Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-30
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Especial Telegram to the Globe.l
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-In the supreme
court to-day the four cases of Robert E.
jenkins VS.. the International bank of Chi
capo. a decision was rendered in accordance
with the decision of the Illinois supreme
court. In the bond case of the township
of Chessoming, Mich, VS.. Carpenter, from
the northern district of Michigan, the de-
cision of the circuit court was affirmed. In
the case of the Chicago & Alton road vs..
the Virgins Ferry company, from the east
ern district of Missouri, the decision of the
lower court, rendering the case to the state
court, was affirmed.
BREWERS BURDENS.
Mr.. Morrison to-day presented
in the house a bill relieving
the bearers of some of the burdens which
the present law taxes imposes upon them.
The bill so amends the law as to lessen the
amount of bond required of brewers, and
so arrange that they will not have to be 80
often renewed as under the present law.
| THE WHISKY BOND EXTENSION.
Messrs. Buttarworth and Kelly had a
conference this morning on the
whisky bond bill, and Mr.. Kelly
agreed to call a meeting of the
ways and means committee tomorrow at
10 o'clock to allow Mr.. Butterworth to
present the claims of the whisky bill for
! immediate action.
THE wHHK IN CONGRESS-.
Tha
| devoted chiefly to the discussion of the
tariff. The senate will be occupied with
the tariff bill to the exclusion of all other
| business after the morning hour. 1t is the
intention to hold continuous meetings well
into the night. There will be long de-
bate on the sugar schedule which is next
in succession. An effort is to be made
this week to pass the bill for worlds
cotton exposition in 1884, besides the
tariff bill.
MIsoRGENATIoN.
The case of Tony Pace vs.. the state of
Alabama was also decided by the supreme
court to-day. Pace was indicted for iv-
ing in state of adultery with Mary Ann
Cox, a white woman. The statutes of Ala
bama provide that if any white person and
negro intermarry or live in adultery with
each other, each of them must upon con-
viction be imprisoned in the penitentiary
for not less then two nor more than seven
years. Similar statutes exist in major
1ty of the states. The question was what
is the extent of the power of a
state as to regulating marriage among its
citizens and Furnishing adultery between
those who are forbidden to intermarry. 1t
was argued that the law is violative of the
Fourteenth amendment because it makes
the punishment of adultery greater when
ever committed by those whose marriage
is not permitted by law than in ordinary
cases. The authorities show that such q
distincting is within the power Of the leg
islature and is consistent with public
| policy. There is no distinction of race
| whatever in the state for the prohibition,
and the punishment falls equally on the
white and the black. The supreme court
declines to interfere with the
states in their power to regu-
late marriage and punish criminal
adultery, and hold that as the punishment
was alike to both races, it did not come
within the provisions of the amend
ment.
VARIOUS NOTES.
A direct descendent of Israel Putnam
and Mrs. Hayes, beautiful sister of Mar
garet Fuller, are among the distinguished
ladies now in Washington. The latter is
staying at Waverly's and the former is
| visiting Mrs. John Sherman. Mrs. Sher-
man also has guest, Miss Perkins, very
pretty young girl from Ohio, cousin of
Miss Putnam, though they first met after
coming here. Both received with Mrs.
Sherman on Thursday.
The fish commission is arranging very
elaborate display for the international
exhibition at London next May.
Senator Malone makes no pretensions
to craftsmanship, and he cannot work his
machine half so well here as he did in
| Virginia.
Miller and Lapham hate any allusion to
Conkling worse than poison, and some one
or other of the Democrats in the senate is
always prodding them with "reminiscences
of the ex-senator.
Gen. Sheridan has accepted an invi-
tation from District Attorney
| Corkhill to be present at a
dinner to be given here to Gen. Sherman
to celebrate his sixty third birthday and
his retirement from the army sometime
during the present year. A friend of Gen.
Sherman says: ''The friendship-I should
say affection-existing between Gen. Sher-
man and Gen. Sheridan is closer than the
world supposes. They correspond with
each other like school-boy lovers, and are
in the closest accord in every relation. So
chivalrous is Sherman in his regard for
Sheridan that he asks, I understand,
that the law be amended SO that
1 the rank of general especially created
for Sherman at the time of Grants retire
ment, may not go out with him, put that
it may descend to Sheridan. The dinner
bids fair to be one of the most enjoyable
of the season. Among the guests will be
Gen. Grant, Gen. Sheridan, Justices Waite.
Miller and Horton and e1-Secretary
Blaine.
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