1900.] HASTINGS—POLICE POWER OF THE STATE, 468 
is shown by the fact that no new attempts were made toward the 
adoption of amendments that should give positive as well as nega- 
tive power to the general government over matters of local police. 
The conclusions of the court in that respect were never changed, 
though, as was to be expected, when the court finally came to de- 
cide upon what is in the amendments, rather than what is not, 
more was found in them than their supporters in the first disap- 
pointment thought was left after these decisions. ‘The court, after 
first holding that the amendments had caused no sweeping change 
in the relations of the state and federal governments, proceeded to 
develop the meaning of them with results that we shall presently 
see. 
