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Show AN OPEN LETTER. $w Supremo 'Court oMhr UhltccQstatcs-' UhltccQstatcs-' by M. M.KellogKV .jL Article III, Section. 1 nnd S.f ffiy Constitution oi thu Unlud States, provide: pro-vide: "Sr.cTiON 1. The Jiullelnl pnwnror the United States shall b" vested In nnn Supreme Court, and Mich Inferior courts a Iho t'ongri's-t may from time to I line opinio and e-inlillsh "Tlm Judges, btilh of tho Supreme and Inferior courta, nlmll hold their olllees during good behavior, .t'id.Khiill nt Muted time rec-lvo fnrilielrnervlces ii cnitiicn"iillnii, Ahlch flmll iiothudl mlnlslied dining their coiitiuuatico In olllec. "Sue. 2. Thu Judicial pnwpr shall ixtend lo ciises In Law and Equity arising ttt.der this Constitution tho laws ot ttio United Slates, etc." Tho ndmlnlstrntlnn of government, national, statu and municipal, as well as the government of the churche., ami the Judinnmits of thu conns, am a powerful ongino for, thu advancement of liberty, Justice and truth, or tlitty may bu a great machine, whose effect is oppression, Injury and wrong. Therefore1 tlm injunction of tbo great ApoMlo to "PiovohII thing: hold fast that which is good," Is us necessary today to-day as ever. The theory or the framers of tho Consiltuilou wns. evidently, to establish estab-lish a tribunal entirely ledepuudeut ol nil political lulliieucu and not even miswurablo lo ihu people for Its decisions. deci-sions. And that IU great and uncon-i uncon-i rotable power would bu a source or strength to llui government. litis thu result justified the expectation expecta-tion of Its creatoraV Lei us exntnine i lie record and seu If that tilbtinal can bu trusted any morn than thu people themselves In a crl-ls. I will only re-fur re-fur tu Iho action or Iho court within iho period of tho memory of a great uinn of in. In Deeuinbur. 1810, wns rendered tbo Died Scott decision. Tlm court held, two dissenting judges: "Thu a negro, hu child of hi n vu t.iiroiiis, could not becomu a citizen of I bo United Sutcs liur uda Siitlo." And "That Cnnisru-s had no ConMliUtloiial power toexeludu slavery from any of thu ucqtiltcd territory terri-tory of the nation." The peoplu reversed lhat decision. In December, 18(50, tlm court live Judges ngalust ihtvu decided tho "Lu-gill "Lu-gill Tender Laws' unconstitutional. In December, 1870, thu court 11 vu Judges Ui four decided the same laws constitutional. It Is worthy of nolo that within the year Justices Strong unit Rradluy hud bcun added lu thu court. What Is the law?' Aru ihu "Legal lender nets" constitutional consti-tutional or fiotr Chief Justice Chase, with Justices Nelson, Clifford. GHer and Field say, "No;" while Justices Strung, Rradluy, Swayho, Davis ami Miller say, "Yea." Thu effect of llmt lustdcolMoii is far-reaching, far-reaching, mid made thu demonetization demonetiza-tion or silver In 1873 pussiblu. In 1877 II vu Justices or Ihu Supremo Court were selected lo alt on Ihu "EUc loral Commission." If l wo Democratic justices ot thu peace bad been chosen from MUsuurl and three Republican justices of the peiicu from lnw-i, lo sit lu place or thu Justices or Ihu Supremo Court, ihu result re-sult would probably havo been thu same, and would bavu carried just as tnueh weight. In-Mtty, 1891. thocaso of Rnrdun vs. N. P. It. R. .Co. was dudded by the court, that until patent Issued ihu title lo the mlrenl bind, which was reserved by act or Congress from ihu grant ot land, did tiol puss to Hid railroad rail-road company, yot Justices liruwur, Gray and bnlras dissented and would Imvo given llmt vast domain, thu wealth of which Is almost beyond com-putal'lun, com-putal'lun, to that corporation, ulihough expressly reserved. In May, 1893, thu Income tax law was decided Unconstltutloniil by Chief Jusilco Fuller mid Justices l'leld,Uray, Drawer und Shins, dissenting Justices Harlan, Drown, Jackson and White. Jusilco Slums hud bcun vacillating und double-uiluded, bui finally went with thu four for thu unconstitutionality unconstitutional-ity of the law. Thu icsult of that decision was veiy i disastrous in thu govcrcmuut, nnd . caused thu illegal Issuaucu uf honda whleh called for live per cent interest at tt three per cent rut, undur a law which expressly authorized ihut-alu of bonds lu provide, ooln fur Hie roiiinp-llon roiiinp-llon of speciu piytuuuts, January 1, 1870, and hud certainly fullllled Its function and was a dead statute. Thusu rufurences to deolslons which are on tbo most Important questions that have coma before the court lu fifty years, to my inltul' clearly show that tlm members of lhat court can uu more b trusted to ducldu u niooind public question, freo frutn prejudleo and out-Kdu out-Kdu lnfluuiice, than any other intelligent intelli-gent citizens. Thererore, I ravor an amendment, to the Constitution by which the power of the conns to decb.ro un uct of Cnugiess uncni)Htnuij(iuu) and void shall be entirely en-tirely taken away. An act of Congress should be the supreme su-preme law of the land. I |