Show IT FLATTENED OUT The IdahoNevada Scheme Falls Through r SBBIOUS TROUBLE IN HAVANA j Through the Whirlpool Kaplds Arrested Ar-rested for Arion The Recruiting HtrTlce A Fruitless Demand A Flatteaed Farce SAN FRANCISCO August 29ln the application of the Pacific Railroad Commission Com-mission to compel Senator Stanford and other officers of the Central Pacific Railroad toanswer certain questions in regard to the expenditure 01 funds forth for-th purpose of influencing legislation Justice Field of the United States Supreme Court delivered today the opinion of the United States Circuit Court to the effect that the act of Congress Con-gress creating the commission improperly im-properly invites the cooperation of courts in an inquiry that is not judicial The opinion is backed by the decisions and opinions of Story Marshall and Toubry upon the limitations of Congressional Con-gressional authority and in effect voids that part of the act referring to courts as unconstitutional The court therefore there-fore declines to make the order compelling com-pelling officers to answer questions and also declines to make the order giving the commission access to the books of various construction companies I |