St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-23
It's Constitutionality Is AZ
firmed by the United States
Supreme Court.
Eye-Openers Are Now at a
Premium in the Hawk
eye State.
Surgeon General Moore Sub
mits Some Statistics--Ab-
erdeen's New Bank.

Special to the Globe
WESTINGHOUSE Sept. 22.-The supreme
court to-day rendered a decision in the
celebrated case of John S. Kidd, plaintiff
In error, VS.. L. E. Pearson and S. j..
Longhran. Kidd was an Iowa distiller
who claimed that under the state prohi-
bition law the state officers could not
prevent the manufacture of Intoxicating
liquor for export into another state. He
sought to restrain the state officers from
closing up his distillery. He claimed
that he was licensed by the board Of
supervisors of Polk county to sell liquor
for mechanical, medicinal, culinary
and sacramental purposes during
the period of the alleged viola
tions of the law. His business
in the sale of liquor for other purposes
without the state he claimed came I'M
der the head of interstate commerce,
comfortable only by congress, and the
state law if it sought to prevent that
commerce came in conflict with the con-
stitutiOn of the United States. He also
claimed that the statute legallZed the
manufacture of alcohol for certain pur-
poses, and thus recognized the fact that
it was legitimate article of commerce
and not per Sc nuisance. Judge La
mar read the opinion of the court,
which was long and comprehensive.
He said that it was of the
genius and character of the
whole government that its action
should apply to those external things
which affected more than one of the
states, but not to those things which
were completely within state. The
manufacture of liquor within the state
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that state because the manufacturer in
tended exporting it. 1t was clearly
within the power of the state to regu-
late the manufacture of liquor within
its limits, whether for domestic OF for
foreign consumption. The petitioner,
said the court, made grave error in
saying that the statute authorized the
manufacture of alcohol. The law con-
tanned sweeping prohibition and all
that saved it from complete abolition
were the exceptions in favor of alcohol
used for mechanical, medicinal. culin-
airy and sacramento purposes. The de-
ciSiOn of the supreme court of Iowa is
affirmed
A BRACE OF IMPORTANT DECISIONS.
The court also to-day rendered a de-
ciSion in the celebrated cOlor-blindneSS
case. The Nashville, Chattanooga q
st. Louis Railway company was lined III
the state courts of Alabama for employ
ing a conductor who had not been ex-
amined for blindness, as required
by the laws of the state. The company
sought to prove the aw,unconstitutiOnal
The supreme court, through Justice
Field. hold that if, as has been pre-
viously affirmed by the court, the state
has the right to examine railroad en-
ployes for general fitness, it may also
examine them as to their fitness in one
particular. The judgment Of the lower
court is affirmed. In the case of The
Western Union Telegraph Company VS..
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the
United States supreme court to-day re-
versed the decision of the lower court.
The commonwealth levied tax On tele-
grams from points in the state to points
without the state, and, in fact. on all
business passing over the company's
lines in the state. The court, through
Chief Justice Fuller, holds that the
commonwealth was not entitled to col
lect except for messages wholly within
the state.