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Show lAWEi BARRED BY LAW BREWERS ARE DISAPPOINTED WHEN HIGH COURT GIVES RULING Supreme Tribunal Upholds Congress on Measure Forbidding Brew For Medical Purposts Washington. The Supreme Cour. Mjncay 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 I James Kverard's breweries and E-i-! ward & John Burke, Ltd., of New I York were argued as one case to de-' 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 conditional condi-tional powers. The brewers appeaic-d 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 wh.jle amendment, the court could f.nd r.o reason for questioning su-h an act of congress. "It has been the lor.g ar.d broad rule of this court to give an act of congress every benefit of the doubt," the decis-ion said. "The decision of congress that the Willis Campbell act was necessary I effectively to enforce the eighteenth amendment must be accepted as Cu.-.- stitutior.al, unless orr.e'.h:rg cu.nclu-i cu.nclu-i sive appears to the contrary. We are I unable to find ar.y ri-jjor.abie i grounds for que.-tic-r.ir.g the j-j igmt.-.t I of congress " I The second attempt of former Governor Gov-ernor John C. Walton cf Ollar.' ma to secure a re. iew cf his imp ach I merit ar.d removal from office ty the I Oklahoma legislature was .ie.-. ej ty I the I'r.i'.ed States .supre're c urt. Walton ha i tsejvht an ii.junct. .retraining the leg v.iture in fe !e:al di-trict court in Oklahoma. The iis-1 iis-1 triot court J:m-iv.1 the st'.:on f r want cf juris ;:ct. en. I At ti-.e (iisn-.isTil, Walton a-r.a!i i to the supreme court. Tins c jrt up-, up-, held the ii;s'.r:,t court. I The Mi-..n Ir. :.::s were oev '..-... ty the e.ra me fur: rot to ie --.'.:t b d to cor t.r-jc up :r the tr.-.ct of :.-,r. i they ha I bun occi r g K. r-i ; County, ( a!:f ri ia. j The (1-,:, r f t'"-e i-,'.er-'.ate c.---. r erce ceinr- i.v;. rc.-ul.-.t:- .- th- il. -t r 1 1 - j '. . n cf cars aniorg s -'t c al ' r.e loc.tod on two cr mere ra.l ro.iii ;. aj rrnfl ty t'-.c s.ipr, n.c court. The Idehi Irr'gation tVr-iparv ' through the !!:.r W. , K.ver K. . r-vo;r r-vo;r an I (".anal c mr.vy. . h 1 itself, under the Gary act. 1 fur- : h n.or- wa'.r "hin it had r.vn:'i.: 1,-, it . as he'd hy the .;; rcu e c.jrt in ' l ining the ,!,H-i..a ,.f ;;-e . , rou: t m the case. |