WADE
v.
WALNUT
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The Supreme Court addressed whether a section of the Illinois Constitution adopted in 1870 regulating municipal subscriptions to railroads took effect on July 2, 1870, the date the people voted for its adoption. The Court affirmed the Illinois Supreme Court's longstanding determination that the constitutional provision became effective on that date, declining to reopen the question where the state court had consistently adhered to its ruling since 1872.
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Mr. Chief Justice. Waite delivered the opinion of the court.
The only question we haves to decide in this case is, whether the Section of the,Illinois Constitution adopted in 1870, relating to “ municipal subscriptions to railroads dr private corporations,” was in force on the 6th of August, 1870. This question came before the Supreme Court of the State at the January Term, 1872, only eighteen months after the Constitution was adopted, in Schall v. Bowman (62 Ill. 321); and it was then decided that this section took effect on-the 2d of July, the day the people voted for its adoption. The opinion in the case was written by -Mr.'Justice Breese, two justices dissenting. At the September Term in the same, year the same questions came again before the court in Richards v. Donagho (66 id. 73), and the opinion was then delivered by Mr. Justice Thornton,in the following words : “ The only question presented by this record was, after mature deliberation, settled by the opinion in Schall v. Bowman. . . . Notwithstanding the able and plausible argument made ini this ease, the majority of. the court adhere to the opinion in the ease referred to above.” Afterwards, at the January Term, 1878, in Wright v. Bishop (88 id. 302), the court said: “Appellants make a very able and interesting argument against' the rulings in those cases; but we are not convinced they should be overruled.”
This court has never until now been called on to decide, the question, but in numerous cases it has assumed that the section took effect on the day fixed by the Supreme Court of the State. Town of Concord v. Portsmouth Savings Bank, 92 U. S. 625; County of Moultrie v. Rockingham Ten-cent Savings Bank, id. 631; County of Randolph v. Post, 93 id. 502; Fairfield v. County of Gallatin, 100 id. 47; Walnut v. Wade, 103 id. 683; Louisville v. Savings Bank, 104 id. 469. Under these circumstances we are not inclined to consider the question-an open one here while the Supreme Court of the State adheres to its ^present rulings. —
Judgment affirmed.
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