The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-05-21
did Prohibition Become a Law.

piii ~ lDliHRH the great pHfIIdm-
Unitarian declared there never was Il
| las made tilat III coach and six
could Lot b. driven through Iowa
lawyers may never Lc able 10 reach
;lie higii water mark OF coachman-
ship within the possibilities OF
iOiConner,s estimate, not from q lack
Of skilled chariotcering on the part
If Iowa lawyers. but from an inca
pacity of her Legislators to place o
law upon the statute books in legal
form.
Tie Council Bluffs Nonparcil OF
Frida. hcra1ds Il discovery made,
that raises doubt rs the passages OF
the law under which the liquor pros
ecntions are proceeding. The fol-
lowing article gives the status OF the
| case.
Considerable discussion has
arisen and no small degree Of anx
iefy is felt over Il question that has
| been raised in the courts in refer
encc to the prohibition law passed
| by the last legislature. 1t is claimed
that the journal Of the lower house
contains no record OF the passage OF
| the law. and it is held that this
omission is not only fatal to the law
but completely annuls the injunction
law which is a part of it. A careful
perusal OF the house journal fails to
show the record Of the passage OF
the law. On page 146, laws OF twen-
ticth general assembly, chapter LAB,
! III. F.5l6I, we find the following act:
i he IT ENACTED By the general assembly Of the
/ state Of iowa. THAT section 1925, OF the Code,
be and the same = hereby repealed and the
following enacted III lieu thereof.
IL
4 In the house journal, 1884, page
$50. is the following entry:
s. Mr.. speaker. ! am directed TO inform your
honorable body that the senate has passed the
following house bills without amendment.
Substitute for house Tile No. 5l6a A. act TO
amend charterG, title II. Of the Code. relating
20 Intoxicating liquors. anu 70 PROVIDE ad-
, ions OF the same and the amendments thereto.
Again, on page GIG, we find:
House file No. 5iGts. an act to amend chapter
g. title II. Of the code, relating 10 intoxicating
liquors. ana To provide additional penalties for
, violations OF the provisions OF the said chapter,
and the amendments thereto.
And on page GIG of the same jour-
nal occurs the following:
Mr. speaker. yoar committee on enrolled bills
respectfully report that they have this day pre-.
/ scented to the governor for his approval thu
, following bills; House files Nos. ST., 17G, 40
5lbs. and as3. House tile 70 .ials Was sub
stltuie iof house Ies Nos. To-, 1s3 21S, At. and
liz.
. Now. II the journal be properly in.
dsxed this toutside OF the index is
! all that is recorded concerning the
, passage Of the law.
10 be sure that we were correct In
/ reference to the house journal en-
tries. we telegraphed the secretary
OF state yesterday and received the
! following reply:
. DIES MoIsFs. May s.-NoNPAREIL: House i'll
5l6,s1 Sa substitute for house file los, 1913, etc
See house journal pages 4O2, 453, SCI, $685. 5s1
: FRANK D. JACKSON,
secretary Of State.
II the courts should hold that til,
!, law is not properly passed. then i
= follows that the old law for which
! this was IA substitute remains inact
It's the act 516I was intended as ;
substitute thereof.
7 1t would be a grim and ghostl.
/, revenge upon the fiercely AGGRESSIVE
! enarts of certain prohihitionists
: who with IL despotio engine calle'
= an injunction have scrupled not +
= exhibit TN intolerance that eyel
= yornnemada. might have hesitatc'
4 to father, III the palniiest days Of tn
d inquisition. True temperance, lik
y true religion. has at times been pu
= to the blush through the folly Of me-
: who wear its livery, who claim t
i approach the Lord, with q vote
crying ..in thy name we have don
4 wondcrous works" but who will We
:. hear tho awful sentence "dcpar
Y from me yc workers ct iniQuity,"