The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-07-13
GRENADA, MISS, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1901.
| o.. .coo. 900. mad. her tn. principal dsbto,

on bonds to the amount Of sj,000OO0 In
stead of being surety and guarantOr as she
was before. and without resubmtting 1t,
issued the bonds under that and they were
sold. The gentleman is lawyer and can
see the difference. The people agreed to he
guarantors to the bank with ample indem-
nifty to the amount Of $1,000. 900. The
bonds were actually issued, AID the law
authorizing them, which was never sub
mtted according to the constitution. made
her a principal to the amount OF 81 600. 900.
That law was never, as | said. submitted
to the people as required by the constitution.
Not single dollar of that money ever
went into the State treasury Of Mississippi,
and no subsequent legislature ever ratified
it or ever submitted it to the people. That
is the whole thing on that there is moth
Ing else = it except that.
MIR. HOAR.-I should like to ask the |
Senator in reference to what he is now |
stating whether the legislature Of Mlsss- |
slppi did not in a subsequent year In the |
year 1S41, in January, pass a resolution |
TO the effect that the State was bound to |
the holders of the bonds of the State sold |
on account of the bank for the amount of |
the principal and interest," and further |
more that the State of Mississippi would |
pay her bonds and preserve her faith in
violate. The legislature at this time re-
pudiated with great yigor the insinuation
that the State of Mississippi would repu-
diate her bonds and violate her pllghted
taith; And did not the supreme court Of
his state, Chief Justice Yerger-I thik
chief justice, at any rate iudge-a man
S,r:yr very famous throughout the country, de
ilverlng the opinion; declare that those
Mr. GE0RGE.--I will answer both
questions The legislature, I believe. pass
after the bonds we're sold not before.
II the legislature had not the power to
bind the State by the creation of the debt.
mere resolution. without submitting it to
| the people. to validate an invalid debt.
Now, as 70 the decision made by the
sippi, | Will answer this question by asking
another not for the purpose Of annoying
annoy him by a question, but for the
purpose OF bringing out rather salienty
sherama she idea HAY | have In view: pid NOT the
in the bred Scott case that congress had
no no Pow power to prohibit slavery in the, Ter
rritores, r and that free negroes could not
| the American people submit to and ac.
quIeSSc,e In that decision? Certainly not.
Nh HoAR.The senator is answering
a. MR.. GEoRGE.-Yes / thought un.
derstood you to nod assent.
Mr.. GEoRGE.-very we'll.
NIX. HOAR.-l say, in the first place
II the senator desires to know my opinion
|
the United States never so decided il was
mere 0btcr dictHm in regard to a point
when the case did not present next. that
the American people changed all that by
a change in their constitution.
Mk GEORGE.-Well, before the change
did the American people acquiesce in that
decision Sid the gentleman acqulesce
MR HoAR;;.nNot, in that dictum.
MIR; GEORGE.-Though the senator may
regard II an obitcr dictum. the court did
n9}tt think so. | will put another case.
pa not the supreme court Of the United
regal tender law was unconstitutional
MIR. HOAR.-Well, Mr.. President. does
the senator from Mississippi seriously
MR.. .GEoRGE.-Never mind. If you
Wiz VIII wait now ! will show you the appli-
question. Did not the supreme court Com ."o af I
the United States few years ago so de.
eide not in an obitcr dictnm, but did they
MR.. HoAR.- Everybody knows the an.
swer to that question. The senator can
answer answer it and make his application if he
Mr.. GEoRGE-very we'll
MR' MR HqAh,mTha. GEARcT was the decision
afterWard @ %dhIhR;EmAnd thsS roAad about TIVE years
other way did they not Now SefisOn the appi, Tne
cation l want to make is this We know
mat on political questions. 1t may be un-
fortunate that it is so, but such is the
, Iaet. Judges who have formed opinions in
reaefenGe waef ace to those questions before they
|
those opinions when they are upon the
bench. The Dred Scott decision was made
py tSr,a oench composed of judges who en-
tertained those opinions before they were
On the bench. AS to the first legal ten.
5 ger decision | do not know how that was
IN that regard, because ! do not know how
the judges stood on that question; but ii
was evidently reversed by tine infusion into
the court Of two men who held according
- ed before they went upon the bench and
II Is said they We're put on the bench for
S Ihat purpose The supreme court of Mis-
, slsslppl happened at that time to be com
i posed of three men. everyone of whom had
/ been an active participant in the discus
St%ns rs}nTor"d which apose n 1871 and 1913 il
a everyone of them happened To be- a mar
who had committed himself fully in every
/ VA! Wy! IN every shape to the doctrine thai
l = MIR; HoAR.--I want to ask the senator
+ ron. from MlSSissppl then, If the sum and sub
: that he denounces our alliance with 8
> MIR, GEORGE have made no denun
n anybody. '"'''
u MR.. uoAR-His associates have
: Now, then. according to the senator m,
people of Mississippi allied Themselves viii
men who repudiated the honest debt OF tha
state according to the Judgment of III
MR.. GEORGE.-i denounce nobody. Tn,
/. senator has not heard me denounce any
d body have not even denounced tina
nous story about Mississippi / hav,
y treated him politely | do ndt know bu
: what he may have dreamed it or sometime
+ OF that sort but | would not undertak
= 10 say after all my experience about men
swearing to things occurring in Mississipp
n that the man was constitutional liar i'm
s stead OF Il crazy dreamer. The long an,
II short OF 1t Is just this, will tell the sen
- ator from Massachusetts that | have neve
:, met a lawyer outside of that court II
II mississippi of any politics who concurre
t, with the court in the conclusion which the
n reached But that is not the way to decid
That question that is not the way TO hol
, up a people by repudating debt
u Thy had as much right to their Opinion
d as to the justice and legality of that deb
~ as the people of the United States ha
"a as to the legality and the proprety Of tn
e dclsion made in the Dred Scott case-jus
IS as much. 1t was public question. aud
4. undertake TO say to the senator il he Wi
.e look at 1t as a lawyer. without reference I
the decision Of the supreme court of Missl,
a sippi, he will arrive at the same conclnsio
that have that there is no legal validity
Dl and never was any in it. and If the senate
10 wants new decision of the court. we Coul
"a soon get II down there, | reckon now-ius
u as YOU did the legal tender question herr
fe If anybody would sue now | suppose tn
h. court would decide the other way lust as m
m supreme court here did on the legal tendf
- question. | have no doubt about that. a.