The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06
NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
\ Statement of Ari1Ona's Debt-Supreme
Court Decisions Miscellaneous.

man of the Senate Committee on Ter
ritories, Governor Zulick, Of Arizona, has
furnished a statement OF the Territorial
debt. The statement shows that The Terri
tory has outstanding warrants amounting TO
Sl20, ,94s, upon which il pays interest at the
rate of 10 per cent per annum. la the taou-
lated statement of bonded and floating IN
debtedness appear the following items: In
sane Asylum bonds, 100000; Celia Rivey
bridge $4,000: Apache wagon road. SD 000.
Territorial University, Sl5,G0O The indeut-
edness Of the several counties of the Terrific
~. aggregates II, ,I0i,G35. In concluding his
report Governor Zulick says: The enOr-
nous increase OF the debt by bonds and APP
prOpriations may be properly characterized
as useless and eztravagant legislation, wan
ton mlSapprOprlatiOn OF public funds to
purposes from which the people receive no
corresponding benefit The insane OF the
Territory are cared for at the Asylum AT
STOCKTON, Cal, for - per week which
is much less than we could keep
them ourselves, had we the asylum built.
We require neither university nor normal
school. The wagon, road and bridre bonds
are properly county and notterrits al cflrg-
es. The appropriations for expenses for the
last Territorial Assembly in excess of Con-
gressiOnal appropriations for that purpose
are, IN my judgment, in clear violation Of
the Federal Statute. We have debt when
all the appropriations of the last assembly
are provided for, of nearly 100000, upon
which the Territory must pay an annual in
terest of over so, 600. a result OF reckleSsneSS
and extravaganza of the legislative govern
ment."
The Register and Receiver OF Public Lands
at Pueblo, Col, reports 10 the General Land
Office that he recently had a hearing in
twenty-four ceses of illegal homestead en-
tries which had been investigated Dy special
agents OF the Department. none OF the claim
ants appearing the entries were cancelled.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
The Supreme Court to-day rendered its
decision upon the petition OF Psymaster
General Joseph II. Smith, OF tn NAV De-
partment, that a writ of prohibition be
issued restraining the Secretary OF the Navy
from further proceedings against him by
CourtMartial for Ofienses alleged 10 nave
been committed IN connection with the ad-
ministTation of his functions as Chief OF a
Bureau OF the Navy Department. The pc
tition had been denied by the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia and this
judgment is affirmed by the Supreme Court
of the United States. The Court also rem
dered the following decisions:
No. -. Herbert Presser, plaintiff. in error
against the State OF Illinois; in error 10 the
Supreme Court of Illinois. The principle
involved in the right of a State TO prevent
the armed assembage of It's citizens and
their parading as military companies when
nyt organized as such under the laws of the
State or Os the United State. The court af-
firms the judgment OF the lower tribunal,
holding that the State may prevent such as
semolages. To deny this right, il says,
would Je to deny the right 10 disperse as
semblages organized for seditiOn and treason.
and the right to suppress mobs bent on riot.
q.
nor and State officers Of colorado, Appeal
from the Circuit Courts of the United States
Tor the District of Colorado, Brown gave 70
the Territory of Colorado ten acres Of land
IN Denver upon which 10 erect capitol build
ings. The Territory became State before
the erection was undertaken. The effort is
now made TO restrain the State from taking
possession OF this land on the theory that il
was conveyed L. the Territory and not 10 the
state OfCOlOrado and that the Territory did
not comply with the terms of is convey
ance. The Supreme Court holds that the
title TO all the property held by the Terri
tory passed to the State The judgment Of
the lower court to this effect is affirmed with
costs. Opinion by Justice Harlan
No. 95.-The port of Mobile against Henry
Watson The city of Mobile in It's corporate
name issued bonds TO aid in the construc-
tlOn OF railroad. and maue provision for a
special annual tax to be applied 70 the bonds.
The Legislature of Alabame in 1879 passed
an act 10 vacate and annul the charter Of the
city OF Mobile and on the same day passed
another act 20 incorporate the port OF No.
bile, comprising a specific party of the terri
tory and all the taxable property included in
the limits Oi the city. Watson obtained
judgment against the port, but no property
was mentioned upon which 70 levy. The
authorities denied that they were the sue
cessOrs Of the city and bound for the city's
debts. The supreme Court is of the opinion
that the port is the legal successor OF the
city, and liable for its debts.
No. I'D. John VI. Stone and others COM
posing tie Railroad Commission of the State
of Mississippi, against the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company. Appeal from the Circuit
Court OF the District Of Mississippi. This is
one of the Mississippi Railroad Commission
cases IL was brought by the Farmers Loan
and Trust Company, OF New York, to enjoin
the Railroad Commission OF Mississippi from
enforcing against the Mobile and Ohio Rail
road Company the provision of the statute
OF Mississippi passed in 1884, TO provide
for the regulation of freight and passenger
rates railroads in that State and for other
purposes. The statute declares that railroads
in the state are public highways, over which
all persons have equal rights, and makes
any discrimination in rates a penal
ofense. 1t further provides for
the appointment Of Board Of
Commissioners, and cOnfers upon it the
of exercising a certain degree of supervision
over the road. The companies are required
to make the necessary reports to the Com
mission; the officers OF the road are made
liable TO fine tor non-cOmp. p.ancc with the
provisions of the act, which fine may be col
lected by or through the courts. The Circuit
Court rendered q decree allowing the injunc-
tiOh and from that decree the Commissioners
appealed. The argument in support of the
decree is that the statute under which the
Commissioners are to act impairs the charter
of the company; that it denies the company
the equal protection OF the laws, and
deprives it of its property without
the process of law; that il cOufers both
legislative and judicial powers upon the Com
mission, and is thus repugnant to the Con-
stitution of Mississippi, and that IL is void on
its face by reason of its inconsistency and
uncertainty. The Supreme Court finds that
the charter OF the company contains 10 con-
tract the obligations Of which are N any