The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-26
WHAT The ISSUE WAS
Points That We're Argued In the Lloyd.
Sullivan Case.
The Two Leading Features In the
Brief Submitted Before the SUI
preme Court In the Silver
Bow Contest.

u-.I.., .s ,s n caue
In the SuihVah-Li"su ease' ..nI.
before the supreme court tue ""n'"sve
brief for the respondent was prepareu ny
John w. Cotter and NJ. kirkpatrick. Ihe
material questions discussed are those re-
lo,;nc 10 the qualification of certain regis
..a.;.a,s "a o,d aG
Hreo 'o'ers az p'e,
~ was co"'e''ue" = o"s.. 49,
Lloyd that a DECLARATION OF ih'c,.o" :"
become n citizen must he made either De-
fore the court or in the clerks Office; that
The place is of the essence OF the act or
ccrc,nonv. and n moi there made IL is null
~as.a -. a, r;.h, wb,,cver
y - T,a - ,rg,.
the deciara.'' 80
ment showed that, IN Niichigan' tue eAac'
question involved was passed upon py tie
supreme court, which said: 1--WE cannot
require the action of the clerk under the
nat,rati,,,;op law IN hc held In any mar
.;a,,a. sn", - roo,n or bn;ldin, withou,
'S.,"r Spo''" 80 .'aI;aae,ian ~
auuihg To the iaw "a qaa',.'.',o"
oar own not Indicated ny It's iahR"ae.
n not required by u OF its purposes.
Ii appears from the evidence, continues
,be prief. and from finding 10 of the court.
tha, 1, has been a usual practicc i'm the
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county Oh oh'er DOW since '' o,Ssu
non 10 make such "eciaratioh d ihVe'''
lion before the clerk ar his deputies ava!
fEbil a. Ntll - a. TIT lit Vi f'
Moreover his same practice has prevailed
in tho Territory of Montana since its or
..n;..,;a, a.. .r;u;,aI .c, ~ congress
knHo" wy "s,,s - a.
iern''eng such uccia'""s VIZ
clerks OF courts having been passed III
is2i. IL has never been considered essen
iial that such declarations should be made
M the office of the clerk, but clerks Or
their Identities. osnecialIv I'm the moro non.
,lo,s n,;n;n. conn,;os have ns,aIIv nj.
.o "k nv n "s"a'. ~
tcndcu Tor TINS y AT places cohVe'i-
lent 81 access Tor the laboring popuia-
lion, and taken the declarations and ad-
ministered the oaths prescribed by the
act. Nor has the Montana practice in
nj. n.s,,oc, b,,n .;,,,,l,r ar ,,n,roo,.
J.n,.J
p nv
hns'e : nno.i. - ua.. Iu.s'Ioh 70
snie' w ~ IT., IT, ny "ssln'l.on VI ~
aour', :, WIS aleaeu ~ ums rsp.Icauon
euoy .na ~ .".es
rs.syt,e. anu 'ass ~ H." ~
sponneu. WIT 10. ' we u.he tney . ~
'o"u iuai,ieu eIectors III 'ha' .hey hau
20. nriore vo.ihg ..aen ~ oa.n w. SUP
port. me government anu CONSTITUTION Oh
nv uhiteu o.a.cs. WI 'he par' Oh inc re
sp..ne.i. . nno ' WIS niaue 70 s'rikc
W .n1 po,'o.Tr IT,, IN epimucaN.1" on two
krppunius. V ~. '"c aiIegcu Iac,ha
yaiiu anu suIIcfen. gfouhu "i coi'cst'
snouiu nave oeeh ser iorui III INC CON-
piainto OF sta.enicnt OF co,itcs'' ana canie
Wv ht,e III the repiica,loh. 4 mar Tue
a.' a'iegeu was 'rIeieNah' anu ,hiiiater,
ni, anu oiu ,ot constitute a vaiiu ground
" Soh.cs'' Court grah.eu tle lhouon
anu th1se aiieea'9.,s were strickeh from
u,e repilcat,oh. ms ac'ioh Oh tic court
assignee as error,
l. ms lnvolves hrst a innt'er OF plead
ing, ana whe.ner a new ana substantive
grouhu vi coG'es' rah ne SCI UP ~ the
ana whether u must he alleged
IN inc cotiPIaint or IN an amenuinent
.nereto niaue IN que time. IL VIII ne OBJ
served ina thcre was not Application to
aiienu 'ne coihplaii' by making the ale
gations IN question: "a part thereof.the
we're lei. TO s'and ar iali as part OF the