Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-01-22
RETROOESsION.
THE DEADLY PARALLEL.

Permit me to Ieplyl "Prescl
very briefly to thoseIplicasle
who contend that the national
federal COVE rnment Rhode
has lost. by acquies Massachu
cence or lapse Of time Is. o." II
the right TO reestabll hlon Intern
the boundaries Of the Note 8, r
District OF Columbia
rs Washington defined There
them. yersy in
There Is absolutel5lg greet pr
nothing in such Q con- scription
iention, tor three rea. voktd v
sons. in the frs, ustice al
place, it is settled that than in q
IAN unconstitutional puted boz
act is not law: il Rhode
coniers no rights; il Massachu
imposes no duties; it ard, SUP
stferds no protection Reports,
il creates no off y; il
is in legal contempla-l THE
lion as iuoperativel presoript
as though it hSd never rated in {
been passed " mo- Iph cole
ton VS.. Shelby coonty;,quiet the
IIS U. F., 425.) liIvidusls ID
likewise settled that iect to CO.
Congress cannot, by cations. I,
auth rizition or rati- sious Of 81
location. give the to secure
slightest effect to q internati.
State law or constitu- aud that
ton in conflict with strife viii
the constitution Of the perpetual
United States. (Gunn ton coulc
vs.. Barry, Is Wsll to assert {
610.) No matter how rights. +
long the de ficto pos. ecessjty
session of Virginia the gu Ell
may continue underlof presc
her invalid st ,tutes, been extel
the rights of the ma to cases
ton remain unim. t inued
paired. where
In the seco-d place, source {
it is a fact all will ad. right can
NIT that statutes Of have exis
limitation do not ex. t. cases il
list end have never riVhtfal
existed for the settle wrongful
ment Of boundaries be- ed, has be
tween States. unwilling
In the third place, lish his ?
1t is settled that thu the notab
fact of scquiescence Idismembe
during a lopg period land title
of time can never be pr0priste'
applied to the settle based up,
ment Of boundaries erally adn
between the States, ex. been inn
cept in cases where through
the fact IS to the Local time and
ton Of the original quilscenci
b undary is a mat er manent
of dispute. In this case, cause 1t is
the original boundar- to end
les we're marked by tween ma
massive stone monu- territory 9
ments. fixed scientifi of litigat
cally, which stand to- individua
dsy, TO expel every mis- Taylor
possible doubt. The IiOnal Lay
doctrine Of acquies.
cence, even if uacon. Sle4. tt
stitutional laws were natural Ia
not Involved, is there lioaed HOY
70 entirely inappli. Iculiar sp
cable to this Gaze. sumption
reference has been The laps
made to the report Of which ia
Senator Hoar, present scription,
ed ia 1902, ia which il plicable
WIS said: "As tn the nation sn'
.uggestion that the re- the constl
PROCESSION was uncon- proved pr
slitutional, IL seems to tons sho'
US that the answer is'whatever
that from the nature otcslled, {
the c,se il is a politi. rupted ?
cal and not a JUDICIAL territory {
question" That erty To-.
stran &c idea was wiped length Of
out by the judgment oflstate, e.
the Supreme Court 10 claim OF
United States W.. Tex in the san
az, 14S L. g., 62l, IN by the Il
which il YVES held ex- and the
pressly that lin view code Of ey
If these cases it cannot, nation q
with propriety be taid session by
that q question OF ual excluC
boundary tetween a of every
Territory ofthe & United to the anti
States and ole Of theerty 10 "a
states Of the Union Is Wheato
Of a Political nature tional La
and not susceptible of,lS9.
judicial determination
by q court having In a
jurisdiction Of such aIabove it
controversy" % what is
Whenever the na. ime in 81
ton sees fit to enforceis genera
its lsw, throughout the the lsps9
entire District, which lowed fox
is its iusl enable herit. ration to
age, it will be fou1 ID educated
ut there is not the 10 posses
slightest difficultylpoWers a
either as to the right he state
or the remedy. Han. negative
mis- Taylor in a recent
ly published letter. The fed
ment 70