The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-31
HOUSTON TUESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 81 1901

HOUSTON DAHL
cause Porto Rico was not foreign territory That
the first decision The second decision maintained
the consttutionaty the Foraker levying duties
on goods coming from Porto Rico to the United
States In this decision Porto Rico was held to be
'appurtenant territory and therefore congress could
levy such tariff duties it fit in spite of the con
stutona provision in article l. section g. that "all
duties mposts and excuses shall be uniform through.
put the United States" The third decision is to the
effect that export tax be charged goods sent
from the United States to Porto Rico on the ground
that such tax is not within the prohibition of the
laid on any articles exported from any State" article
section g. because that refers to articles exported to
foreign territory, and Porto Rico is not that.
The Philippine decision, the fourteen diamond
rings case, holds that goods coming to the United
States from the Philippines not subject to the
Dngey duties because the Philippines are territory of
the United States
The most singular decision is that which allows
export goods going to Porto Rico. If such
tax be allowed on the ground that Porto Rico is
foreign territory and therefore, goods sent there
not exports, why then, goods sent from State
to another State could be taxed by the Federal gov
ernment The distinction that Porto Rico is "appur
tenant territory is very fine one. Heretofore we
have held that all the world is divsibe into United
States territory and territory that not United States
territory. The supreme court third class of
territory o-wt territory appurtenant" to the United
States territory whose inhabitants have not got any
rights and who will have to suffer all the wrongs con.
gress and the supreme court may. put upon them.
MosspAcK philosophers account for the scarcity of cot
mills in Texas the ground that the people Of this
State too rich in the manufacture of
greatest cotton manufacturers in the world for the sbinnne
the material the importing OF the prod
act and the paying OF the freight on the long haul both ways
g,r,-:, .t'lo,,e To ''''u'' '0''0" manu-
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Has any one heard direct from Chauncey since his
riase'
VINES Mrs Shaw, the wife OF the prospective secretary
OF the treasury was told that to enter Washington society
@ brr bnsn .. 5 o i 90 .a o more ,a
,l;.l ~ ,,,s. ,, Gar, .,,5 II rr t;tt hi,m W..
Mr. Shaw thinks ,f the matter isn't on record
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,-;. o',' WHY" ''7 case VIII not go 10
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1 news Conc ll9" le| oleanS ypa' number Of
s,,d b,y. a,,l..., IN, tt,, ,, 80 s,o 4 L, e., .l.
me Texas trust Ia,y These neonle had better he ~
uI or they will dN up scheme get themselves swallowed
by some octopus before they kno" 1T
Tue laws delays part and parcel of the Texas dis
trct court system
r,res is nothing in the antitrust law to nrcven, III.
legitimate development and handling of the Beaumont oil
wells That New Orleans story to the effect that the Texas
bs ,ress,,rc of 7-oy,s t,trtcs i. rr. ro |' -
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Tnf war in Ohio between Foraker and Hanna looks like
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THE marketing of Beaumont oil would be easy mat
ter were the IexasLousana coastwise canal fact The
n an noint in the AIisssinn Missouri and Ohio yl,
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