IOWA. 



IRON AND STEEL. 



533 



State in the military Service to vote at certain Elec- 

 tions," are not inconsistent with Section 1, Article 2, of 

 the Constitution of 1857, for the reason that they per- 

 mit such electors to cast their votes at polls opened 

 and conducted beyond the limits of the county and 

 State, of which they claim to be residents. 



The revenues and expenses of the State for 

 the past two years, embracing the war and de- 

 fence fund, were as follows : 



EECEIPTS. 



court of the 8th Judicial District of the State, 

 Judge Isbell. The court said : 



We see no force in any of the objections to the con- 

 stitutionality of the act except this, whether our consti- 

 tution requires a personal presence of the voter within 

 the county of his residence, for the last sixty days, in 

 order to vote. We think the whole question narrowed 

 down to this, and the only clause of the Constitution 

 bearing upon it, except by remote inference, is that 

 contained in Art. 2, sec. 1, which provides that " every 

 white male citizen of the United States, of the age of 



twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of i61. . 



this State six months next preceding the election, and Nov ' 4 Bala ? ce in tl > Treasury, of 



of the county in which he claims his vote sixty days, BaK^Cfen^.rf * 8> 



shall be entitled to vote at all elections which now or war and defence fund ... 24,62993 



hereafter may be authorized by law." That the affirm- " 1 



ative description of a voter contained in this clause " " Balance of both funds in 



implies a negative as to all not coming within it we Treasury $52,609.06 



have no doubt. Otherwise the Legislature could have Amount received on account of State 



struck out the word " white" without a submission to A^T^? U T g ,, tw ? e W 866 ' 816 ' 62 



Ttr e j j.i_ -ii. ii_ Amount received on account of the 



the people We must not confound the voter with the war and defence fund duri the 



person of the voter. A voter as denned by the clause two years 527,852.15-1,446,837.88 



represents a complex idea made up of several less DISBURSEMENTS 



complex. The word combines the idea of a white per- Amount id out for redemption - of ' 



son a male a citizen of the United States a resi- warrants and interest and appor- 



dent of the State of Iowa for six months next preced- tionment of railroad tax on ac- 



ing the election, and a resident of the county, in which count of State revenue $695,097.51 



he claims his vote, for sixty days. Is not the claiming Amount paid out for redemption of 



the vote in the county of his residence as essential to warrants and interest on account 



tVio nprfpr-t idpi nf a vntpr i thit VIP hp whitp? Tmp * war an(1 defence fund 710,986.22-1,406,088.13 



Lea ot a voter as tnat be be white Irue, Leaving ba]ance ln Treasury of State 



the incidents of citizenship, residence in the county, revenue, Nor. 2d, 1863 . $40,75410 



and the claiming his vote therein, do not inhere in the 



person of the voter, as do those of age, sex, and color. The war and defence funds were derived as 



But do they not equally inhere in the voter by force of follows, to November 1st, 1863 : 



the constitutional description ? While the primary or _, ^ n ^,, annn 



.eading ; object of the section may be to def J who slall ^^^^^-"IS^ 



enjoy the right of suSrage, instead of where he shall . Up s . war expenses refunded.. 100,000.60 



exercise the right, it is to our mind clear that in de- " all other sources 9,018.12 



scribing the voter, an incident is attached to him, 



which as necessarily limits the place of the enjoyment Total receipts $688,621.05 



of the right to the county of his residence (that is, re- Excess of warrants issued over amount 



quiring him to claim his vote there), as though it had of pt* 184,109.13 



been the primary object of the section to determine |g^2 739 jg 



where the right should be exercised. If this is so, it is _.. , , . , , , 



of little consequence whether the end is attained by Warrants have been issued and charged to 



attaching such incident to the description of the voter, this fund as follows : 



or whether it be effected by a separate title, headed, Amt, issued prior to NOT. 4th 1861... $233,565.43 



" Where the right of suffrage shall be exercised," and " from Nov. 4th, 1861, to 



aseparate section declaring, " Any person entitled to Nov.lst,1863 689,168.85 



vote shall claim his vote in the county of his residence 



for the last sixty days." We conclude that the limit- T^ 1 warrants issued $872,729.28 



ing the field for the exercise of the right to the county The State debt, in December, 1862, was $1,- 



in which it is claimed is a material Feature of the de- 199 oq TT, ft number nf national bnnkq nr 



scription of a voter by the clause. We can but believe ' 2 4/"-; ^ nun 



the clause here mentioned is an actual personal claim, ganized in Iowa m 1863, was seven, with a cap- 

 in contradistinction to an ideal, or (if such a thing is ital of $400,000. 



possible) legal claim. Believing the clause requires a The valuation and taxes of the State of Iowa 



voter to claim his vote in the county of his residence, -nroro no fnllnwa 



11,1 . , i i ii i i *V Gi t? tlo AtJ-LlV/ \V D 



we must hold such as were cast outside illegal, and, 



therefore, reject them. Acres of land 28,336,345. Value *1.8, 



J Town property " 22,992,2.9 



An appeal was taken from this decision to Personal " " 82,463,106 



the Supreme Court and with two other cases Total va i uati on $167,108,974 



came before that body. The court held that : state tax, 2 mills 384,218 



The Constitution, as applied to the legislative de- During the year two regiments of infantry 



partment of the Government, is a restriction and not and Qne of cava l ry completed their organiza- 



a crant of power, and it is competent for the Leeisla- , . , . , , , i~ 



tnre to prescribe the qualifications of electors, anl the tlon > which had been Commenced previously, 

 time, place, and manner of exercising the elective and in addition, twenty-four regiments of m- 

 franchise, when not expressly prohibited from so do- fantry, five regiments of cavalry, and one bat- 

 ing, or when the prohibition is not implied from some tery, had enlisted for three years, 

 express prohibition of the Constitution. rprvKT A\m eTTTTT Avn^nrr fho -inner rA 



Sect. 1, Art. 2, of the Constitution of 1857, defines l ^^ A ^ S JJ ^ L - Among the most 

 only the qualifications of an elector, and does not pre- cent statements of facts and principles of 11 

 scribe the place of exercising the elective franchise, as a est in connection with the subjects of the work- 

 test of qualification. The power to fix the place and i n g of iron and steel, the composition of the 

 manner of its exercise is left with the Legislature f t tl j ^ processe s of maim- 



1 he provisions of an act approved September llth, - = , . ..,. , . r ,. .. j 



1862, entitled "an Act to amencl Title 4, of the Revision facture, their qualities, their application^, and 



of 1860, so as to enable the qualified Electors of the the modes of protecting structures and articles 



