Newport weekly independent., 1901-11-08

SUdleV VI 'olo"'iA OdIOIlud on the bat
 tlefeld of Chicfamauga was dedi- cated May 26th.
 By unanimous vote the Prcsby- terian general assembly at PhHadcI-
 phia declared in favor of a revision of the confession of faith Mathew Flynn, a Chicago thcat rical manager, died from the effects
 of drinking in one evening tuam, three bottles of champagne ] An explosion of gas dust m 0a. mine two miles from Dayton r
 resulted in the death of over miners, mostly men of famls The Platt amendment u
 cepted by the Cuban cou,tita convention May 2S by a ,e's
 fifteen to fourteen.
 Col. J. c. Miner. who wa. aa
 sistant secretary of the Couf
 navy during the war, died m
 erty at Milford, O., May 25, aaea years.
 The funeral of ex-Goy Tanner aT Illinois, which took place al Spring field May 26, was the largest in thaf city since the burial of President Lincoln.
 The supreme court of Ohio has sustained the law allowing heirs of persons lynched to recover damage. from the county in which a lynehHe occurs.
 It is understood in railroad circles that the Frisco will absorb the kan sas City, Fort Ststt & Memphis rail road, and that the consolidation Wil take effect July l
 Lieut.. Gov. Allen, of Vermont. has been arrested by federal oaiecr-. charged with complicity with thg cashier in wrecking a bank of which he was a director.
 Solicitor General Richards vIa had charge of the insular case. b. fore the supreme court, makes tha following statement, containing hi @,.ltegnrs,ation of tue decision. oi the court:
 ''The important question involved was whether the cession of territory contained in the treaty of Pan. made Porto Rico and the Philippines an integral part of the United State- within the meaning of that provision of the constitution requiring all du. ties, imposts and excises to be uni form throughout the United States klhe court held that the cession sim fly made Porto Rico and the Phil ippines domestic territory of the United States, subject to the con trol of congress, which control could be exercised without reference Co those Limitations. This limitation, the court held, was intended to ap- ply to the states of the Union, and does not apply to the acquired ter ritory under the treaty, and by sub sequent act of congress, 1t Is incor- porated within and becomes an inte- eral part of the United States The decisions sustain the so-called insu- lar policy of the administration. The government now has the sanction of the supreme court for governing those islands as their needs require. The court holds that the constiiu- tion did not of its own force apply to these ceded territories, placing their people, their products and their ports on an immediate equality with ours and conferring upon them all the rights, privileges and immum- ties enjoyed by the people, products and ports of the several states. While their fundamental rights are preserved by those underlying prin- ciples of the constitution which ap- ply everywhere, the nature of the customs and commercial regulations are to be determined by congress. Obviously what l have said regard ing Porto Rico applies equally well to the Philippines, so that the presi- dent is perfectly free under the Spooner act to govern the Philip