1900. ] HASTINGS—POLICE POWER OF THE STATE. 515 
wins at this end as completely as it was overthrown at the other. 
That case held that the police power of the state of Iowa under 
this same law could not interfere with the bringing of intoxicating 
liquors into the state by attaching any conditions whatever to such 
coming. ‘That is to say: Citizens of other states had an indefeasi- 
ble right, as against the state authorities, to find a selling place for 
such articles in Iowa. By this case the making and taking to other 
states and there selling the same articles is held to be under the 
control of the state authorities. That is, those citizens of other 
states who have so sacred a right to sell liquors in Iowa that all the 
state’s authority may not even affect it, have no right to buy any 
there for any purpose and the state may absolutely forbid its being 
made there for them, all simply because Congress is authorized by 
the federal constitution to regulate commerce. 
In 'Kimmish vs. Ball the police power prevailed again over the 
commerce clause. We have seen in ?Railroad Company vs. Husen 
a Missouri statute forbidding the introduction of southern cattle 
during the warm months set aside because it made no distinction 
between sound and diseased stock. In Kimmish zs. Ball nearly 
the same law of the state of Iowa is upheld upon some distinctions. 
It had been discovered that there was a real danger to be appre- 
hended from healthy southern cattle during the warm portions of 
the year. 
In * Minneapolis & St. Paul Railway Company ws. Beckwith, in 
reaffirming that a railway company which has failed to fence its 
line may be held liable for twice the value of stock injured by 
passing trains, the court asserted once more that corporations were 
protected as persons by the fourteenth amendment, and that the 
amendment does not limit the subject or extent of the state’s 
police power. In the case of *Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. Co. as. 
Alabama the case of Smith against Alabama was reaffirmed, with 
the additional feature that requiring railways to pay the expenses 
of examinations of employees under a state statute is not an un- 
constitutional deprivation of property. In °Eilenbecker vs. Dis- 
trict Court, Plymouth county, the Iowa liquor laws came back 
again. Eilenbecker had been in prison for contempt in not obey- 
ing an injunction against his selling intoxicating liquors. A rule 
1729 U. S., 217 (Jan., 1889). 47128 Os, S:,190s 
295 U.S., 465 (1877). 5 184 U. S., 31 (1890). 
3729 U. S., 26 (1889). 
