach-ment and removal from office by the Oklahoma legislature was denied by the United States supreme court. Walton had sought an injunction restraining the legislature in' federal district court in Oklahoma. The district dis-trict court dismissed the petition for want of jurisdiction. At the dismissal, Walton appealed to the supreme court. This court upheld up-held the district court. The Mission Indians were declared by the supreme court not to be entitled entit-led to continue upon the tract of land they had been occupying irj Kern county, California.. The order of the interstate commerce com-merce commission regulating the distribution dis-tribution of cars among soft coal mines located on two or more railroads rail-roads was approved by the supreme court. The Idaho Irrigation ' Company through the Big Wood River Reservoir 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 af-firming the decision of the distinct court in the case. |