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Show RIGHTS OF STATES IN FEDERAL TAX New York, March 9. From tho several sev-eral brief Just filed in the supreme court in opposition to the Corporation tax, lawyers who have examined them have drawn the conclusion that one of the principal f.chts on the constitutionality consti-tutionality of that measure Is to be ' waged over the question of whether It is an improper tax on tho part of tho slates to grant franchises. The ensue Involving the constitutionality of tho tax come up for oral argument before the court next week. Frederick K. Coadert, countel In two of the ca03 In which the tax is opposed, features this attack on the law. He argues al length against the so-called Infringement by the. federal government on the rlghU of states. "The power to rant charters." 3ys he, in his brief, "l,j one of the oldest state powers. It antedates the revolution. revo-lution. Taxation with its logically concomiiant potential destruction of this power by the general government would thus bo an attack upon, and possible pos-sible annihilation of, one of the greatest great-est and oldest of state functions." In the brief of Johu G- Johnson and Frederick J. Stluibcin, lu opposition to tho tax In another case, they conclude their arcuinerH by this quotation from former Chief Justice Marshall: "So political dreamer was e ver wild enough to think of breaking down the lines whjch separate the states nnd of compounding the American people Into ono common mass." Jed L. Washburn, In a brief in favor of holding the tax unconstitutional, refers to the same point as follows: "If whatever the United States had a right to do, the individual states have no right to undo, as haa been stated. It is equally true that whatever what-ever the Individual state In th' exercise exer-cise of tho reserved wcr under the tenth amendment have a rlcht to do. the congress of tho Vnlted States has no right to undo." |