Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-11
Bonds Court Commission Constitution.
To the Editor of the Globe.

Bonds Court-Cont'fttsStOft - Constitution.
To the Editor of the Globe.
We are supposed to dwell under and
owe allegiance to constitution creating
the separate and Independent depart
ments of State government; the acts Of
these, to be valid, must not infract the
fedenl charter None can accept office,
swear allegiance, then ignore the sover-
eighty, be it car, State or constitution
AS the judicial power extends to all cases
in law and equity arising under the con-
stitution, | am not able to believe that a
commission or tribunal, unknown to that
instrument, can exercise any power oUer
it especially, in so far as to declare it
unconstitutional, not even the clause re-
curing the question of payment of the
so called railroad bonds, to be submitted
to vote of the people. This bond bust
ness passeth all understanding; to be
valid, all. acts pertaining thereto must
be done in manner unknown to the
law or in violation. of it, and in utter dis
regard of the wishes of those expected to
foot the bill. A Territorial legislature,
possessing no power or authority to
do so, aided certain parties in furthering
scheme whereby they involved and i'm
poverished the future State.
In the fullness of time, as an aggrava-
ton of the original offense, State legis-
lature, disregarding the expressed will of
it's constituents, would so mulct the peo-
pie, that these bonds, like the decree pro-
nounced upon Adam for transgression in
the garden, may curse the State evermore
These unauthorized acts are perpetrated
we are told, in vindication of the honor
of this constituency, thus:
'They whom he loveth he chasteneth. {"
These self constituted indicators of
the honor of the State, may, in after time,
be remembered by misrepresented con-
stituency, after the manner in which the
great apostle to the Gentiles remembered
Alexander the copper smith. By the
managers of this scheme, courts, insti-
tuted for the purpose of judging accord
ing to the law, are to be so disrupted as to
determine contrary to the law.
That a portion of the constitution
may be declared void, the aid
of commission is invoked, the
supreme court, being untitled for,
or inadequate to the task. Much of the
time and expense incident to the late
Legislative session were devoted to this
subject. Why ask, at such cost, an opin-
ion or decision, admitted in advance. to
be invalid?
Such legislative extravaganza and
judicial trifiing are reproach to any
people, 1t is reported that our supreme
judges decline to take part in this play of
Money" even if there be millions in
it." This is what might have been ex-
pected from men of their approved learn
ing and prob1ty. 1t remains to be seen
whether there be district Judges willing
| to rush in where wise men will net tread
| AS it is not probable that our honored and
| able executive will ask district Judge to
do that which the supreme bench deem
to be either illegal or improper, the State
may be spared further exhibition of this
farce, at least, while decked in its pres
ent legal absurdities
"Take any other form but this" Sup
pose, Mr.. Justice Dogberry, the legisla-
tive commission, if there be one.
the Methodist conference OF
Baptist church, shall illuminate
an opinion, in all respects satisfactory to
the bondholder, what of it? 1t were better
that they attempt to count the Pleiades,
Did the adjustment bill become Law
when signed by the governor, or does il
remain in allegiance until a commission
shall pass upon the validity of the con-
| stitution?
These bond agitators have evidently