Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1890 — ORIGINAL PACKAGES GO. [ARTICLE]

ORIGINAL PACKAGES GO.

A Decision of the Federal Court Allows Them to be Opened. A decision was rendered in the United States Circuit Court in Topeka, Friday morning, that has dropped like a bombshell and created consternation among the friends of prohibition in Kansas. The decision in question allows the reopening of original package liquor houses in that State, and in effect declares that the Wilson bill enacted by Congress does not restore the power of the Kansas prohibitory law as against original package saloons. The facts in the cash are that Charles Raaner, agent for a Kansas City liquor hou/e, wife arrested for selling liquor in Topeka after (the passage of the Wilson bill* The defbudant applied to the United States Circuit Court for a writ of habeas corpus, admitting that he sold liquors as charged, .butclaimed that inasmuch as the Kansas prohibitory law was enacted before the Wilson bill, that the Wilson bill did loot apply. Judges Foster and Phillips .ustamed this view and granted the writ,