The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-21
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

CALLING OUT THE MILITIA-A. W. c., Vet
Grams Home, Yountville, Napa County, Cal.
The President of the United States has the
power of calling out the militia and ordering
it for duty out of the State in which it is organ
lied. The statutes provide that whenever the
United States are invaded or are in imminent
danger OF invasion from any foreign nation
or Indian tribe. or of rebellion against the au-
thority of the Government of the United States,
it shall be lawful for the President to call
forth such number of the militia of
the State or States most convenient to
the place of danger or scene of action he
| may deem necessary to repel such invasion or
suppress such rebellion, and to issue his
orders for that purpose to such officers
of the militia as he may think proper"
Another section says that whenever by rea-
son of unlawful distractions, combinations or
assemblages of persons or rebellion against the
authorities of the United States il shall be-
come impracticable in the judgment of the
President to enforce by the ordinary course of
Judicial proceedlngs the laws OF the United
States within any State or Territory it shall be
| lawful for the President to call forth the mill
tia OF any or all the States and to employ such
parts of the land and naval forces of the
United States as he may deem necessary to en-
force the faithful execution of the laws of the
United states or to suppress such rebellion in
whatever State or Territory thereof the laws
of the United States may be forcibIy opnosed
or the execution thereof forcibly INSTRUCTED"
AFTER MANY YEARs-If Anna Smith should
marry man, live with him as his wife for
thirty years, I'D at the end of that time
another woman should appear and claim to he
the lawful wife OF the man Miss Smith mar
r1ed, 1t would depend upon circumstances if
she would have the right to claim auv
OF the property acquired by the man
she claims as her husband after his mar
riage with Miss Smith 1t would have 70
be ascertalned If the husband knew for seven
years prior to his marriage to Miss smith that
i ms nrst "lIe, II she was such, was alive ana
I,
thirty years had contributed to her sunport or
Whether the first wife had deserted her hus-
6and ana had not let him know where she was
during seven years prior to his second mar
rage.
MURDER TRIALs-L., City. It is the duty of a
jury that tries an individual for murder and
nnos a verdict of guilty to declare If the pris-
oner snail suffer death or be imprisoned for
ne; II the jury decides that the prisoner
s snall suHer the death penalty the verdict is
we nno me defendant guilty as charged"
but II it decides that Imprisonment SHAH be
the punishment then the verdict is 1--WE find
me de1endant guilty charged and fix the
penaity at Imprisonment Tor life" Under the
law defendant cannot be tried for murder or
lot any other criminal offense with less than
twelve jurors.
FAlD "RITERs-A. F. E., Alameda. Cal. II
you have the ability to write for a newspaper
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tanning sensible advice to any one wishing TO
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ARTICLES OF CoNFEDERAT1oN-L. K. R.. CITY
On the same day on which the Continental
| congress appointed a committee to frame a
declaration of independence it appointed an
other to prepare articles of confederation. The
committee soon reported scheme, but it was
not till November 49, IVY, that Congress adopt-
ed the Articles OF Confederation and Perpetual
/ Union 1t twas submitted to the States fer yati-