The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-03-19

States, Democratic and Republican JUS
! tices agreeing, decides by a unanimous
vote that both these acts are constitu
tional and valid.
Another great advantage which the
Democrats had III the elections OF 1850
was that the action Of Congress on many
important measures was declared un-
constitutional because the Speaker
counted members as present who were
present. Who does not remember the
frantic outcries of Democrats at that
time, how Speaker Reed was tyrant,
Hsurper, czar, and how the one-man
/ despotism in the House must be re-
| buked by the people" Because Il Re-
| publican majority took to itself the
| power to control legislation, and 10
make effective the will Of the people in
| the previous congressional elections,
! this Infamous uslirpatlon II was said,
must he put down, OF the liberties OF
| the people would be sacrificed. This
notion actually caught many thousand
| innocent voters, who imagined that a
| rule Of tile House must be quite ont
rageous because democrats had never
| adopted it. But now the Inited States
| supreme court, Democratic and kepub-
! lican justices agreeing, unanimously de
| cdes that the action of Speaker Reed
was constitutional and Of Unquestiona
Dle validity.
| So il was said that reciprocity was
! fraudulent and worthless trick; that
Congress had no power to intrust the
| President with the responsibility OF de
| Gliding whether the conditions upon
| which a legislative act depended had
| been met. There were some people
| who really considered it about the
worst and most revolutionary thing the
last Republican Congress had done.
| But the United States supreme court
| now decides that 1t was unduestlonablv
constitutional, and in that decision one
of the Democratic and all the Repub-
| llean justices concur.
| These decisions come in good time to
| help reasonable voters in the Judgment
| they have to form this year regarding
| the two parties. They happen TO ac-
| cord, moreover, With the exceedingly
| emphatic decisions of the Democratic
| Judges in the state Of New ork regard
ing the stealing of seats in the legiGia-
| ture They exhibit the Republican
| party as acting carefully and scrupulous-
/ " within its constitutional powers, even
| IN the most difficult emergencies, ard
| contending only for what is legal and
| right. They disclose also the impudent.
! lawless and lawresisting spirit of the
/ Democratic party in national a. we'll as
state affairs. -NSw York Tribune.
/ 1t is worthy of note in connection
with these decisions to say that one OF
the greatest speeches made i'll the SEN
ate on the reciprocity clause OF the Me-
| kinley act was that Of Senator John I.
| spooner. on September :, 1890. He
/ took decided grounds in its favor, and
not only combated the theory Of the
| Democratic senators but that of senator
! Eyarts, SO 2 majority Of the supreme
| court has sustained Col. Srooner's argu-
ment on the constitutionality oI the re-
! ciproclty clause.
Iinseea Oil and .as Tariff.
Here is an object lesson for the free
| trade theorists. When they say that
prices 60 up when the duties are in
creased Iet them read the following
| from the Economist:
The duty on linseed oil was increased
| from - to - cents a gallon by the Me-
| kinley act of October /, 1890. Accord
ing to a free trade paper the price Of
lin,eed oil during tie year before, 1850,
compares as follows with the price dur
incr Ia st wear under that act.