Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-03-05
IMPORTANT DECISIONS.

| IMPORTANT DECISIONS.
Tho United states Supreme Court Upholds
tho Mckinley Act-Tho Bering Sea Mat
tor-No Hope For tho Condemned Chica-
no Anarchists.
| WASHINGTON, March THE three
cases In which importers sought to test
the constitutionality Of the Mckinley
tariff act were yesterday decided by the
United States supreme court. Tho
business firms who brought the suit
were Boyd, Sutton & Co, Herman
Sternbach & Co., and Marshall,
Field & Co. The grounds on
which IL was maintained that the
tariff was unconstitutional were that
the tobacco rebate section OF the bill
had been omitted In enrolment after
passage by congress, and heretofore
the bill signed by the president was not
the bill passed by the legislative de-
partment Of the government; that
the reciprocity feature was a
transmission to the executive OF
the law-making power and there
fore void, vitiating the whole act;
and, lastly, that the act was void be-
cause of the sugar bounty provision.
The court affirmed tho Judgments Of
New York and Illinois courts OF the
United States in favor Of the constitu-
tionality of the act
HAYwARD-BERING SEA CASE.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The United
States supreme court has decided in
favor OF the United States in the Hay
ward Boring sea case. The appllica-
ton for q writ of prohibition agains t
the Alaska court is denied.
The whole case should not be con-
founded with the negotiations between
the United States and Great Britain
looking to the submission to arbitration
of the Boring sea seal fisheries, which
reached favorable conclusion to-day.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British min
lister, met Secretary Blaine by appoint
ment at the state department to-day and
signed the treaty of arbitration on
behalf of Great Britain. He said he
had been fully authorized by Lord Sal
isbury to take this action. Mr. Blaine
signed the document on behalf of this
government and the matter was con-
summated SO fur as the diplomatic part
of the business Is concerned. The
treaty is still subject. however, to the
action Of the British parliament and
the United States senate.
The exact terms of the treaty cannot
be stated, but 1t is known that the
board of arbitration will consist of
seven persons, two representing the
United States, two representing Great
Britain-one of whom is to be a Cana
dian--and one each representing the
neutral governments Of France, Swe-
den and Italy. =
DECISION AGAINST THE ANARCHISTS.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The supreme
court of the United States has extin.
guished the last hope of the two i'm
prisoned anarchists by affirming the
decision of the supreme court OF
Illinois and the circuit court
of the United States for the northern
district of Illinois in the cases of Sam
uel Fielden and Michael Schwab YER
sus the warden of the Joliet peniten-
tfary. These two men were sentenced
to be hanged with Spies and the other
anarchists for completely in the Hay
market riot in Chicago, but their
sentences were committed to life inn
prisonment by the governor. In the
application for writs of habeas corpus
which the court to-day denied, counsel
for the two men alleged that their sem
tence was in violation Of the constitu.
ton because the men were not in court
in person when the Illinois supreme
court rendered judgment sustaining the
decision of the trial court and that sem
tence, and that their right to say why
sentence should not be passed upon
them had been denied 1t was also
contended that while the governor OF
Illinois had power to commute the
sentence, no warrant was given by law
for the Communication. Other minor
points were also brought In.