The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-01

fees of which are larger than most law
yers earn in a lifetime. These TWO
young men are John W. Haussermann
and Charles c. COhn, the former being
from LeayenWOrth. Kan, and the lat
ter from San Francisco. The case IN
point related to the refund of duties
collected by the United States govern
ment from the merchants of the Phil
/ lppines. 1t seems that upon the declar-
alton of war with Spain, President Nc
/ Kinley ordered the collection of a war
| tax upon imports. This impost should
1 have been suspended when the Paris
treaty was signed, but was continued
/ during the Philippine instruction be-
cause the officials Interpreted the law
/ 10 mean that duty should be collected
! as long as any kind of hOstilities were
in progress. The supreme court has de-
cided that international war and local
insurrectiOn are two different matters,
therefore the duties which were col
lected after the signing Of the Paris
/ treaty must be refunded.
The amount involves between $1,000. %
! 600 and IS 600 000 The firms who paid
/ this money are TO receive sixty-siX and
twO-thirds of the refund and the at
I tOTneys SO Is per cent. Haussermann
/ and Cohn have worked on the case for
/ five years. i'm connection with the law
| firm of Coudert Bros. of New York.
/ Cohn and Haussermann vii each re-
! ceiVe $500. 600 4 motion for re-hear-
! ing has been fled on the ground that
/ the refund of this money would be in
/ the nature of a sratUity because the
duty was added TO the cost price of the
goods at the time, SO that in reality the
public paid the tax. While this is true,
the supreme court regards The matter
] -
Z said that congress viii hardly refuse
The payment of a bill against the COun-
try which has been approved by the
highest court in the land.
Manila Has Modern Newspaper.
Manila has been the scene of much
newspaper enterprise. The Cablenews
/ with the exception of the Honolulu Ad-
Z vertiser, is the best equipped journal
i undeg The American flag outside the
states. cit established by lSrae
Putnam; a Saratoga capitalist, who was
f0rmerlE an officer in the regular army
Mr.. Putnam's idea was % give the
Americans in the philippines, and tht
people Of the Orient in general the
news of the world from an American
viewpoint. He spared no money II
equipping the paper, supplying lino-
ftypes, perfecting. presses and stereo'
tying machinery, all of which are ruI
by Filipinos, there being no printer OF
lmechanic of any other nationality EN-
fplOyed on the paper. The CablenewS
is housed i'm its own building of con-
crete and steel which is the hand
soonest, largest and most costly of its
kind in the Orient. Everything is ruI
by electricity.
About two years ago MIR. Putnam
leased the CableneWs TO Mr.. Fredericl
O'Brien, a correspondent who is wei
known in San Francisco, New NOrl
and the far east. The cosm0pOlital
atmosphere of the paper is shown b.
the personnel of its staff, the edito
being an American, the city editor al
I Euglishman. while the reporters ar
Irish. English, German and Filipino
The paper is published in English wit
daily Jranslations from the Spanish AM
| fagalog papers, and is literally II
| Illustrated with half tones. In forme
| times little news was received in Ma
Mia by cable on account of the tire
mendous tolls, but the CableneW
struggled along under a great burdel
Of expense until it finally built up
clientele that paid.