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Show WuatLoes it Mean ? Wc learn lor the first time in tho history of Americau legislature, that the Chief 'ustice of a Supremo Court has declared de-clared a law cannot be decided uik-ou--titutioiud until tho legislative power of tin natiou so pronounevs it ! Wc imvo heard of judicial authorities, cvku in neigliboring Territories whose ars were sulScieiuly ussiuiuc to cx-teud cx-teud above tho elongated eovering of their capillary arrangement, put this 'hing boats U that wo have M'ore-viiuolward M'ore-viiuolward of! Some four days 30. the U. S. Hous f Uopvesentativcs rebuked tho Senate or an unconstilu. Uonal act in originating a mca5Urc which constitutionally the House alone could do. Our reading of tho (Jon-titutiou (Jon-titutiou tells us that a Supreme Court can rasa upon any measure emanating liooi a legislative body. Judicial facts are slightly beyond recent judicial decisions; de-cisions; and matters have reached a strange pass when tho Superior Justice of a U. S. Territorial Supreme Couri js taught law an nlien. |