The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-03-07
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coal and coke by guagers, was sustained
Inv Justice Field in an opinion in the cast
of the Pttsburg, Pennsylvania ant
Southern Coal company against the STATE
| of Louisiana. The Pennsylvania corpo
ration claimed that the law violated th'
nroyisiOn of the constitution on tarllf'
an commercial commerce between tht
states Int the court held that the POM
wos not wei taken and that the law was
but n proper regulation for oversight OF
the coal and coke boats on the Mississippi
river. and, therefore, sustained the CIT
cult court. ,...I s.,,o,.;o,,
An interesting constitutional question
was decided in the case OF II. - Eiher'
va The State of Missouri. The former
is an agent or peddler of Singer SEWING
machines. 1t was sought to make MN
pay a peddlers license, when ne resist,
ed in order to test the law, cohtenHihs
that as the machines came from New
Jersey the license was a restriction on
the constitutional right of interstate com
merce The court held that while the
goods came from another state they were
heinp handled as q part of the local 40
nestle commerce. They were no longer
the subject of interstate trafhc put had
been merged with the mass OF properly
within the state so that the occupation
of selling them was properly subject 10
state notice regulations and in no way
contrary to the federal constitution.
The Arkansas law of 1877 limiting pas
sanger fares to 3 cents mile fixing II
penalty of $500 for each overcharge was
sustained. ,o,,
Several parties secured damages
against the st. Louis and San Francisco
road for overcharge, but the company
made the defense that the branch in ques-
ton was operated as an assignee OF the
st. Louis, Arkansas and Texas COM
pany and the law was in controversy Oh
the latter corporations charter, with the
additional interesting contention that
the act requires them to do business AT II
positiye loss and constitutes taking
away of its property without compensa-
ton or the process of law. The court,
however, ruled that the action of the
Arkansas legislature appears to be a
Legitimate expenditure of power and that
il had not been shown to operate I'M
Justly, thereby sustaining the supreme
court of Arkansas.
The case of the st. Louis, Cape Cir
ardeau and Fort Smith Railway com
pany against the State of Missouri was
dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
The case of Cannon and Mulkey against
the State of Oregon, the plaintiffs having
been convicted with % others of con
spracy to bring Chinese laborers into the
state contrary to the law, was decided.
The chief allegations of plaintiffs in er-
ror was that the Indictment failed to aver
that the act was felOniously done, but
the court held that this was not good and
sustained the lower court in its convic-
ton.
The case of Francis A. Coffin and Per
cival b. Coffin, plaintiffs in error, VS.. the
United States, appealed from the district
of Indiana, was reversed and new trial
ordered. The plaintiffs were indicted on
the charge of conspiring with Theo.
Haughcy. president Of the Indianapolis
National bank, to wreck that institution
in 1894 and upon trial was found guilty
as charged and appealed to the supreme
court. The decision was rendered by
White, who went into the case at con-
length, discussing among other
questions those of the presumption of IN
nocence. Special attention is given to the
false entries alleged to have been made i'll
the bank 1t is held that the making OF
Il false entry is concrete offense which
is not committed where the transaction
entered actually took place and is entered
exactly as it occurred.