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Edgefield Advertiser PHOS. J. ADAMS,.EDITOR THURSDAY, FEB. 16, 1893. The prices of all ammoniated guanos have advanced rapidly within a few days. What in the world has become of Miss Elizabeth Rose Cleveland, the President's sister-?-- - "Cotton acreage mnst and shall be reduced." So says-12$ cent .bacon and 15 cent lard. Instead of prohibiting the carry ing of concealed weapons the Leg islature of Tennessee has passed a law requiring a $5 license from the carrier. The Piedmont Headlight, Col. Larry Gant fe paper, had a very funny editorial last week on "Judge Simonton too big for his breeches." The crowd which will witness the inauguration of President Cleveland will probably be five times that of the crowd at any pre vious inaugurations. Gov. Tillman and staff will participate in the pa rade. At Cleveland's last inaugural ball, the night of March 4, '85, it waB bitter cold, and the refreshments froze, salads, meats, turnip, greens, and all. At Harrison's in augural, four years later, it rained in torrents, fore-shadowing the gloom that was to rest upon the President's household and that of several members of his cabinet. President Harrison can say with Antonis : I hold the world but as the world : A stage where every man must play a part. And mine a sad one. The Agricultural Hall case has come to th*? front again. Mr. C. B. Wesley,*of New York, the hold er of the old radical Bcript has brought suit against Secretary of State Tindall for the payment of $350,000 of this old fraudulent paper. Mr. Westley seeing that the Federal court in this State is prejudiced against Tillman, hopes to turn this prejudice to his own advantage, and have his old nappy stuff declared valid. Our own State Supreme Court has decided that this entire issue was invalid, but if an inferior Federal court . can retain jurisdiction of a case in which the Supreme Court of the .United States decides it has no jurisdiction, for a stronger reason this same inferior court may over rule a decision of our State Su preme Court. ___ -c-L-1_" - UliU.J.Ul_jg of th is issue the decision of Judges Goff and Simonton in the railroad cases. This decision is against the State and orders that the sheriffs who made the levies on the rail roads pay a fine of $500 each. They have not done so, however, and under Gov. Tillman's instruc tion, will not, until the Supreme Court of the United States has passed upon the matter. Exactly how the State will get this case be fore the Supreme Court has not yet been fully determined. In fact it strikes us very forcibly that the court has outgeneraled our side, and cut us off from an appeal alto gether, or so manceuvered that in case an appeal be possible it wjll be placed on the Supreme Court calender in its regular order and may not be heard in three years. In the meantime the railroads are free, and may or may not pay their taxes as they choose. If Jud se Simon ton had com mitted the sheriffs to jail because they levied on the railroad prop erty contrary to his original and first order restraining them from so doing, a writ of habeas ^corpus might have been sued out to the Supreme Court, and the whole question of the legality of the tax determined by that body, but should he commit them now for a . failure to pay the $500 fine, the | J question would not be on the legal ity of the levy, but on the question of contempt alone, and the Sn- c prem? Court might not hear the j case. PORT ROYAL UNBOTTLED. Judge Aldrich has decided that the Central Railroad, must loose c her hold, and that the Port Royal < Railroad can go it alone. In a de- i cisi?n just rendered the judge has c confirmed the appointment of Re- c cc ;ver J. H. Averill, and requires b 'o give a $10,000 bond for the t ?, ? .""^charge of his duties as c sue %iver. t Sp.. * of this matter the Au- c gusta Eve. News says : i "The courts, ?tate officials and 1 the patriots are hard at work un bottling Port Royal, and they will succeed. They are succeeding now, and they will keep up the good 1 work. Port Royal's opening will t be an opening of Augusta to for eign trade and through business a between the continents, and when , the doors are opened the people and commerce will come. Augusta's future is certain and t Port Royal's unbottling will help t ns. The two places depend much ? upon each other, for Augusta will ' be the metropolis and Port Royal will be the greatest harbor and F trading port on the South Atlantic c coast." / t RAILROADS VICTORIOUS' Sheriffs Find For Contempt Of Court. FHE UNITED STATE OP AMEBICA, DISTRICT OP SOUTH CAROLINA Fourth Circuit-In Equity. Sx parte D. H. Chamberlain, Receiver, petitioner, vs. Mc. Mitchell, Treasurer of Aiken County, and M. V. Tyler Sheriff of Aiken County, in re. Frederick ^. Bound'Vs: the 'South Caro lina Railway Campany. _ , Under , an, order ot-this, court, filed on the 5th day of December, 1889, in a cause within its jurisdic tion, Bound TB. South Carolina Railway Cpmpany, et al., D.H. Chamberlain, the petitioner, was appointed receiver of the South Carolina Railway Company. By this order all of the property of the railway company came and