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Show i Tha Lecnl Ttndtr Act. Washington, lo. .lu-tiee Strong Je-j Je-j livured the opinion of the court in tiie ' lesal tender Cfl;8 to-day. The opinion is very elaborate and leiik,iby. Tiie court takes the ground that dbls. contracted con-tracted since the paFfae of tbe lecal tender act are the greatost portion of tbe indebtedness ol the country, that they were contracted in view of the passage of tho act, and it would be a gross injustice in-justice to decide that these debu should be paid in gold; that there is no di-tinc-tion to be made between tbo contil- lional alidity of the act of congress : declaring Ueasury notes a legal tender I for debts contracted alter it p'is- sitge, and that f.f the act inkin;; I them legal louder for all de!t;, !lboe incurred before h- well n af:er it; pess≥ that the constitutional grant to leongrtis of the power Ui coin numey ! cannot be regurdgd as containing an (implied prohibition against the ifuo of j legal lenders, and if il rais.es any implications, impli-cations, thoy are of complete power over the currency. Th objection that the legal lender set impair5 the obligation of a contract cannot be accepted, as there ciin bo no valid obligation lo pay a j a particular lund ot money, even . if both parties understand - and ex-! ex-! peel payment to be niada in coin; 1 um ;all tbo law compels in payment U-what-; ever tbe law hull reeognir.6 a money j when payment is made. The ot'jcclin : that the uuity of money value- muii ' po?ses intrinsic value, is regarded a.-, a.-, foreign to tbe subject, as the legal ten-;deract ten-;deract doe nut attempt to make a standard value. This decision over-nile -1 much of 1 the decision in tho case of llephurne rs iGriswold, 6 &, Ottl, ns ruled tbe leg.sl tender acts unwarranted by theeoastitu- lion so far as thoy apply to contract.-I contract.-I made before tbc-ir enactmenl. ! Juiliee Bradley read a lon?j opinion concurring with justice .Strong. 1 Tbe I.ou titan a MuJ.llr. Nrw Orleans, 12. There was a quorum quor-um in tbe senate to-day by securing the presence of a Democratic senator by promises of repealing the obnoxious acts j-hich have caused eo much trouble. After tbe senate wai called to order, and a quorum was discovered to be present, the rules were suspended, and the registration, election, constabulary constabu-lary and prmting bills wore all repealed. The bills were sent lo the houso and thoir passage concurred ' in with-oat with-oat a dissenting - vote. At three o'clock they were sent to' tho governor gov-ernor and signed, and only lack publication publica-tion to hocome law. All the absent senators sen-ators will return to-morrow now those 1 acts aro repealed. |