...Adirondack R. Co., 160 NY 225, '54 NE 689, affirmed 176 US 335, 20 S. Ct. 460, 44 L. Ed. 492, as follows : "The power of taxation, the police power, and the...them. They are not conferred by the Constitution, hut exist because the state exists, and they are essential to its existence. They are not rights reserved,...