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Show We PDBUdH this moruiug an opinion opin-ion of the supreme court, clearly defining de-fining the constitutional provision that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. The case came from Louisiana, where there is a law for the summary collection of taxee, without a judicial proceeding. It will be ascertained by a perusal of the opinion that the court holds the provision pro-vision in the constitution above referred re-ferred to does not require that persons per-sons taxed by the law of a state shall be present or have an opportunity to be present when the tax is asBeaeed; nor that the taxes shall be collected by proceedings before a judicial tribunal. tri-bunal. The attention of the legislators legisla-tors who are now at work on a revenue reve-nue bill for the territory, is directed to the opinion itiplf in to-day's Herald. |