In re Schneider for Writ of Habeas Corpus

*296By the Court,

Watson, C. J. Lord, J., concurring.

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court refusing to discharge the appellant from custody upon a writ of habeas corpus directed to the chief of police of the city of Portland.

It is impossible to notice all the questions raised in the argument of the case, in an opinion of reasonable length, and I shall therefore restrict my examination to such as appear fairly open to controversy.

That the legislature has the power, under the state constitution, to invest the subordinate municipal governments with control of the traffic in…