Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-07-28

the effort of the latter To compe. IN.
9outhern Railway Company To com
My with the State law prohibiting
the charging Of more than pa cents
Rr mile for the transportation at
passengers. has attracted more wide
spread attention than ANYTHING else
during the past six months. Cover
nor Glenn Is d.fying the tnit'd
States courts and expresses his d..
| termination u enforce the law TO
the letter. the State courts having
gone so far IA to sentence ticket
agents TO the chain gang
The New York Commercial. one Of
the most conservative papers. com.
ments upon the situation as follows:
As The Commercial pointed out
two days ago. the suit in North
Carolina that has led to a conflict be-
tween the State and the Federal
courts there Ia very nearly on all
tours with the case brought by the
Consolidated Gas Company against
the State OF New York and New York
Ciey--the application for an injunc.
tiOn by q Federal court restrain ing
State and municipal officers from Ell.
forcing . State law on the ground
that It's enforcement would confiscate
the plaintiffs property: and Judge
Pritchard's decision declaring the pen.
ally prov iston OF the two-cents.and.a. |
q0aFtee-per-mils law for railroad fares |
10 BE- unconstitutional follows very
cSuoely the 1oaings Of Judge Lacombe |
In the local gas ease-brieny. that
Tie enormoas possibilities in the pen.
aides are IN themselves sufficient to
iavalt1ats the INV. ~ compelling the
0oaehssp Railway Company to obey
4 o. lgss penalties which would
mean ~ 1hancial extinction.
That ~ = GOOD hw and sound
FsassainS would appear from the fact
tAee ~ svi6eocs shows that in one
oass already trjeA h wake county the
oease sosrt impose1 . ane of $4,000
- ~ saiFoaA company and then no
49, ~ agent that. II be would stop
pea1ng tickets It Q Price that vas au-
eAssl.sd By the dserse OF the Federal
ssast, tie Judge would impose only q
DoaRlnal panishnent: but II he did
~ eho court woaA not Gay what
\ WeaA Do until Il had received an
49, ha- - 4. ,~-..sAl> H. /
eAnses JuAgs Pritehard. for this com.
Dooy - - SoeA Eve thousand times
, 6ay. because L sells that number
u tjeksts daily In it, interstate busi-
Deas. ~ 1t could be fined $3.50 in
aaeA in0oAnce: thus, by . strict and
eniorcsshsut OF the lax.
could BE- obtained against
- company ~ Tie sum Of q. 500. 900
ase saeA day--and that would shortly
lno1nt % Q eo0pSets coanscation OF
- uroesrty. o. The broader question
4 Te4ssal ssthority IN the premises.
Judge PrsctAard says:
II IL criminal prosecutions
aeainoe the agents. conductors and
sDpSoyes aro Ses1ttted 20 con.
time. The 1anagess Of the rail.
roads cannot saeoessfully operate
their traiak cassy the mails or
cessisss tA61r usefulness In inter
Staes csaaios. |,
II Tie 0Eats courts possess the
power 70 inAict persons acting
under thsOtirection Of the Federal
court for the performance OF a II
auty snjoiDed upon them In q suit
witch may be brought In such
coart, then the power Of the cir.
cult courts Of the United States
vosh Be completely paralyzed.
and such courts would be render.
"a Unable 70 proceed to the de- ,
tssDinattao Oi any question in. T.:
volving the validity Of the statute
a State legislature.
Good reasoning. again! And as
oo0 ~ Enforcement Of the State Law
D1se1esed With The mails. President
looosvelt could declare martial Law
D 0osth Carolina and send q detach-
Dsoe q the United States army TO
eoeeet the railroad company In its
etsste ThIsf
We o9se One Hundred Dollars Re-