| Show DISFRANCHISED NEGRO VOTERS U Ii S Supreme Court Renders an Important Decision CONCERNING THEIR I Justice Sis Sir SI hue ilia Court Cour eon nl nil hue an Nu ti Him Appeal lo So 10 Oilier Washington April MTh text of t the opinion of the lie United Unie States Stat court in the tl caw Qt of Olie of ot Montgomery ten iney county Al l ma t the lie Hoam of f n of ot that comi comity Ul ty Iy which Was c s delivered delvere by Justice Holmes 1011 last lut I Was wai mAde public today Th This The opinion says 18 that hOt ail s a n negro male IRIt adult on behalf balt of himself and andi GOO i others other similarly sought lull by huh bills bi In iii II equity to 10 secure Hur Ion tion ton as 8 a voters In Montgomery county which had lisa be been n refused them and thus test the Ih validity of the suffrage proM italic of the Ile nm nw constitution of ot Ala ola Al Justice Holmes says say 1 It I was wa alleged by lIlIes mIl that the refusal to register blanks blacks was WI n ft 1 port of oC n 1 i general to 10 disfranchise them anti and the federal court for tor the this Middle district t of ot Alaba Alabama ma d the bill 11 fur for want of ot f Alla jurle diction diet ioui Jur Justice Holmes Holn announces the Im lam Impossibility In possibility of ot granting the relief sought I became of ot luck lack of ot Jurisdiction uehl The decision says rays S further The fhe allege that the whole registration Ichele scheme m of the this Alabama Ol Is la u a fraud upon the lie Constitution Cn u tulon of or the United States and asks al us u to declare delare It void old Hut ll ot or course CUI he lie hl could not maintain a bill bi for tor a macre declamation In the air He lie Ie does dos not riot try Iry to do go so 1 but asks to be b registered as II a party part under the lie Ile void old Instrument If J then Ihen we accept the hue conclusion which It I is the chief purpose of or the bill bi lo to maintain how can call we make the he court curt a party tn to the unlawful scheme by accepting U it I and adding another vote ole to tu the fraudulent lists II In determining whether n a court curt of equity euly ran cite In take jurisdiction one of ot the thelt first lt questions was a can It enforce any an order that It I may my make makl This U Is 1 al at leIt to 10 be a I of at the Ile state although the state lUte Is I not and could not nol be b mad made a party tn to a tie the bill bi The circuit i court has hal no constitutional power to control Its I adIeu by h any al direct means and Ind It If wo we O lea leave the state out Olt of ot consid consideration erton the this court lies Jias laa little power to todeal devil deal With the people of ot the state stile In tn Inn ina a n body bOly The bill bi Imports that the great greal mass macs mis of ot the lie population Intended to keep kell the lie blacks black from trl voting To meet met such Intent something more mor than ordering the Ihl lie PlaIntIffs iia II I 11 Inscribed In upon the lists of or IMS 11 will 11 b be needed flee If It I the conspiracy anti ami the Intent exist a u name imme nameon lame on a 1 L puce piece pl of or paper will not detest defeat them Unless we are Ir prepared U W to supervise the voting In that state by of ot tin the court ourt It seems scorns to ui us u that all cli that thai the lie plaintiff could rould get PI from equity would be an n empty forte form Apart teem from the to the Individual relief from a great political wrong ron If It tione an III alleged by b the he people of ot a R stale tute and slid the tbt state Itself must be bf given to 10 by bythe b bythe the legislative and anti political department d of or th the t ht government of ot the Ih UnIted State States |
