Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1920 — HIGHEST COURT UPHOLDS DRY LAW [ARTICLE]

HIGHEST COURT UPHOLDS DRY LAW

Washington, D. C., June I.— Special.)—Another hope of l|ie “wet” antagonists of national prohibition went glimmering today when the United States. Supreme court decided that ratification of a cdhstitutional amendment is not subject to submission to a popular referendum. Ratification by any state legislature of the eighteenth amendment establishing national prohibition cannot be revoked by a vote of the people upon submission of the legislature’s action to a referendum, the court holds, for ratification is the function of no agency but the legislature. The Ohio legislature ratified the prohibition amendment and as it was the thirty-sixth state to ratify the federal secretary of state proclaimed the amendment adopted by the requisite three-fourths of the states. Subsequently Ohio, in a referendum of the question, voted against ratification of the amendment.