Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-01-08
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"A TAHoAs11R. JANUAar :, lNs. |.
~ OoartS Del1vsraace II Sllk.
- oupgeme court Of the state has
oRd 4 Philadelphia In their new
oownn, under The new Chief Justice
-, ,WAooo new wife was present to 80
~ ~ boooved looked In his robe. And
1GwVaux We also present to admire,
- declare his JOY that be he'd lived to
4ths day. when the judges had
oehod n end stationed themselves ct |
- ~ chain. topped with owls heads, |
" ~ crisr had announced the presence
e ~ honorable the chief justice and
&DCDotAte justices, when the audience
<1oo1 up; and when the chief justice had
oWed and Ill had sat down, the
- gowns were fairly started on
@Aoar way towards increasing the dig
1I1ov Of the court and covering up its pos
49, Isanneo. In their new spparel the
3o6e1s look very much alike; the gowns
'tao fexpected to transform them from
- into judges and to exercise .
1io1snt influence In elevating their
2adgments; otherwise we assume that they
sxouM mot have been put on. There
lonxely must have . better motive than
'vmity for the innovation. II It will add
11Eength 70 the judges, we have no objec-
s11oa 70 make 10 It. Their deci-
none came to %, outside the court room,
unA3ectod by the garb In which they de-
snssr them but it is possible that there
~ b something in silk robe that
nOvo it, wearer to stronger reason;
5ond 10 certainly do not wish to take from
~ supreme court Of Pennsylvania any
ponible source OF judicial strength. 1t
&Deds All It can get. We know that
1AeIe d great virtue In the non. conduct
- silk !; and virtue, too, in the con-
auOtor In silk dress, who leads many q
0sn and judge along, to his great ad.
vantage.
But II there Is virtue in silk the batch
q judgments delivered by the supreme
court at Its first dress parade In silk, lead
us 10 suspect that the fibre OF theSgowns
Was not heavy enough. Opinions Of great
Interest were rendered, and we learn that
~ law Of the state will not permit city
- tax the conduit pipes Of natural gas
oompany or to regulate its charges; and
5 tat the Legislature may not divide the
elkieSof the state into more than three
elAssss.
This latter decision is the one that par.
\ oloulariy interests Us. 1t was made sev.
eEal months ago, but the opinion itself is
only now published. The Philadelphia
/ nswspapers, with . habitual inertness,
I fail to print the decision in full, but we
4 understand the reason Of the court u
be, that tho law offends against the
constitutional provision prohibiting spec.
~ legislation. Judge Sterrett, who writes
the opinion, says that it is the function
6 The courts to say whether or no thu
Legislature has passed law that is specia
and local. under the meaning oi
the constitution; and the sound
\ ness of this opinion seems to be
olear. But the soundness Of The
Judgment exercised by the court In dc.
4 claring that seven classes of cities arr
4 unlawful, because the legislation is local
4 = not Ill clear. Local legislation Is thai
4 which b limited to = particular place o.
sDction Of the state, and.t may be reasona
Nv argued that the division of the cities
!. q the state in three classes, Of which Ont
Z = intended to, and can :only. include
II Do.S1~ A.lv,S,f. ard ouotbor pittef,,rO n,
y Allegheny county, is local legislation
This objection is only avoided by making
I The limit one Of population and II thai
= good way to get Philadelphia into 9
special class, why Is 1t not as good wa!
7 % get any other city there 1t is tru'
|fhat the Legislature may make popula.
Hlon for class, that will put great man!
cities Of the state into classes by them
n sslves. But a. they are not put int
olasses by their names, but by theirpopu
lAtion, and a. any other city securing {
IKE limit Of population can get into tn,
{ ame class, 1t seems that the Legislation
d not essentially local.
The special chartering Of cities has al
i[ Woyo p0on VIC AuiO ouu AO cNA hoo AOi
bowed. We know no very good reason
\ Tor denying such mode Of governmeI
4 70 . city - 1t desires to havs. Wedo mo-
clearly zee the great advantage in hav
Ing Lancaster and Harrisburg governed
precisely alike, II they do not want to lie
And certainly we do not see, IL city
With . million inhabitants should have
different government from one Of half .
8 million aud one of half q million diff
JeGent charter from one Of hundred
thousand, wherefore a city OF fifty
thousand must be governed like one of q
hundred, or Q city Of ten thousand lik,
one of twenty-five or fifty. The Daniel
vho came to judgment In this ca se ne yer
studied 1t out in silk or else silk gowI
y not patent Of wisdom.
Child Labor.
The essay read by Mr.. Linville before
The agriculturists on Monday night called
attention very forcibly and properly Il
One form of great public evil that i:
growing steadily in spite of law and th,