Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-01-03
A FEDERAL MERTON.

We had intended to have something
90 cay this week regard inV the decision
OF she Supreme Court IN the Bpckman
bill Gaze, bat rs yet have not had An
opportunity to read the decision rem
deped. 80 10 .ompvises about fifty
typewSitten pages Of legal sire lie
decision vac on the grounds Of uncon.
siitutionality raised by the infOrma-
ton, 40 matter OF Law. and UPON these
grounds the acs vas declared consti.
tutional, and 10 was AlsO declared that
the sais was By she Attorney General
alone. The dscisiOR d,yss not pr,rsnt
further litigation. T.juRctioRs ar Oth,r
pr0cssses Of Ldr can be instituted and
prosecuted in the Mate courts AND CAN
BE CARRIED TO THE UNITED >rArEs ST.
PRRMK COURT. As THERE Is A FEDERAL
seand that no appeal can be taken,
however, from she recent decision TO
che United states Supreme Court. We
understand that shis 10 on account OF
she facs that she recent suis was en-
tiFely IN she hands Of the Attorney
General. Lake City will o! course APP
on she mattevs involved has only be-
f<sas.iesd ~ holt he State .A0ricujturdl
College which wds iOcdted her. O,er
tIreRfy years d0O, and Which h'y W'N
do, TIE BCCKNAN BILL AND THE RE- E>T
DECISION To TIVE CONTRARY NuTwITH-
STANDING Lake City Citizen Re-
porter.
Tue above reckless piece OF writing
10 clipped from the editorial columns
OF Inc Lake City Reporter VI is.t
Friday, Dec. 70. (iIalics and caps
oun).
So long NJ there vas any uncertainty
or room for question as TO the consti-
nationality OF the Buchanan bill, under
the operation Of which q state univer-
sity was created and located At
Gainesville. We have refrsined from
saking editorial note Ot the vindictiv-
spirit manifested by the Lake City
press-and The Reporter in particular
toward our city and our people.
hut since the supreme Court OF the
State hss declared the bill constitu-
tional and in full force and effect, and
since further resistance on the part Of
Lake City can be construed only in the
light Of Q desire TO play THE dog in
the manger" act. aud injur. and EN-.
barras. Gainesville without any hope
OF beneftinR herself, we feel that the
time has fully come when We can NO
longer refuse to begin TO set up and
take notice"
As for The Reporters threats tina,
The decision of the Supreme Court
does not prevent further litigation"
and that "Injunctions or other pro-
cesses ~ law can be instituted and
prosecuted in the state courts" We
are not in the least concerned. The a.
sertion that Lake City IL going 10 keep
the Agricultural College in spite ~
The world, the flesh and the dewitt"
the Buckmau bill and the Supreme
Court decision thrown in for good
measure, does not worry va much.
since there has for some years been no
agricultural college in the state
But the threat that Lake City pro-
poses to raise and carry to the United
States courts q FSd'rH quo,'trn IN
volyed in the Buchanan bill, would, We
must confess, give us grave concern,
could we bring ourself to believe that
the good people Of Lake City could so
far forget their Southern birth and
breeding, so far forget their southern
manhood. as to raise that ugly aues-
tion-for We must admit that the qaes-
ton is there. the Federal question Of
the right OF the State to exclude one
class OF it's citizens from public schools
supported by taxation OF the whole
peopls--the right Of the State 10 ex-