Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Ale1sndris Gazette.
WASHINGTON, March IL.


Chief Justice Fuller announced 10
the b1r 10 day that after the cases no"
on the cali had been argued, the gu
,,r.m. Court would hear no more, ow'
! no 20 Inc pressure of cases already un-
Jrr consideration. but would take a
rsrcss until the 18th inst 1t will oe
Enabled to do this probably Oh I'm
+ i said at the Treasury Depart
,nen, 10 dav that the Office of supervis-
NO architect, which has been vacant
= six months, will be filed at an early
NE There are on file at the depart
ment the papers of thirty-two app'l-
cants for the place, among which are
hose of two from Virginia, Glenu
Brown aud Charles Terrill.
Deputy Sergeant-at-arms Hill. of tie
! House, who has read Congressman
| : yanson's interview in the GAZETTE,
saws Mr.. Swanson is right. If silver BE-
a GU, stion in the democratic
party, it should be settled in the
party, and the democrats not willing
TO abide such settlement should GO out
of the party and Zine in the aboli-
| tlonlstS.
A prominent member of the Virginia
den ocratic association Of this city says
that though a resolution in favor Of
silver was tabled by that association at
the last meeting thereof, a majority OF
tie members favor it, and that 1t Will
| be adopted sooner or later.
People from Alexandria county here
to day say the republicans are reorgan-
| iziog in all the districts of that county
for the coming spring election, and say
they intend to have what belongs 10
them-that is. all the offices.
a good many congressman are still
here, waiting for the Presidents return.
They live too far away to warrant the
Expense of going home and returning,
and so they have to remain, and are
not overly pleased with the man who
onpelS them to do so.
People from Mississippi here say the
report that Senator George will resign is
true. Senator-elect Walthall will rep.
resent that State in the Senate Of the
next Congress, but who his colleague
will be, they say, nobodyacan tell now.
The argument on the part of the gov.
eminent in behalf of the constitutional
ity of the income tax cases was re
sumed to day before the Supreme
Court of the United States, Assistant
Attorney General Whitney continuing
his argument. The claim that the tax
was not uniform, and that incomes be-
meath 81 600 were not taxed and that
uch legislation was therefore class leg
islation, was admitted, to certain ex
tent, by MIR. Whitney; but he denied
that it was a vital point. The next
point made by the appellants was that
the tax hsd a minimum as against in
d vidusls and not as against corpora
tons; the argument made by the attor
neys for appellants would, Mr.. Whitney
thought, destroy the uniformity of thu
tax. 1t had been established that 8
legislature could select any class of in
diyidual5 for taxation. 1t was never
disputed during the war and afterwarc
that the income tax or anything similar
to it was unconstitutional Dir. Whit
new called the attention of the
court to the fact that the Su
preme Court of the United States
had heretofore held, in q Maryland
Sc, that it could subject its citizens
noliers of the municipal bonds of New
York city, to taxation. If the State OF
Maryland was able to do this, why
not The United States? MIR. Edmunds
claimed that the income tax law was
an unauthorized invasion OF the rights
of his client. If his client had no right
under the constitution to appeal to the
courts from that which had no authori-
~ in law, he had no business to be here
But if the constitution had establish,
ed body with the authority and power
to protect him from tyranny, then he
had right to come here aud seek re
lief to ascertain whether the law re-
emily enacted was constitutional.
Parenthetcally, Mr.. Edmunds said it
was useless to inquire of the body that
enacted that law. "a body" he said, sol
respectable gentlemen who have since
disappeared from of the political
earth" Mr.. Elmunds also said that
it might not be amiss to investigate
into the question of how many OF
the gentlemen who voted to enact that law
intended to OF who would pay the alleged tax
they imposed upon others. That, however,
was another branch Of the csse and not be-
fore the court He simply referred to 1t as
IN old barrister had once remarked. mot as an
authority, bu. to adorn his discourse. "
Proceeding to more serious phase OF the
case. Mr. Edmunds took up the constitution
Itself be Ginning with Article 3, which estab-
lshed the judiciary Of the United States. Had
not Congress established the courts provided
by the constitution, then the only remedy
sgainst tyranny and oppression would have
beer rebellion and revolution.
The Guatemalan Minister, Mr.. Lazo Arri-
aga, was asked to-day as to the report that
| Guatemala might send a diplomatic represent
alive to Rome. He replied that he had no
knowledge concerning the matter and that
he did not bel eve Guatemala would take
such action. He added that the constitution
-. Guatemala is very similar to that Of the
! United States aud that it provides distinctly
| for the entire separation of church and State
The law of lib:l was discussed in the Su
preme Court of the United States to-day By
Justice Gray. in an opinion rendered In the
case of Catherine Cooley vs. the Morning Ne,cs,
of New Haven, Conn. The plaintiff, who is q
resident of the State of New York, sued the
News Company in a New York State court
for 100000 damages by alleged Ebelous
! publication; service was secured on the presi-
dent of the News Company while temporarily
| in New York and he petitioned for a reno
| val of the cause to the federal court. This
Was ordered by the circuit court for the south
ern di. t let Of New York. from which order
the plaintiff appealed to the Supreme Court of
the United States, and that order was affirmed.
Stocks are strong on the brokers' boards
here to-day, there having been general ad
| Dca all along the line said too at the