Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-03 | Page 6 | Suit Filed in Supreme Court to En Join State

SUIT FILED IN SUPREME COURT TO ENJOIN STATE COLCMDIS. O. April .1 George 9 Hake. Cincinnati attorney, and Anti -Saloon leaguer, filed suit in the supreme court today to enjoin the secretary of state from submltt'ns: to a vote of 'he people a referendum o . the resolution adopted by the general gen-eral assembly ratifying the national prohibition amendment. Hawke. in his suit, contends that there la no authority of the constitution constitu-tion of the state or federal court for a referendum on the ratification or the national prohibition amendm'-n that 35 other states having ratified the federal amendment and the result having been once announced by the secretary of stat- at Washington, no state ran reconsider Its action on this amendment.