January
Twenty-sixth,
1920.

My dear Governor:-

Your telegram received, and in perfect candor I desire to say that I do not think it is necessary for the states to employ counsel to defend the Eighteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution. In my opinion the suit brought by Rhode Island is really a frivolous one, and does not stand a ghost of a show of being seriously entertained by the Supreme Court of the United States. All the recent decisions of the court indicate this.

With must respect, I beg to remain,

Very truly yours,

[unsigned]

Hon. Carl E. Milliken,
Governor of Maine,
Augusta, Maine.