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VIEWS OF MR. GRIGGS. Attorney General Presents Argu ment to Supreme Court. He Defends the Government’s! Pol* lion In Important Cases Involv ing- Status of Porto Rico and the Philippines. Washington, Dec. 19.—Arguments in the Porto Kico-Philippines cases/ in volving the status of those countries to the United States, were resumed in the United States supreme court Tuesday. The widespread interest in the cases was shown by a large attendance of prominent members of the bar and by a crowd of spectators which filled the public area and overflowed into the corridor. Argnment by Mr. Griggs. Mr. Griggs’ plea was based upon a brief of 200 pages, the greater part of which is devoted to presenting the argument of the United States, while the remaining portion is in the shape of an appendix giving the text of the peace treaty between the United Staes and Spain, and also the text of other treaties supposed to bear upon the question. In presenting the government's side of the controversy the attorney general first stated the two cases upon which the pro ceeding is based. This was followed by a general explanation and summing up of the government's position, after which came the citation of innumerable authori ties, under appropriate headings, with per tinent running comment upon them. The attorney general contended that the United States has the power to acquire territory; that, having acquired it, it has the right to govern it; that administrative construc tion, congressional action and judicial pre cedent affirm that every port in a ceded country is properly regarded as foreign un til laws are extended by congress to the new possessions; that the clause of the constitution of the United States declaring duties uniform throughout the United States is not applicable to new possessions, and that the constitution does not extend of its own force over acquired territory. Wrong from Two Points of View. In his general contention on behalf of the United States, Mr. Griggs argued that his opponents were wrong from both a legal and a constitutional point of view. Refer ring to the legal aspect of the case, he as serted that the Dingley act applied to mer chandise imported from Porto Rico and the Philippines after their cession to the United States the same as it did before, and that in view of the fact that tariff laws are in rem there is no principle of justice, much less of constitutional restriction, which forbids congress from taxing in this way the merchandise of outlying possessions of the United States when brought into the ports of the union. Two Established Propositions. He laid down as established the two fol lowing propositions: 1. That the tariff act of 1597 was intended by congress to classify as foreign all coun tries not a part of or belonging to the United States at the time of its passage, and the subsequent cession of the Spanish islands to the United States did not oper ate to admit imports from those islands free of duty, under that law. 2. That the tariff act so construed and enforced violates no constitutional rule of uniformity. Right to Acanire and Govern. Mr. Griggs then entered upon the presen tation of his subject in detail. He contend ed that the right of the United States to ac quire territory had been asserted in the declaration of independence, and said that such acquisition could be made either by conquest, by tieaty, by annexation or by discovery. He quoted a number of supreme court decisions in support of this conten tion. A great deal of attention was given to the right to govern territory when once acquired, and innumerable authorities were adduced in support of this position, among others the decision of the supreme court in the Mormon church case, in which the court said that “it would be absurd to hold that the United States has power to acquire ter ritory and no power to govern it when ac quired.” He asserted that “the treaty-making pow er of the government has exercised the right to deal with the status of the Inhabit ants of ceded territory in every treaty f cession from 1803 to 1898.” The status fixed, he said, has not been uniform, but exceed ingly varying. He then proceeded to argue that this practice is entirely at variance: with the doctrine that “the constitution follows the flag” and that when territory is ceded to the United States the inhabitants become immediately proprio vigore citizens o? the United States. “If that doctrine be true,” he said, “every treaty that has brought us new lands and new inhabitants has violated in this respect the principles of the constitution. It convicts of error and usurpation Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, James K. Polk, Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson, their cabinets and the senates that ratified their treaties.” As to “Uniform Duties” Clause. Mr. Griggs went at length into the claim that the constitutional clause which pro vides that “duties, imposts and excises fhali be uniform throughout the United States” prohibits imposition of duties in the cases before the court. “That clause.” he said, “does not apply to nor govern