Omaha daily bee., 1882-12-22

minutes, but occupied but twenty five.
In opening, he said Lord Coke had
remarked that souls we're only created
by God; that corporations we're created
by the king, and therefore corpora.
tions had 40 soul. No such rights,
he asserted, belonged to corporations
as belonged TO private psriiea, for
corporations were creatures and ser.
wants of the state and could not by
any torturing be regarded as human
beings. The right of tax was the soul
Of legislative right. There was no good
ground for any lawyer to say that a
state did not have a right to its own
method of taxation, and to collect its
own taxes for its maintenance. The
law of the state gave these corpora.
tons notice of their indebtedness and
liability to taxation. They had their
day in court, and because they did
not accept the notice they had no
right to come here and try to get the
court to give them another day. Rail.
road property was q class of property
that owes its life to the favor of the
state. 1t is evident, said Brewster,
that this railroad has no other ground
to rest Its case upon except the
amendment to the constitution; the
surrender of all other and their
appeal to that shows It,
yet the court must hold that this does
them no good, In that 1t does not ap.
ply to their case. Dwelling further
on the point that there was no FEEDER.
al franchise involved, Brewster con.
cluded. As he WAS about finishing, q
funny incident occurred, Conkling and
Judge Sanderson sat immediately be-.
hind Brewster. One Of them made q
remark of some kind In regard to the
point made by Brewster. The remark
was loud enough for him to hear 1t.
he turned, facing Conkling, and said
to the court, the learned adversaries
had taken a parting shot at him, but
that it was In the back. Conkling,
smiling, said, "Shaks not your CORY
locks AZ me, thou canst not say 1 did
it," Brewatsr said 1t was between
them both. The court smiled, q very
unusual thing.
RAILROAD LAND GRANTS.
Judge Holman, who leads the OPP
position in ths house to the Pacific
railroads, says that the next reHsion
of congress will declare all unearned
land grants of those roads forfeited to
the governms nt He says also that
owing to the organized strength Of the
various roads here operating against
legislation the present congress will
not bs able to accomplish that result.
The book trade to-day adopted q
resolution inviting the various p;otec-
tive associations Of the country of a
kindred nature to join in demanding a
hearing before the committee on ways
and means of the house of representa-
ti-es of the United States. The man.
ufacturers of pig iron, bar iron, plate
and sheet, aud other kindstf iron in
states east Of the Alleghanies decidedto
submit a statement to congress express
ing satisfaction at the appointment
OF the tariff commission. and contin-
uing, "while not approving all the
changes proposed by ths commission
we believe that in the main such re.
auctions will NOT ,paralyzs tho indus.
tliss 60 be affected " Ih- -
further respectfully represent that the
development and prosperity of the
leading manufacturing industries of
the country are very greatly inter.
rupted by the feeling of uncertainty
which prevails in the public mind
concerning the action that is to be
taken by congress upon the question
of tariff :ev tsiOn."