Show CASE CAE IS wr Suit Salt Over Military Tariff in bi the Phil PhU Philippines PhUi Philippines i N O Nor v 11 The bureau of in insular InsUlar sular a trough through its ita law officer Charles harles B E baa has filed ill answer In InI I I i the tIte oo of pf claims to the suit Buit of War Warn n ncr r Barnes Darnee St Co eo an aD English corpOration corporation corpora corporation tion to recover from the th United States t lb l a duties coi cot leou lct i in tic Manila MantIa and Iloilo on goods I brought from the United Potted States Into the I Philippine islands blands between n Dee Dec 10 1896 19 1 and an March S 1992 the tbt time between the I signing gul of the t e treaty treat of peace pea and thE th thI passage p of the Philippine tariff act The Tb I ease aile is hi important in that it will wilt deter determine det detI determine mine the question as all to whether the mili military I I tary tar government of or the Philippine I rouM levy lety tariff tanH on goods coming from I the United States Stat 5 into the Philippines i The government gon insists that the I redion in the Philippines created a eon con conj j I of war and justified the president I I in subjecting the territory of the Islands Island to military occupancy in the effort to I I suppress the insurrection which carried with it the power to regulate late trade with wit i ithe I the territory so o occur d nd 00 to impose Im such conditions on tr J might be pe d tie i I II 1 I and to secure revenue by levy le I Ii i Ing duties and other taxes tax It Is 18 fur further further ther contended c by the government thU thit the custom duties collected were author authorized I Ij j by congress The brief also chal chai I II L I I lenges the right ri ht of an English corpora I II lion to maintain ni a suit in the court cort of ur i I claims against the t United G States 1 I |