Show SEIZURE OF CARSS CARS IS COURT TOPIC Supreme Branch Hears Hearse Arguments on Boot Boot- Bootlegging Bootlegging Bootlegging legging Issues ByI WASHINGTON Oct 20 Dy 20 The Associated Press Press Zing Bootleg ging engaged the tho attention of the court Tuesday tho the gov gov- government government Insisting upon Its right I to confiscate under old taxing laws automobiles seized while I being used In the tho Illegal transportation transportation transportation tation of liquor So perplexed was the court al- al after af after ter tel tho question had been argued I at the tho last lut term that It ordered argument argument reargument of the Issue which came up In two to c cases es one from fromI I Alabama where the government lost and Ae other from the thc I state of Washington whore where the tho circuit court of appeals asked for I Instructions The question among other things Involves automobiles being sold on the tha installment plan The government contended the tax upon manufacture of ot liquor by the revised statutes In effect long before national prohibition applied to moonshine whisky and that automobiles used In Its transportation were automatically forfeited It was wu argued on the other side aido that a tax could not bo be Imposed upon something that was pro pro- prohibited prohibited pro prohibited being Intended exclusive exclusive- exclusively ly for the raising of revenue and further that automobiles seized In violation of the prohibition law must be disposed of ot under th the terms of ot that law |