The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

In spite OF the vigilance OF Government on
Gals the number of Cinnamon struggled over
the Canadian border is surprisingly large. A
couple Of Mongolians were arrested in Chicago
few days ago on suspicion OF having evaded
the Exclusion Act, and when searched 1t
found that they had couple OF her Majestys
head-tax receipts secretsd In their clothing.
They, like many Others had landed at Victoria
ald been sent by the Canadian Pacific TO point
where access to this country could easily be
obtained. The faVOrite places OF tile smugglers
jus now include Port Huron, Sarnia. Windsor
and Sault Sic. Marie. Recently an effort was
made at Detroit 10 smuggle In colfin containing
aCelestla money having been paid FOR the privi-
lege OF shipping him from Windsor permit
allowing the removal OF the remains OF a woman.
All the arrangements for tia admission OF the
supposed body to this country were about CON-
pleIe when suspicion was excited by the dis
coYery OF a number OF holes that had been
bored IN The lid. An investigation disclosed a
lively corpse who was very sOlicitOus for the
safety of $500 found on his person. II the
Canadian transportation companies practically
connye at wholesale evasiols OF our laws for
the exclusion of Objectionable classes and the
regulation of shipments In bond, they should not
complain II their privileges are abridged by the
Treasury Department.
The Clitheroe abduction case has excited more
than usual attention in England and this coun-
try. gentleman named Jackson, who had
been called to New Zealand on business. found on
his hurried return In response to his wife's written
entreates, that she would no longer live with
him. He then captured her at the parish church
at Clitheroe and carried her TO his home at
Black burn. When an appeal was made FOR her
release on habeas corpus bis counsel quoted
Lord Mansfield as follows: "a husband has
power and dominion over his wife and may keep
her by fDrce within the bounds of her du y and
may beat her. but not III a violent manner"
The Court OF Appeal. however, differed from
him. AS Lord Esher said the lady had been
seized and confined under circumstances of the
grossest insult. Her seizure was brutal. That
being SO the law does not entitle the husband to
retain his wife in confinement, and he had shown
himself to be man TO whom the Court would
not give her back The London Times, in COM
meniing on The Courts decision, however, de-
elares: IF woman. for no fault OF the man. is
entitled to desert HIM, he ought IN common JUS
lice 10 be free to have nothing more TO do with
her and TO marry again."
An Iowa court has rendered decision regard
ing the taxation of national bank notes that is OF
national interest. The Assessor OF MaquGketa,
in making the assessment on local bank, left
out the sum of 81 900 in national bank notes on
the well-kn0wn theory that they were not subject
TO municipal taxation. The Board of Equallzs-
ton, however, took the opposite view, aud Judge
Brannon sustains their ruling, holding that
''naiional bank notes are not in any just and
proper sense obligations of the United States.
On the contrary. they show upon their face that
they are the obligations OF the particular bank
to whom they have been delivered, aud by whom
they have been pus in circulation. II is true that
the Government Is bound for their ultimate re-
dempteu, but this redemption Is not made by
The Government out of It's own funds. but out of
the proceeds OF sales OF Government bonds b.
longing to the banks and by them deposited
with the Government as security for such re-
demptiOn." The law of the State, he further
maintained, declares bank bills to be taxable,
and there was nothing In the acts OF Congress.
properly considered, that would prohibit such
taxation.
Editor Farrar is accused by the Conservative
press OF Canada Of having been caught in more
traitOrous work. letter of his recently pub
lisied IN Detroit declared that in the new Parlia
ment Sir John Macdonald would have TO depend
mainly on the votes OF the minor provinces,
which are not a secure prop. and added the COM
ment concerning the visit of Commissioners TO
Washington to negotiate for the advantages OF
jug-handled reciprocity: His object appears
to be TO spar for wind, TO keep on humbugging
the people here in the hope that something may
turn up to divert their attention from the press
ing question OF their empty pockets"
While European nations struggle for military
supremacy tie burdens OF taxation compel them
among other expedients to take steps 10 pro-
mote foreign commerce. The announcement
that France would appoint commercial attaches
to her foreign embassies Is followed by news OF
Germany's determination TO conclude CONNER
cial treaties with Belgium, Switzerland and Italy
In addition 10 the commercial treaty now In
progress between Germany and Austria.
Germany just now Is cursed with a coal ring
and the effect is seen in recent shipments from
Philadelphia aud Cardiff. Within fortnight two
ocean steamships cleared from the former port
for Europe with cdrgOes OF soft coal aggregatlug
5000 tons, fact unprecedented In the coal
trade, and the North German Lloyd's Steamship
Company has placed an order for 10 600 tons at
the latter place.