Show CONSTITUTION AX Application or of tho I to XO Now i Washington April Gen General eral Richards of the department of justice has bU tiled a brief Sn in the Supreme court whIch Ilea flies the attitude ot of this government on the question whether the Constitution to tile the new ot of the United States The department ot of Juth says uy It Itoe does oe not without tact AN or of Congress The ca case e S is that o Ramon Ra Katz a born it of Puerto Punto Rico h i TT T TT who applies for Cor leave to tile nil a petition for write writ ot of corpus and to secure hi his l l tron fron fur further ther lher Imprisonment rl under Il a judgment t toC of oC tb the United Stat States court of aC Puerto him to two months montha Imprisonment fur for III Illegal voting at t a munIcipal election held Uti un dill der the tho military order TM The prayer Is III that the writ nit of ha habeas Ie directed to Samuel t Both Bothwell B tho well marshal of the court ourt courtat at 1 president commanding him to produce na Bast beure the Su Supreme Supreme preme Court and that thet the tit wrIt ot of certiorari issue to U the provisional I court 1 a transcript ot of it In this rue case After the cue the make mak the fonow lug argument Is tile mIlitary Its trooper within the territorial of this court Both are aN In Puerto Rico While that Island Illand his has lIMn been ceded b Ute tae United States State Congress h hu yet no It toward the territory t ry or applying the Constitution the laws In of th the United Stat States The Mead sue hail been acquired under the fI power er conferred by the ot of th the Union Sn in nuking WAr and making t rea tit The ultimate disposition and gO goy ot of territory thus thul acquired rents with Congress under the power Ower granted ranted of el and make an all needful and regulations respecting 8 the territory and tl to property belonging to the United d Staten art lurt 4 1 sec 1 al Congress has haa not yet et acted The Pent iii hi therefore still In control saint through the war department TIN n occupation is II a military Th The Guru courts are lb the n mire re a encle of tile the military power every be thing is and tempo temporary The department of oC of the United tat fate le II not In operation In Puerto Rico Rica Ti Tb court lies baa no jurisdiction or of the OUt cue presented |