The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-06-05

presumably, by the perennial William
]. Bryan, though 1t is not certain the
local prosecuting attorneys will be
willing to surrender chief place TO
him. The indictment of Mr.. Scopes
by the grand jury at Dayton was
foregone conclusion, for there is no
attempt to claim that he did not vio-
late the statute. The fight. Of course,
centers on the constituticnality of the
law. The little Tennessee town is pre-
pairing for great influx Of visitors
and it may be that huge temporary
arena will be constructed for the trial,
which is to open July 10.
Clarence barrow, noted Chicago law
yer. and Dudley Field Malohe, leading
attorney for&the American divorce col
ony in Paris, have been suggested as
counsel to aid the defense Of Scopes.
But Mr.. Darrow Is known to be a
skeptic and Mr.. Malone has been some
what tinged with political pink, and as
the Tennesseeans who will make up
the jury are certain to be both OF q
religious turn of mind and conserva-
tive, it Is unlikely those lawyers will
be considered available. The Ameri-
can Civil Liberties union is really
back of the case, and the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science Is taking deep interest In it.
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VICE PRESIDENT DAWES HAS
V carried his fight for revision of
senate rules into the Southland. Last
week he addressed the Associated In
dustries Of Alabama In Birmingham,
and told his hearers that 1.-THE South
is too intelligent to be deluded into
the idea that to protect 1t against an
other Force bill the right at times
should be given to a minority, or even
one senator, to throw monkey
wrench into the legislative machinery
Of the common government.
Answering critics of the reform cam
paign, he said that unlimited debate
had not checked multiplicity Of laws
but had resulted in their passage with
out proper consideration" He referred
to the Force bill, beaten by filibus-
ter, as "a wrong measure which
would have been repealed II passed.
This isolated argument of proponents
Of present rules, he declared. was an
effort intended ito affect the great in
tellIgent South and to revive those un-
happy issues which have died alike in
the North and South"
He said he was asking only that the
| minority, protected as it is by the
checks and balances of the Constitu-
ton, shall not exercise veto rights
over the will of majority when that
majority desires only to exercise its
constitutional rights Of legislation"
Senator Underwood, who preceded
General Dawes on the platform,
praised his efforts to procure rules
that would limit debate in the senate.
Opposition to the proposal, he SAID,
comes from two sources: From some
of the senators themselves, because
they enjoy debate and like unlimited
discussion" and from ''those persons
outside the senate who are interested
in special legislation or, more particu-
larly, in preventing legislation to
which they are opposed"
DUPLICATION by newspapers Of
l income tax lists is declared lawful
by the Supreme Court of the United
States. The court affirmed decisions
of lower courts In the cases brought
against the Kansas City Journal-Post
and the Baltimore Post. The opinion.
written by Justice Sutherland, held
that the information, as made avail
able to public inspection and the terms
of the revenue act of 1924 cannot he
regarded otherwise than as public
property, to be passed on to others as
freely as the possessor of 1t may
choose"
1t was added that ''the contrary view
requires very dry and literal reading
Of the statute. quite. inconsistent with
it's legislative history and the known
and declared objects of its trainers"
DRESIDENT COOLIDGE did not
\ approve of the plans of the War
department to have second national
defense test on Armistice day, and
suggested that July would be better
date. His preference will be complied
with, although the time remaining to
prepare for the demonstration is ex-
ceedingly short.
OFFICIAL reports from Tokyo give
~ the number of dead in the recent
earthquake in Japan as 27s. Many
thousands Of others were rendered
homeless and the property damage
was enormous. The district most af-