The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-22
IOWA
DIPsoMANIAc LAW ATTACKED
Consttutionality Is Questioned on Sew
eral Innortant Points.

constitutionality Is Questioned on Sew
erat Important Points.
DIES MONIES, IOWA-In habeas cor
pus proceeding brought before the SUI
preme court to secure the release Of Mrs
Matte Robinson of this city. the ques-
ton Of the constitutionality of the dipso-
maniac law passed by the last general as
sembly Is raised. The law is attacked on
several points. It is maintained the law
assumes the person charged with being an
inebriate Is either insane or criminal.
and if that is the case the person so
charged is entitled to be examined by an
insanity commission or to be tried by a
jury, whereas the law only makes pro-
vision for a hearing before a judge of the
district court Other alleged weaknesses
of the law are pointed out.
If the measure is declared unconstitu-
tional the hundred and more inebriates at
Mount Pleasant and Cherokee hospitals
will have to be turned out. Mrs Robinson
has been adjudged an inebriate and or
dered sent to Mount Pleasant She Is the
first woman to be sentenced for excessive
use of liquor, though several have been
sent to the inebriate departments for use
of morphine. -.
Tart Democratic Pamphlet.
The democratic state central commit
tee Is getting out large numbers of a
pamphlet entitled "The Iowa Idea as Elk
pounded by Cumn1ins. Shaw, Dolliver,
Henderson, Cousins, Curtis and Others
At the foot Of the first page is Speaker
Henderson's famous remark, Let the
new light shine"
The pamphlet is filled with utterances
of leading republicans Of the state on the
tariff and trusts and on the Iowa idea,
and is intended to show that however
Governor Cummins and his friends may
talk, the entire Iowa delegation will OPP
pose tariff reform if sent back to con-
greSS.
Second Real Battle Ground.
The second district has become the bat
tie ground of the Iowa campaign. The re-
publicans are filling the district with good
speakers and leading republican speakers
who have up to now been on the reserve
list are being called out. Such men as
ex-Congressman Lane, julius fischer of
Davenport, and Frank Wells of Clinton,
are now taking the stump and nothing
will be left undone to defeat Judge Wade
and elect William Hoffman,
Governor Shaw will spend much of his
time the week before the campaign ends
in the second. His Iowa itinerary has
just been announced. Oct. 49, he will
speak in the afternoon at Marshalltown;
Oct. 20, at Marengo and Davenport; Oct
80, at Iowa City; Oct. 81, at Columbus
Junction and Washington, and Nov. /, at
Knoxville and Abba.
meeting at Des Moines will also be
addressed by Shaw and presided over by
Cummlns. Judge Prouty and Lafayette
Young will also be speakers
End Of Money strIneency.
State Bank Examiner Whelan is out
IN a statement in which he says the
money stringency in Iowa is now practic-
! ally over and the banks are not worrying
Inc closeness of the New York money
| market was beginning to be felt consider
ably two weeks ago, he says, but there is
no apprehension now and business is
| normal again. He says the bankers gen
orally approve Secretary Shaw's policy in
permitting depositary banks to provide
other good security than United States
bonds to secure government deposits