Show REEDS REED'S RULES SUSTAINED The Tho Supreme Court Upholds the tho Counting S of a Quorum The United States Supreme Court reconvened on the for forthe the spring session and a it 1 number of ot Important decisions were rendered Among them was one in which the court cout unanimously sustan sustained d the rules of the thelast thelast ast last Congress which authorized the counting of a 3 quorum by the Speaker of ot the House I I when members r refused fused to Vote wt Justice Brew Brewer er delivered the Opinion in the case ease of the thc United States vs Baldwin o Joseph Co appealed lions from the be New York Circuit Court This decision Involves the he legality of the worsted classification act nat When it Ita was a up in the House for action 13 votes were vere recorded re- re re recorded recorded corded for the passage of ot the bill bi whereupon the speaker proceeded to make a quorum by seventy-four seventy representatives present but not voting yoUng Said Justice Brewer It I Is within the competency of ot the legislature to t enact any rules rles not forbidden by fee constitution or against natural justice toure the presence of ot a and when tha is present It Is there for the the purpose c c doing business The act was WS held to be be ald alid and the tho decision deci fleet slon sion of the lower court revs reve ed The conclusion conclusion sion slon of the court Is that t tac e c act was wa le legally aly passed and that by Its It 0 terms term and Irrespective Irre Irre- of any action acton of t the e secretary of the treasury the duties dutes on worst d ci cloths were to tobe tobe tobe I be such as were were placed by t tI Use tact act of 1883 on woolen cloths Judgment Vas as reversed and the case remanded |