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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1900)
2 The Conservative * Lincoln , Nebraska - 1JXPOUNDKU. ka , cnu furnish the United States with a vast number of able scientists , statesmen and publicists whenever notified that such ponderous and utile personalities are required for the preservation of the federal govern ment. In Tom Cook and Brad Slaughter it gave the republic two patriots skilled in the science of securing succulent offices and they have been placed in positions to act as exemplars of piety for the amelioration of heathen in the islands of the oceans. Lincoln gave the McKinley adminis tration Houtz for collector of internal revenue and also Summers for United States district attorney and they are regarded generally as the best federal appointments thus far filled from , the state capital. Lincoln furnishes political perpetual motion also in the constant candidature of the distinguished and resonant gentle man whom the populists nominated for the presidency of the United States in 1890 , and will again nominate for the same place in 1900. Lincoln , besides bestowing a brilliant orator upon the populists , kindly donated the presidential candidate to the prohi bition party in 1896 and may consent to have Mrs. Ada M. Bittenbender nomi nated on that ticket in 1900. Lincoln , besides being the home of the famous persons above referred to , was once illuminated by the assimilation into its citizenship of Ed. R. Sizer , who is now in Cuba teaching barbaric races the value of honesty and spotlessness in personal and political character. Charles Atkinson is eminently lumi nous in the department of justice and John B. Cunningham equally incan descent as an examiner of banks , to which place he was appointed by his former partner in the practice of law , Hon. Charles G. Dawes , of Lin coln , who succeeded J. H. Eckels as comptroller of the currency. Unless Lambertson's lucrative position as an attorney for the receivers of the Union Pacific or some other railroad , be accounted a political place , Lincoln has hardly been fairly treated in passing around political pie. Bud Lindsaythe Othello to repub lican party's Desdemonain Lincoln , was a delegate to the national convention which nominated McKinley. And when one recalls the valorous contest which this swarthy son of Africa made to secure that dolegateship over Atkinson and Whedon , the wonder that Lindsay is not yet rewarded by the pious McKin ley becomes immeasurable. But last , though not least , is Mr. Charles T. Magoon , who is the regularly commissioned and inaugurated ex pounder of the constitution for the Me- Hanua and Elkins administration. Mr. Magoou before leaving Lincoln had been recognized as the greatest constitutional lawyer in that city and therefore his interpretations of the fundamental law of the republic , now wired from the war department to seventy millions of people , need not bo questioned. "So long as the political department of this government , " Mr. Magoou as sorts , "elects to Specimen. . . treat said islands as being outside of the territorial boundaries of the United States , the question of excluding objectionable per sons or races is of easy solution. The products of the territory have no greater rights of entry into the United States than have the inhabitants. The laws of the United States , regulating commerce with that territory , have not been altered. Congress has not changed them , and certainly the executive , acting alone , cannot do so , and has not made the attempt to perform such unauthor ized functions. The laws regulating navigation and coast trading in the United States have not been extended over said territory and cannot be with out appopriate action by congress. " Mr. Magoou states that the inhabitants of the islands , not being citizens of the . . , United States , do Another. not possess the right of free entry into the United States. The rights of immigration into the United States by the inhabitants of the islands are no more than those of aliens of the same race coming from foreign lands. The Chinese residents will be excluded under the provisions of the Chinese exclusion act. "The treaty with Spain , " the opinion continues , "did not attempt to naturalize the inhabitants of the islands acquired by the United States. On the contrary , it provided that the civil rights and political status of the inhabitants shall be determined by congress. It follows that they can become citizens only by a specific act of congress. " Mr. Magoon says the power to extender or contract the territorial boundaries of th0 United Sfcat6S Some More. is vested in the two houses of congress , acting with the approval of the executive , and is not to be exercised by the president , either as chief executive or as commander-in-chief of the military forces. Mr. Magoon holds "there can be no question that the territory without the boundaries of the United States is not bound and privileged by our constitu tion. " Mr. Magoon believes congress and the executive must determine whether the boundaries of the United States shall be extended to include any or all of the islands of Porto Rico , the Philippines and Guam. Mr. Magoon denies that the inhabi tants of the islands are citizens of the United States , though , he says , they are entitled to call upon this government to protect them in their rights of property and person , to preserve the public peaoe , maintain law and order and prevent encroachments upon the territory by foreign nations. Corelatively the in habitants owe allegiance to the sovereignty eignty and obedience to the laws whereby the sovereignty undertakes to discharge the obligation. The sovereignty eignty and jurisdiction of the United States , having attached to the islands , persons continuing therein are subject to the laws put in force herein by the United States without regard to their citizenship , with such exceptions as are in force in other territory subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. "It seems incontrovertible , " continues Mr. Magoou , "that the unorganized ter- ritory of the * r * . . _ . CongrvHH Must Provide - - , , , vide for Them. United States IS not bound and benefited by the constitution and laws of the United States until congress has made appropriate provisions therefore. And if congress shall , by appropriate action , extend the territorial boundaries of the United States to include the islands acquired by the nation during the late war with Spain , and thereafter continue said islands in the condition of unorganized territory governed by the sovereign powers of the nation , the exercise of said sovereign powers will not be directed , limited or controlled by the expressed provisions of the consti tution. " NOTTKUE. . land , who left the democratic party , chiefly because he said it was a populist organization , was the first man to bring about a fusion arrangement with the populists. He telegraphed orders to Nebraska to that effect in 1892. Mr. Morton will probably remember it. Fremont Herald. The above statement as to telegraph ing or influencing or attempting to influence a demo-pop amalgamation , so far as it regards Grover Cleveland , is unqualifiedly false. Mr. Morton , however , remembers that attempts were made to induce Nebraska democrats to vote for the populist elec tors in 1892. He recognized then that the advice was given for the purpose of getting votes away from the democratic gold-standard nominees for state offices. He saw verification of his views by treachery of the free silverites in the First congressional district. M c- THE PHILIPPINE COAIMISSION.Kinley has named for the new Philip pine commission , Judge William H. Taft , of Ohio , United States Circuit Judge , to be president ; Prof. Dean 0. Worcester , of the University of Michi gan and a member of the former com mission ; Henry O. Ide , formerly Chief Justice of Samoa ; Luke E. Wright , of Tennessee , a well known lawyer ; Prof. Bernard Moses , of the chair of political economy in the University of California , V.