remained in the custody of the court, protected by injunction, and was placed in the care and management of the receiver as the organ and agent of the court. The petition sets forth that the possession thus confided to him has been disturbed, and that M.V. Tyler, Sheriff of Aiken County,has distrained and has taken possession of a train of fourteen freight cars in the custody and control of such receiver. That of these fourteen cars five belong to the receiver, and nine belong to roads outside of this State, but for the purposes of inter commerce were in the care of the receiver as such. That eight of them are laden with merchandise be longing to private persons.in this Suite in the hands of the receiver as a common carrier. That the property in the custody of the court, and in the hand of its receiver, has been assessed for taxation. That this assessment was illefal and void because of ex cessive valuation and discrimina tion .That the receiver had tendered and paid the full sum undoubtedly due on lawful assessment, and that there remained unpaid in the County of Aiken the sum of $,1-215.04 and costs the said Tyler,under a distraining execu tion issued by Mac Mitchell, Coun ty Treasurer, had seized and detained the personal property aforementioned, worth in the aggregate $10,000,a large part of it being the property of third persons in the care of the receiver and in his custody as a common carrier. The petition pn?ys the protecton of the court. Upon hearing the petition, a rule to show cause was issued and served on the said M.V. justifying his action and has not released or offered to release any .part of the property detained, although the copy of the petition served on him stated facts set forth above. The bare statement that property of the value of nearly $10 ,000 has been distrained to pay $1,215.04, and that much of it belongs to third parties in no sense responsible for the tax even if it be valid, would imperatively require the interference by injunc tion on the part of lhe court having this property in its custody. I Section 280 of the Statutes of | South Carolina authorizes the i sheriff to distrain for non-payment of taxes sufficient personal property | of the party charged with the tax to pay the same. This is the limit j sf this authority. Of course he j should not be confined to just] 3nough property to pay the tax. j But he cannot under cover of this I iistrain upon $10,000 for $125.04. | Nor under any circumstance can ae distrain the property of person0 )ther than the taxpayer. We cannot escape the conclusion that the purpose of the sheriff | ?fas not to follow the law, and that J lis action was the results of predetermination and intention to joerce the receiver and thiel ;ourt into the payment of the excessive tax, notwithstanding ind despite the claim that it was [ Ilegal and void. But the case will not be rested I >n this ground There can be no i ioubt that property in the hands )f a receiver of any court, either j )f a State or of the United States, s as much bound for the payment | )f taxes,State, county and muni-j ?ipal as any other property. Persons cannot by coming into j his court, and for the promotion >f their interests, obtain exemp i?n from the paramount duty of | iitizen. jEor this reason receivers i n this district pay all just and awful taxes without asking or ?eediug the sanction of the com : ind in their accounts such pny neuts are passed without qnes ijn. Button the other hand receivers re not bound to pay a tax in heir judgment unlawful, without he order of the court. And when hey consider the legality of the ax questionable it is their right heir manifest duty, to apply to the ourt either for iustrnction or! ?rotection. Especially is this the | ase when the question arises be ween the receiver* nd persona in the State, county and munici government as to the proper c struction to be given to the upon which individuals may T differ, and it is his right ; manifest duty to go to the cc whose creature-he is, for inst] tion. He therefore pursued proper ceurse when he came by this petition. The research of counsel on t sides of this case has succeeded finding five cases in which a ceiver waa driven to seek protection of the court in matter of taxation, all of then persuasive authority ; none them of conclusive authority. ' A petition was filed by a rece: before Judge Brewer in Cen Railroad Company vs. Wabf 26 Fed. Rep., ll, praying pro? tion from the payment of a tax. appeared that the only reason the application was that it inconvenient to the receiver pay the lax, and that its valii was in no way questioned. ' petition was rejected. But learned Judge shows he wo have entertained the petition. This is his language: "In levy and collecting taxes the Stat exercising its sovereign pov There should be no interfere with its collection of these ta in its precribed and reg? methods, even by a court hav property in the possession of receiver, unless it is first char that the taxes are in some y illegal or excessive." A bill was filed in Hewitt New York and Oswego Midla Railroad, 12 Blatch., 452, by ceivers, to test the legality ( tax. It was heard by Mr. Jus