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Show i oo WASHINGTON, April 20. In deciding decid-ing a belated appeal, the supreme court yesterday held that transportation by the -owner of Intoxicating liquor into a dry state by means of liig own automobile, auto-mobile, was a violation of the Reed "bone dry" amendment. Tho opinion was rendered in government appeals from federal court decrees quashing part of an indictment against Everett L. Simpson, who was charged with carrying car-rying intoxicants from Wyoming Into Colorado. Associate Justice Van Deventer in rendering the opinion, said tho taking of intoxicants from one state to another, an-other, was interstate commerce, no matter how transported. The migratory bird act of 191S, designed de-signed to carry out provisions of a treaty between this country and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds, was held constitutional by the supreme court. The supreme court held unconstitutional unconstitu-tional tho New Mexico State act of 1919 levying an excise tnx upon the sale and use of gasoline Insofar as it I affects gasoline still in the original containers in which it was shipped into in-to the state. The supreme court reconvened without with-out rendering an opinion in any of the various pending cases involving the validity va-lidity of the prohibition amendment and portions of the enforcement act. WASHINGTON, April 19. The supreme su-preme court today upheld the Ken-Itdcky Ken-Itdcky separate coach act requiring scp-jaration scp-jaration of white and negro passengers and hol'ding that it applies to the So. Covington and Cincinnati street railway rail-way nnd the Cincinnati, Covington and Erlanger Railway company while oper a ting between points in Kentucky. Justices Jus-tices Van Deventer, Pitney and Day dissented in part. I nr. |