The age-herald., 1900-07-25
FEE oElY p.IlY NEWSPAPER IN ALAsAH
Extradition of MT. Shippey.

Shippey must be one or those "ho h"Ne greatness thrust upon them, for he has won fame in at least two States within a brief time He was wanted in the one State while staying in the other, and he concluded to preserve status quo, which is entirely to his liking. The manner in which fame was thrown upon MT Shippey is thus told:
 Until recently he had acted as the Co., lumbus agent of the Macon Hide and Tal- low Company. the only member of which is Moses Marks, of Norfolk, Va, who ope- rates under that name. Recently MT. Ship pey resigned his position and went to Ma con to balance his accounts. He states that after going over his books the people there gave him check for $40. Later in the day, however, they discovered that they had made mistake and said that he real ly owed them s6e. He said that he did not really owe it, but rather than have any dis pute over the matter he told them he would pay it, and instructed them to draw on him through Columbus bank They sent the Qrdlt 10 the Ddnk, put peiOFe IL toefd pS collected they held it up by wire, and then wrote MT. Shippey that they had made mistake; that his balance was really great CT than that. He refused to pay any more, and they entered suit In the meantime Mir Shippey borrowed s1oo from a Colum bus friend and started in business his own hook. He bought a car load of iron with the money he had borrowed and sold it in Alabama. Acting on the presumption that he had used their money in the trans action, the Macon Hide and Tallow Com pany had a warrant issued for him in Bir mngham, charging him with fraud. This warrant was executed in Columbus by the local police. There is nothing astonishing in this dis pute over the settlement of an account; but when the governor of Alabama asked the governor of Georgia to permit the transfer of MT. Shippey to Alabama soil, there to meet the charges preferred against him. the governor of Georgia recalled the fact that the governor of Alabama had re- fused to honor his requistion in two three cases on the ground that trials held on the spot did not present sufficient jus tifica tion. The governor of Georgia there fore decided to test the trial route in the Shippey case. MT. Shippey was tried and declared innocent, and he remains at one end of the Columbus bridge gathering in duoats and defying the sovereign State of Alabama
 The Constitution of the United States, still supposed to be in operation in spots, declares that "a person charged in any State with treason, felony or other crime, who shall flee from justice and be found in another State shall. on demand of the eoutive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime" This does not call for trials of any sort before honoring a requisition. The spirit of the Constitution calls for the delivery of the person on the spot. But different fashion was set by the governor of Indi ana in the Taylor case, and the governors of Alabama and Georgia are keeping tab on unhonored acquisitions. In the end this means confusion, and perhaps civil war, but no one seems to care much for such trifles. As State cannot be coerced, the Constitutional provision lacks physical force. It may have ethical power as a part of once revered instrument but its operation now depends wholly upon the digestion and suitability of the governors of the several States.
 The Age-Herald has no intention of call ing for an army to enforce the Shippey acquisition. It does not propose to demand that pompons and gilgals be hurried to Phoenix with a view of assaultipg the walls of Columbus. Those walls will stand till the crack O doom if they await the com ing of Alabama troops The famous Ship pey will have become a patriarch in his native Georgia city and the governor of. Georgia will have been translated to the Senate, where the governor of Alabama will not be present to trouble him.
 
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