these cases, beca use the term ‘United States,’ as there used, mean# only the territory comprised witnin the several states of the union, and was intended only for their benefit and protection, and not fer the benefit or protection of outside ter ritory belonging to the nation; in the lat ter sense duties on imports from these is lands were uniform throughout the United States, bee ause they are uniformity im posed at every port in the United States, so that there is no preference given to the ports of one state over those of another, nor Is any inequality between the several states created.” Constitution Not Elastic. The last feature of the argument was a contention that the constitution does not extend of its own force over acquired ter ritory, and in this connection the attorney general sought to refute the doctrine, as laid down by Chief Justice Taney in the Dred Scott case, that the United States could not acquire territory for any other purpose than to convert it into states of the union. “The doctrine of the ex-proprio vigore extension of the constitution was never heard of,” he said, “until It was in vented and advocated by Calhoun as a means of fastening slavery upon California and New Mexico beyond the power of con gress to disturb or abolish it. It was in conflict with all previous views of states men of all parties, and opposed to the com pact in the ordinance of 1787, as well as to the act of congress known as the Missouri compromise.” Died iu an Asylum. St. Joseph, Mo., Dec. 19.—" William Halley, better known to border fame as “Bill” Halley, chief lieutenant of the noted guerrilla, Quantrell, who during the early part of the civil war burned and sacked Lawrence, Kan., and butchered most of the inhabit ants, died in the state insane asylum here Tuesday, aged 59. Sew Minister to Turkey. Washington. Dec. 19. —Tne president Tuesday nominated John C. A. Leish man. of Pennsylvania, now minister to Switzerland, to be United States min uter to Turkey, SISTERS OF GOOD SHEPHERD Use Pe-ru-na for Coughs, Golds, Grippe and Catarrh—A Congressman’s Letter. IN every county of the civilized world the Sisters of the Good Shepherd are known. Not only do they minister to the spiritual and intellectual needs of the charges committed to their care, but they also minister to their bodily needs. With so manj' children to take care of and toprotectfromclimate and disease, these wise and prudent Sisters have found Peruna a never-failing safeguard. 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Do ' ou Have frequent severe headaches? w\>. PfL^ ******** Do you urinate too frequently either day or night. 1 73 b 1 y K//V/////Z' / V p 1 Trouble Stealthily Encroached. Have you sand, gravel, brick dust or white mucous in your urine? V '—** / k”*' ’ / mUlijluuli The trouble had,however, steathily encroached Have you dark or bloody looking urine which scalds when voiding? Is* ffiKmi illiflß v //j ■ upon a vital organ, and on Nov. 11 examination Have you dark circles around the eyes, puffiness under the eyes, n >&y\ /'ln l m|i AivVtEIL vJ °fth o urme proved the piesenceof inflammation or bloated appearance of the face in the morning? 1 / Both acute nephritis and diabetes made their \M MM " __ J[J B |j appearance, and Dr. Murphy, of Chicago, was Vfl 11 ■ It lIIIIDV6 9fQ If* Iff \ ft W */// M\ V/ / summoned. 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Heart Failure Bladder Troubles. jbß|rv W Almost daily you read of prominent ■ ■ vmwivvi known as Uric Acid. Uric Acid is MfHHHHBr kMnwteealrit i? due to^lelk® Im' women ' <to say nothi ng the The urinary organs are probably the mS oSrie" b 5 thl VSBSflflfl|^BfSlW Kianey aisease. it is due co a weak, im- thousands of people in the every-day most important part of the sew r age sys- blood into the kidneys. It is the pure condition of the blood caused by wa lkof life, of which no mention is made tern in the human body. It is their duty dut y of the k'dneys to filter this rMM mfeMl 0 m Print,) dying from Heat t failure. The to carry off the poisonous matter that neys, and soon their interiors become a cause back of it all is—sick kidneys, the kidneys separate from the blood. It cured is with Morrow’s Kid-ne-cids. J///Jffm festering, rotten mass, giving off the When the kidneys are sick, all the other is an absolute necessity that the urinary “ virulent and most poisonous matter. This organs are affected. Dizzy spells, faint- organs be kept in good condition if they DROPSY f////////// poison gets into the blood and makes it ing spells, pain in the back, frequent se- are to carry off all the poisons passed Is becoming a very com- §(//////BMmSuMmK still more virulent. Bright’s Disease is vere headaches, failing or indistinct them by the kidneys. Generally speak- I f on disea . se 111 latter Ml/////mmußuUMm insidious because it exists a long time vision with flashes of light or floating ing, the kidneys cause all troubles in the fearful ailments to which mSL/ufsx/StS^^v without the knowledge of its victim. It specks are all ominous warnings of im- urinary organs. When the kidneys get Sesh is heir. 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