Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1919 — CHICAGO REMAINS DRY THROUGH JUDGE’S RULING. [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO REMAINS DRY THROUGH JUDGE’S RULING.

The liquor interests were given another jolt Monday when Judge George A. Carpenter handed down a decision in the United States district court which held that the war । time prohibition act and the Volstead enforcement act were constitutional. Judge Carpenter axt. nounced that Judge Louis Bitzhenry, of Peoria, had concurred in the decision. penter denied the suit for injunction brought by Attorney Levy Mayer, representing Hannah & Hogg, wholesale liquor dealers, to restrain the United States district attorney, C. F. Clyne, and Julius F. Smietanka, collector of internal revenue, from enforcing the dry act and the enforcement law. Under the fifth amendment to the constitution, which provides that legislation restricting personal liberty of individuals may be passed if the community as a whole is benefited. Judge Carpenter held that congress was empowered to pass the two acts involved in the case. He held the acts constitutional because “demobilization” of industries mobilized by the war are not yet complete, and that the country was still in a state of war, regardless of General Pershing’s statement that army demobilization was complete and despite the president’s veto of the Volstead act indicating that the war is over.