Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-12-28
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~ Gunflomen who undertook TO pre-
= ueasurs Tor ths government Of
m our etate. :AvInI failed In their
o1oumpG, .oro1gh thD interfsrence OF
GuDzoourt, ss-cngaged In another.
n 6 have learned what was the
X IN ths flst bill, In the opin.
- souft they say that the objec.
- fhot they made too many classes
D1u end that they introduced
ID organization into it. So now they
- the classes OF cities to three
u1y under 100 600, and under and over
D0o; end omit regulation OF the
~ MAKES Philadelphia . class by
~ !; and puts Pittsburg and Allegheny
y ~ second class, IL the latter town
o1hs 100 900 that abe claims. All the
oso q N run into the third class and
. ~ 3 big covey OF cities Of all sorts,
- and description, from the town not
NJ IT. borough swaddling clothes to
66tity Of respectable age and size.
III Al this may be good and wise. We
fhot criticising the merit Of the scheme
now, because We have not particu'
1G1 exAmined its provisions and looked
"a IN. conditions. It may be that oil
- from 100, 600 down to 10000 or less
g tyOpulation may be properly governed
~ ~ same laws. But II 90 It strikes US
{ - the same laws may as justly apply
4 y The city Of any size; since there is
S3Uly - great difference In the condi.
49, prevailing In cities OF 10000 and
IN, 900 population, as in those of 100000
!Sond !, 900 600.
X Abe supreme court seem to have stalled
- the seven classes made In the original
&ai, but TO be willing TO pass the three
4oonG1es In the present bill. We judge 30
oceuse the men who are working up the
4 nsosure appear 10 have had the advice
h D. the court. The public has had no such
advice. 1t was informed long ago, through
81 aeclaration In o decision made In a case
EtASen up from this city, that the muni-
I elpal oct had been declared to be
ydnconstisutional But the decision in
which the opinion is declared, has
nover been handed down. We are
neogmed by TIE private declarations Of
Nnoono OF the msnbers Of the supreme
Il o6xt, that the decision was purposel!
U5thheld, while the fact that 1t had beer
b 1nn6e was purposely disclosed In the Ian
Il 0aGtsr case; and that this wa
oone because the court did not wisl
i - ssmbArrass the cities that we're being
1 uovszned under the new law, by taking
s away their government, until the legis
i 1Ature should meet and have chance 4
\. eueorm the law according TO the court
Sisw Of the constitution and 1t is to b
onsumed that the same complaisance In
g Gnoed the supreme court TO advise tn
3n0 who are getting up the new bill, as :
IS last what was wrong with the old, thai
i lhey might 6x 1t up to suit the court.
X We do not admire this performance o
ohe court; and 1t does not inspire u
4 "a . deep confidence that 1t mas taken
lnogfect view OF the constitution.
n ooutt that can make q decision and nc
Ake 1t, ct one and the same time, HI
Y mntirely too much agility to be weighte
0ovn with a profound comprehension {
1he constitution and the laws. When th
Do0rt made that decision, as 1t NJ
IS 1oanced that 1t had In the Lar
oesser case, II was the law, an
= became Its duty to promptly declare i
ehorgh It caused the skies to fall. TT
oocsequences were none Of its business
md that 1t should think they were an
should seek to swim around then
shows how much 1t tends to believe tn,
~ duty is.to make law, and how hal
= II for 1t to simply decide it
md It shows how 1t has come to decit
that it is constitutional 10 make thr'
H Glasses Of cities and unconstitutional
make seven. 1t thinks that seven are Il
h many and that three are enough; br
y That was for the legislature to ga.
III Yes, says the supreme court but the
y the legislature may make hundre
classes and one for each city. And II
81 nay make three, what is to stop 1t frol
mating hundred Not the wording
1hs constitution; but its.meaning, as Il
Supreme court reads 1t. And such ma
y it meaning but II its trainers hay
not aaid 20, wherein is the authority {
ths court to SO say ? Its power is simp
md only to read, not to amend, the la,
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