The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-20
MATERIAL TURN IN THE LIQUOR CASES WILL BE TAKEN EAR.
 " THIS MORNING.
TAKEN UNDER ADVISEMENT
Every Inch of the Ground Being Con. tested in County Court Where the Petitions Have Been Under Con. sideratlon for One Week.

The most important decision vet m the contest over the issuance of lio- 'uor licenses. will be handed down by County Judge Mooney this morning and upon this decision hinges much public interest, since, after the con tention has been before the court for one week, the announcement this morning will be generally regarded a. indicating the answer to the much. mooted question: Shall Hot Springs be we; or dry?'
 Shall the petitions be supp7essed?"
 The decision will be an answer 10 this motion, to suppress certain of the petitions for alleged reason, then to suppress all for insufliciency if part is suppressed.
 And those who have followed close. ly the proceedings regard the decision as important for should it favor the remonstrators, there would not be much left 10 point to wet condi. NiOltf anu uli Aiit htHti ldlu- dN llif motion contains most of the grounds for contention by the demonstrators, should 1t be overruled that side viii have been materially weakened.
 There has always been indicated a disposition on the part of the court 10 make che proceedings as brief as possible, and the attorneys themselves in every address indicate that they are in hearty accord with a desire 10 ahbreyiate the matter, and yesterday morning when the attorneys for the remonstrators filed request for the service of summons on 2700 signers oa the petitions. 70 bring them into court, there was a general falling off the hops that the end was near.
 This, however. was buoyed up later when the all important question was brought up as to whether the peti- tions should be suppressed or not.
 Judge O. H. Sumpter at the outset of the morning session, filed a motion to suppress certain petitions, naming and designating them by number and assigning in full form his reasons that they should be suppressed. He asked that all the petitions to which Notary Will Vale had subscribed his jurat be thrown out. He claimed this on the alleged insufhciency of the oath prescribed. He asked that all the petitions bearing the jurat of X. T, Davies be thrown out because Davies, he alleged. was attorney for the petitioners and thereby it was not proper for him to subscribe He asked that the petitions circuat ed byaCHfford Bell be thrown out for reasons designated, and then closed the motion will a request thai all the petitions be thrown out, because with these he complained of removed, ther0 would not be enough names contained in other petitions to make a major lty of the white adults
 Judge Sumpter made a lengthy ar gpment in defense of his motion, cit ing number of authorities, after CTS asked the court if they should De heard. Judge Mooney told them that be thought the points raised should be answered. and Attorneys Davies, Wilmington and Sawyer made arglI- menls against the motion to suppress.
 In making his argument Judge Da- yies informed the court that he him self had been considering for some days a motion to put before the cour. and that motion was to dismiss all the remonstrances. and render judg' ment on the petitions as though there had been no remonstrance.
 He argued in support of this that the remonstrators had not filed speci iic allegations to support their claims on, but that rather they only denied everything done by the petitioners and that denial was not a proper answer in such a cause, lut that they should all be forced to SC. up then allegations, as of fraud, or insufil ciency, in detail make oath to the ai legations, and present them Detor' the court in that manner.
 Judge Mooney stated tha. the DO sition taken by Judge Davies was no supported properly and he reluse' to act on the Davies motion to dls miss the remonstrances, but he SUI ed that he would give the motion o' sumpter to suppress some study ah' hand down his decision this morning