The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1854-09-28
Liquor Law constitutional.

Court sitting in Athens county, a few
days since--Judges Nash, Whitman.
and Peck on the bench. Judge Whit
man delivered the opening Of the court
as follows:
This is an application for the allow.
ance OF writ Of error, to Probate Court.
based, among other things. upon the po-
sition claimed by the plaintiff in error
that, the act entitled ian act to provide
against the evils resulting from the sale of
intoxicating Liquors in the State of Ohio,
passed May lst 1854" is unconsitulion.
al. Counsel for the plaintiff in error,
contends that this act is unconstitutional
on the grounds
1st. That said act was never read
three times prior 10 its passage.
Cd. That it is prohibitory act, and
not merely an act to regulate the traffic
in spirituouS liquors.
We are referred to an opinion OF Chief
Justice Corwn, given at Chambers, 10
sustain the plaintiff in error. For this
opinion, reference is made to a newspa
per report of the case. This is not very
good evidence, but il it is to be believed. /.
the learned judge was, in our opinion,
clearly in the wrong. 1t was claimed
that the law was void, because it had not
been read upon three several days. The
present law, it rppears, was inserted as
an amendment, on the engrossment of the
bill, which had already been read twice.
1t was then read third time and put on
its final passage in the Senate. This, we
believe, is in accordance with the parli.
mentary law; when a bill is once in.
troduced on a subject, it is open to all
amendments germane TO the subje en-
braced in ii: and it matters not whether
the amendment is made in detail, or by
striking out all after the enacting clause,
and inserting an entire new bill in form
pertaining TO the subject matter of the
original bill, and no one ever before
heard that such an amendment had to be
read on three separate days. The bill.
not the amendment is to be read on three
several days.
This clause, that bill must be read on
three several ays, is no new provision; !;
it is mere copy OF the provisions con.
tained in the old constitution. We have
had, therefore, fifty years OF experience
under this clause, aud tins is the first
time that ever such an objection was
raised, and what was done in this case
has been done with almost every law
which has been passed. Every legislator
will recollect innumerable instances OF
Just such amendment as the one made in
this act.
The Court, therefore, have no doubt of
the invalidity of this objection, and that
the ac! was well passed.
We have not noticed The question
whether evidence can be adduced to dis.
prove the constitutional authenlication of
law. On this point we express no opin-
ion.
The second objection Is equally unten.
able. This is not prohibitory law; even
if a prohibIory act is unconstitutional, as
TO which question we express no opinion.
This law regulates the traffic so as to pre-.
vent the evils resulting from this traffic,
and comes clearly within legislation for
the prevention of the evils OF the traffic
of intoxicating liquors. Both of these
objections are therefore overruled.
------+SWs.----
Robert Dale Owen writes from Naples:
al have not seen man partially inloxi-
Gated since | have been in the city, OF
100000 inhabitants, and they say one
may live here for years without seeing
one. All drink light wines; and | am
not al all sure il Longworth, the Cincin-
naIi patron Of vineyards, is not doing
more in our country for temperance than
any temperance lecturer in it,"
We have no doubt OF it. Every days
observation but confirms usin the theory.
Devise some plan by which wines can be
made in this country as cheaply as they
are in France, Germany, and Italy, and
the immense consumption of distilled
spirits will be greatly lessened. The tes-
tImony Of Mr.. Owen agrees with that of
every traveller in tho wine growing coun.
tries Of Europe.-O. s. Journal.
OCCUPATIONS IN FRANcE.-I told you
lately Of the aborious and out-of.door
occupation Of women in France, and
may mention en- P0SSaHt that that remark.
able article is going the rounds OF Europe
IN various languages, as il il was some
thing new | will now say, per contra,
that my washerwoman is q man lie
lives in the Rue Blanc, and one may see
him up to his elbows in soap suds, iron
ing irlIlS or bosoms. Ills wife is wood.
sawyer.-Paris Correspondent N. Y.
Times.
Ey- An old lady told us recently that
she thought something awful must event.
ually happen, there had been so many
weddings the past winter. The old lady
was serious in her gloomy forebodings,
and we shouldn't wonder if something
squally' did follow the events above refer.
red TO.
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SHREwD ANswER.-A fellow, seeing a
farmers boy riding miserable old horse,
asked him. What's that horse out of, |
why, he's out Of condition, said the
lad, grinning.
CINCINNATI MARKET.
CINCINNATI, Sept. %.
Flour has declined TO 8.ltM M8.25