Show null again it is queer nullification of well established principles our gov receives under democratic administrations the last congress realizing the injustice done the augar planters by repudiating the contract made with them under the bounty clause of tho mckinley act gave them on growing crops eliat is an appropriation of eliat amount wan made but when the planters came to apply for their money comptroller bowler said that he did not know how the public money could go out of alie treasury for private pur auses and he now wants to hear arguments on the case and thus is presented the extraordinary spectacle says tha sac louie globe demo crat of a subordinate treasury official whose functions are purely min sitting in judgment on the constitutionality of a law and refusing to carry out ita provisions because it doe not meet hia approval from whence he beti his authority for this aart of thing it ia impossible to say the general understanding has always been that the supreme court alone is clothed with the power to determine constitutional issues but comptroller bowler evidently believes himself to be a new branch of the government superior to all the others and free to do as he pleases in the performance of his duties |