The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-05-04
BONE DRY RULING
WAS TIPPED OVER
EFFECTS OF ORDER
High Court Decision 10 SaIe
Liquor Or Vessels
Can Sell On High Seas; Barred
From American Ports WITH
Stock Eoozs
rAzeciats6 Pr.ss Dispatch-l

!. IAeOocAto6 PrasS Dlsp6tch1
, Washington, d. G.. April So.-Fof-
eign and American steamships arc
prohibited from bringing into amer.
lean ports intoxicating liquors under
| seal intended for the use OF pas
sengers on outward voyages. the gu i.
preme court held today in cases in
yolving the bone dry" ruling OF At
torney General Daugherty.
AT the same time, however, the
highest court held that American
having aboard Intoxicating liquor
for beverage purposes on the high
seas and in foreign ports.
The effect of the supreme court
decision was to affirm to that ex-
tent the action Of Federal Judge
Hand in New York, upholding the
Daugherty opinion.
Ruling Was Overturned.
The ruling Of Attorney General
Daugherty against the serving of Ii
quor on American ships on the high
tseas was overturned, by the supreme
court, which held at the same time,
however, that the ban prohibiting
both American foreign ships from
bringing liquor stocks into Ameri-
can ports under bond was legal and
enforceable.
The court held that the prohibi-
ton amendment could not legally
be applied to prevent American
they are outside American territorial
waters. To that extent the decision
reversed decision in the case by
Federal Judge Hand at New York.
The Ruling Made.
When Attorney General Daugherty
ruled that foreign ships entering
American waters must be dry, and
that American ships should not car
ry at any time anywhere intoxicat-
ing liquors for beverage use, he
started a controversy which in in
tensity exceeded all others arising
in enforcement of national prohibit
ton since the Eighteenth Amend
ment was sustained by the supreme
court.
Not only did the foreign steam
ship companies enter a protest, but
the American line also strenuously
in the ruling an encroachment upon
treaty rights, violation of interna-
tional law and usage a disregard
of the comfy which they commended
should prevail among nations, and
an abandonment by the United
States of its time honored position
that ships were at all times a part
of the sovereignty of the nation un-
der whose flag they navigated the
seven seas. ~ - clGTIs
The American lines declared en-
forcement Of the order would result
in the disappearance of American
shipping in the passenger travel of
the world, and that it consequently
would Offset and render ineffective
any effort this government might
make to build up merchant marine.
From time immemorial 1t had
been the universal custom of the
ships of all nations, 1t was assert
ed, to carry aboard liquor refresh
ments as we'll as food for the use
OF passengers on voyages. The in
toxicating liquors and other sup
plies intended to provision the ship
were part of the, ship, it was con-
tended, as much SO as it's spars,
anchors and other equipment.
In the parlance of the navigator
these supplies intended for con-
sumption by passengers and crew
are known as sea stores. No ma
ton, in the exercise of its sover-
eighty, it was argued, had attempted
to exercise Jurisdiction over sea
stores in their customs and other
regulations, none going further than
to exercise supervision through
boarding officers to assure that
nothing contained in the stores
should be brought ashore in viola
ton Of any law Of the country by
the vessel