Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-31
TIE TAKING DISTRICT.


be delivered in the Supreme Court, at
Jackson, holding the Taxing District
acts to be constitutional. Such i'm.
portant news could not long be kept
within the four walls of an Office. It
spread all over town in less
than fifteen minutes. 1t was COM
municated from mouth to mouth,
it flashed over the telephones,
it broke out in isolated neighborhOods,
and uptown stores and groceries
where there had been no cOmmunica-
tion. There was a grand rejoicing.
Everybody smiled and neighbors
walked across the street in the rain to
shake hands over the good news.
There were few exceptions, of
course, but of these we need not
speak. The wires we're kept busy
between here and jackson. All the
lawyers there seemed to rush to the
telegraph Office at once, We never
saw so many special dispatches flying
about-and all one subject. We
caught few of them on the wing,
Here is one: N
JACKSON, Tenn. May 81.
Col. J. A. TAYLoR-Taxing District
acts held constitutional. Black case de-
cided for the county. W. H. CARROLL.
And here is another which is de-
cidedly enthusiastic:
JACKSON, Tenn, May 81.
G. w. HEIsKKLL-Gloria in Excelsis
All hold the repeal valid Cooper, Dead
erick and Mcfarland hold the new gov
ernment good at all points.
News never spread faster or ap-
psarea to give more general satisfac
ton. 1t gives assurance for time Of
the continuance of the best govern
ment Memphis ever had 1t means
that the efforts to secure relief for the
city were directed by intelligence, and
that this was no idle scheme Of an
hour, but thoroughly matured to ac-
complish the object intended. The
elaborate opinion read by Judge
Cooper was mastery effort.
He is conceded to be one of
the best chancery and corporation
lawyers in the United States, and his
opinion on any question of law which
he thoroughly investigates, as he has
this, will carry great weight and force
to the most cultivated legal minds Of
the country. He has national repu-
tation and would render no opinion
not based upon law and sound reason
ing. We congratulate the people of
Memphis upon further respite
from their misfortunes, and
hope that all our financial
difficulties may be adjusted at
no distant day to the satisfaction of
creditors and taxpayers, and that
Memphis may once more step forth
panOplied in strength and beauty upon
the highway to prosperity and great
nas. As an expression of the joy Of
our people one hundred guns will be
fred ou the bluff this afternoon. All
hail to ,Ile decision which makes the
repeal of the old city charter u fnality
aud the new government fixed
and permanent fact. which not
even the Supreme Court Of the
United States can interfere with Now
we have a government sure enough,
which is not dependent on any con-
tingency. Let every citizen fall into
line now and aid in sustaining this
government and making Memphis
what it ought to be, the most
healthy, attractive and hourishing
city in the South The practical
effect of this decision is, first, that
the charters of the city of Memphis
are retealed-Judge Baxter to the
contrary Notwithstanding; second,
that the Taxing District government
is valid one in all its scope; third
these questions are a lHaljty in all
courts, State and Federal, for TIE Fed
eraI courts are as fully and completely
bound by this decision as the State
courts of inferior jurisdiction, the
Supreme Court of the United States
uniformly holding that the cOnstruc
tiOn of local State statutes, by the
Supreme Courts of the several States,
are absolutely conclusive on that
court and all Federal courts, ~.