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Lincoln , Nebraska -
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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 ,
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