Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1918 — NO EARLY DECISION ON TEST CASE EXPECTED [ARTICLE]

NO EARLY DECISION ON TEST CASE EXPECTED

Indianapolis, April 2.—W. R. W'heeler, of the National-Anti Saloon League, made the chief argument for the dry forces here today in urging the constitutionality of the Indiana prohibition law. His claim was that th elgeislature possesses a police power and the enactment of the prohibition Measure makes use of these powers. Phillip Gould, attorney for the Cook Brewing Company, of Evansville, representing the wets, declared the Cook Company’s value would be reduced from $1,000,000 to $500,000 us the law* were held constitutional. He argued that prohibition was held unconstitutional in 1855 by the supreme court and that the basic law had not been changed since then.