The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-07
Tbe Income Tn1 Case.

Unless Mr. Justice Jackson should not
be able TO fulhr the duty for which he
went to Washington. the argument that
was begun yesterday in the income tax
case, VIII result in the settlement of the
question of constiutionality of the income
tax law in so far as it was left unsettled by
the decision rendered by the court a cou-
pie of weeks ago. In that decision. 1t win
be remembered the court decided that
the law, SIN so far as IL taxed incomes
from rents and state and municipal bonds,
is unconstitutional. The court divided
evenly as to the constiutionality of other
parts of he law.
The responsibility that rests upon Mr.
Justice Jackson is very great. 1t is pref
~ fair to assume that no arguments will
be advanced that Will cause any of the
other judges to change their minds If
this assumption is correct it depends upon
Mr.. Justice Jackson to say whether any
part of the law is constitutional.
No doubt he followed the arguments of
counsel on either side as closely as he
could without being on the bench when the
case was first argued. and he may have
had pretty decided views in respect to the
law before the argument began yesterday;
stilL II isn't likely that his mind was made
up when the court convened. He is a
very conscientious judge and there is no
question that he will weigh fully the ar
guments on either side before reaching a
conclusion. The court has taken the right
course in endeavoring to have the question
Of the constitutionality of the law set
tied as quickly as possible. 1t is doubtful
if many have paid their income tax yet.
About everybody has been holding back
for the final decision of the court.
Gov Altgeld, the rabid free silverite
and friend of the anarchists who governs
Illinois. is being given an unpleasant quar-
ter Of an hour by the Chicago papers. The
Times Herald has ascertained that while
Altgeld is a free silverite for political
purposes. he is a gold hug in his bust
ness transactions. He is the owner of
considerable real estate, and in his rent
contracts always insists that gold shall
be specified as the money he is to re-
ceve. He believes in silver in so far as
he can get notoriety out of it, but when
the question touches his pocket, he is
ready to become a gold bug" or a money
shark or anything else, to save himself
from loss. 1t has been charged that Stew
art, the silver mad senator from Nevada.
is like Altgeld in demanding gold clause
in all of his contracts. If the senator has
ever denied the charge the fact of such
denial has not become generally known.
1t is probable that ex-Speaker Crisp is,
the ony sivorite in Georgia who
could not straighten out the financial
tangle in less than five minutes, If the op-
portunity should be offered Mr.. Crisp
says he finds the problem difficult of so
luton; yet there are silyerite papers in
| this state which assert that it is so sim
| pie that any school hoy ought to under
stand it AT once. And, to be sure. an i'm
aginary 16-year-old boy has furnished the
silverite papers with their stock argu-
ments.
Senator Hawley of Connecticut is in
North Carolina on political visit. to
keep the North Carolina republicans
straight on the money question, it is said.
The report is that he will probably come
over to Georgia. for the same purpose.
The southern republican leaders will prob