The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-05-31

inent government officials and many
attorneys being present, and the pro-
ceedings we're followed from start to
finish with keen interest.
The other cases decided by the court
were the Goetz VS.. the United States,
involving duties on importations from
Porto Rico, and Crossman VS.. the
United States, duties on Hawaiian inn
ports being involved. In these two
cases, the Delima decision was fol-
lowed and assessments of duties prior
to enactment of legislation for the is
lands held illegal.
The assessment of duties was partly
sustained and partly upheld in the
cases of Dooley and Armstrong VS..
the United States. The duties were
held legal when made during the mill
tary occupation of Porto Rico and
prior to ratification of the peace
treaty, but illegal when levied after
the peace treaty but prior to passage
of the Foraker act.
NEW YORK PAPER COMMENT.
Nv scripps McRae Press Association.
New York, M ~ 28.-The important
morning papers comment as follows
on the insular decision. The Sun:
"Supreme Court has now refused to
grant an injunction against American
progress in the twentieth century, as
pursued by Congress and the Presi-
dent" The World: 1.-The decision
leaves Congress and the President as
free as the British Empire to pursue
the policy Of expansion, and to govern
the colonies in whatever lines Con-
gress thinks expedient. The Herald:
Decisions overthrow the basis of our
constitutional law and asserts that the
States, and not the people, created the
government. The journal: "The
vision of empire has passed. Hence
forth we can differ only about consti-
tutional policies shaped in accordance
with the principles of republican gov
ernment." The Press: 1.-The Supreme
Court has adjudged that the United
States is a nation and not, merely
government"
GEN. GRoSVENoR'S INTERPRETATION
Bs scr,pps- McRse Press Association
Washington, May General
Chas. Grosvenor, one of the ablest
lawyers in Congress reduces the sup
rene court decisions to these TERMS
'"rhe court holds that by the ratifca-
ton of the treaty of Paris, our insular
became part of the
United States for every purpose, with
the limitation that congress has COM
plete power to legislate, independent
of the tariff limitations of the constitu-
ton. The same result follows as to
the question of citizenship and every
other question. The court is putting
the islands upon the same footing as
the District of Columbia" He con-
tinues "when the constitution followed
the flag it was followed by the per-
suasive influence of the constitutional
provision guaranteeing equality of
rights to all, hence the duties imposed
before the Foraker bill must be re-
funded"
ADJOURNED TODAY.
BY Scripps- McRae Press AssociAtioo.
Washington, May 2S.-The supreme
court was in session only three min
utes today. The second Dolley case
case and four diamond ring cases
were not decided. The court ad-
iourned till in October.
OFFICIAL COMMENT
Washington, May 2S.-Onicials of
the administration are now emphatic
in the statement that the decision of
the supreme court in the insular cases
is Il complete vindication of the gov
eminent in the colonial policy, and
that Congress and the administration
can now proceed unhampered to the
full development of that policy. They
say the court has declared that the
Democratic doctrine that the Constitu-
ton follows the flag is false and UNI
and that all or part of
the revenue and tariff laws of the
United States are applicable to all the
territories, new and old, organized or
or that these laws may
be entirely withhold from the territor-
les if Congress so elects.
With the legal phraseology elimin-
ated the courts decision holds that:
First-The constitution follows the
flag by congressional enactment only
and not tex proprio vigore," or of its
own force,
Second-That territory acquired by
treaties of cession thereby Immediately
ceases TO be foreign to our laws and
becomes appurtenant to the United
States, but not part OF the United
States within the.revenue clause of the
Third-That the people of territory
so acquired can become citizens of the
UDited States subject to the prescribed
of citizens other terri