Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-18
OUTLYING TERRITORY
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base unless 1t be at the cost of admitting
those who may happen to inhabit the soil
at the time of the purchase to full rights
as citizens of the Union, no matter how
homogeneous or unfit they may be, while
the furegn-born inhabitant or the aborig1-
nal red must depend upon the grace
% Congress. though he dwell half CEN
fury among US?
What reason can be suggested for deny
ing TO this nation such full power and dis
Cr.tion as are possessed by other nations
in this respect? Why should the trainers
OF the Constitution have wished to put
shackles on the national limbs or to strip
the nation of powers necessary to the pres
ervation of its dignity and the maintenance
of it's material interests on an equality with
the nations of the earth? The full exercise
of these ordinary powers tends to the ex-
altation of the dignity, influence and well
fare of the Union. These powers are incon-
sistent with no principle of personal lid
erty Why seek to needlessly limit and re-
strain the national functions? Why not
rather with the same largeness of view
and purpose that characterized such states
men as Jefferson and Marshall, to seek, by
liberal interpretation TO give broad and
ample scope to the spirit Of national de-
velopment, looking forward as Marshall
expressed 1t, TO the ages to come. when
newer, grander and more potential oppor-
tunities for national growth and influence
should have come to us than our fathers
ever dreamed OFF,
Mr. Griggs laid it down fact that
administrative construction, congressional
action and judicial precedent all affirm that
under revenue laws every port in
ceded country is to be regarded as for
eign one until such laws are expressly ex
tended by Congress to the new posses
sions" and he gave citations of proceed
ings under these heads in support OF his
contention.
Implication of the Constitution.
In this connection he quoted the clause in
the thirteenth amendment. saying that slav-
cry shall not exist in the United States, "or
any place subject to their Jurisdiction. and
commenting upon 1t. said:
The clear significance of this language
is that there may be territory pertaining to
and under the jurisdiction Of the United
States which Is not part Of the United
States and to which the Constitution OF the
Usited States does not apply unless 1t be
expressly made to apply thereto. as in the
care of slavery.
Mr.. Griggs then went at length into the
claim that the constitutional clause which
provides that duties. imposts and excuses
shall be uniform throughout the United
States prohibits the imposition of duties In
the cases before the court
."rhat clause" he said, does not apply
to nor govern these cases, because the
tein United States. as there used, means
only the territory comprised within the sew
eral states OF the Union. and was intended
not for the benefit or protection Of outside
territory belonging to the nation; in the
latter sense duties on imports from these
islands are uniform throughout the United
States, because they are uniformly imposed
at every port in the United States that
there is no preference given to the ports
of one state over those Of another. nor in
any inequality between the several states
created.
Defining Omitted States"
He gave three definitions to the term
United States, as follows:
II. The corporate name Of the nation or
governmental entity. the same as was pro-
yided in the articles Of confederation, which
declared 1.-The style OF this Confederacy shall
be the United States of America
- The states united-referrtng to the
several states composing the Union. In
this sense, of course, Is excludes terri
tories.
% The International sense designating
the extent of our domain as sovereign
nation In this sense 1t includes all terri
tory under our dominion wherein no other
nation has sovereignty, even such may
be under our control by temporary con-
quest as Tampico. Mexico. during the Mex
lean war CFleming v. Page; while in a
domestic sense II includes geogra phically
the states of the Union and such territory
as the President and Senate have by
treaties expressly annexed to and made
part Of the United States. and such as
Congress and the President, by act or