People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1895 — IOWA MULCT LAW. [ARTICLE]

IOWA MULCT LAW.

St rite Supreme Court Decide? the treasure Is (onet'tu tonal. Des Heines, lowa, April 3.—ln the case of the state of lowa vs. J. .1 Forkner and VZ. M. Moore, involving the mulct liquor law, the Supreme court yesterday held the law to be constitutional. It was insisted first that the act was unconstitutional because the title does not sufficiently set forth the purpose es the law. This point is overruled. It was argued that the law gave to voters of certain cities power to abrogate a prohibitory law, a power which the legislature can not delegate. The court answers that the mulct law is a general law, applicable to all communities. The last poin raised was that the law is unconstitutional because it grants to people of localities the pardoning power. The court says the law does not remit any fines or forfeitures, for none is imposed. Judge Hinn filed a lengthy dissenting opinion.