Blatchford, who entertained question, discussingit in a long i elaborate opinion and sustai: the legalisy of the tax. The S? receivers came before him ag in Stevens us. the Railway C< pany, 13 Blatch., 104' and asl relief from the same tax beca of some irregularity, Naturi and properly, it haring been cided that that tax was legal, dismissed the petition. As we have said, a recei must pay all legal taxes and the couit will not interfere protect him if he attempt to eso from such payment. In Rail rc Company vs. Georgia, 3 Woo 437, Mr. Justice Bradley did terfere with the snmmary proc if collecting taxes by the Sts and in his well considered and a opinion established the right interference upon the high Two cases were found by Sti courts-County of Yuba vs. Adai 7 Cal., 35; and Georges County Clark et el., 36 Maryland, 209. T first case distinctly shows th the court entertained jurisdicti of a claim of a county for ta? The second annuls a sale ma of properly for taxes becuase tl property was in the hands of tl court. Thc decisions of aili the Stat? of the Union, and of the Supren Court of the United States, a; full of cases ' determining tl validity of a State tax or ot mun cipal taxes, imposed under tl authority of the State Legislatur The Supreme Court of tha Unite States has not declared a Stal tax so imposed invalid, it has als reversed the decision of the com of last resort of the State sus ta ir ing the tax. In this court, we fin H?ge vs Railroad Company, 9 U. S., g49 ; Tomlinson vs. Brauer 15 Wall, 460; Tomlison vs. Jessu 15 Wall, 454. All cases seekin injuncion against the State Audito in the matter of taxation, h Savannah vs. Jessup, 196 U. S. 563, the court decided a tax o the city Savannah invalid. At the April term of this court 1892, the case of the Richmouc and Danville Railroad Com pain vs. J. R. Blake et al., count] treasurers and sheriffs) involving the identical questions raised ir this case was heard by a full bench and decided. The case came up on pleadings selected by the defendants themselves. Every question made as to the legali ty of the valuati m was made in this case, and the discrimination and the right and duty of the court to interfere therein, was heard. The excess was pronounced void. This decision has not been reversed It has not been appealed from. It. is an authority of great weight with us. Indeed, as there is yet an opportunity of reviewing it in the Supreme Court we would at all events await the result of snch an appeal. When, therefore, (he receiver corar s i:iio this court and asks in structions, predicating his ,-ction on the decision in this case, we grant him relief by suspending the callection of the tax until the presumption of the soundness of the case has been overcome. Besides this, we would not in this collater al way on a rule pass upon the question either of the'validity or invalidity of the tax. The only remaining question is as to the jurisdiction of the court^. and its right lo protect the property. By the case o f Boun<jl vs. the Railway Company, as we have seen, all the property of the South Carolina Railway within this State came under'the jurisiction of this court. It assumed possession of this property and it thus has jurisdiction over the entire sub ject matter, every part and par cel thereof. All property in ' the hands of a receiver is in the custody of the court. No one, whoever he may, be can iutesfere with it, without the sanction or permission of the Court. Wis writ vs. Sampson 14 How. 52. The learned counsel who replied for the sheriffs, with a frankness which does him great credit, ad mitted the general rule as to the sanctity of property in the hands of a court. And that when juris diction has once attached in this Circuit Court in the original case, it can extend its protection to property even if its value be less than $2,000. He contends that to this general proposition there is one exception, when the officers of a State come in and take.-the prop erty for taxation. He argues that the taxing power ?s a high exercise of sovereignty, and that to permit, a court to interfere with the col lection of a tax is to invade_the sovereign right and to embar/ass the government. But we have seen that courts all ever this country hare entertained cases involving tho validity of ? State tax, in many cases imposed by the Legislature, and. in very many instances have declared the tax invalid, of Slate Legislatures in whom are vested 'more of the attributes of sovereignty than any other departments of tliej?tate governments. There are many cases of this kind in the reports of the courts of South Carolina. In H??U vs. Railroad Company, 17 S. C., 221, upon a claim mad" by the State for taxes upoi. property, in -Ibe nauds of a receiver, the court ex amined into the validity of the claim and rejected i*. In the very recent cases of National Bank vs. Cromer, 35 S. C., 230; the State ex rel., ve. Aoyd, 35 S. C., 233 ; the Supreme Court of South Carolina, examined into the validity of the action of the Comptroller General in a matter of the assessment of property for taxation, and after examination set it aside.The court quotes with approval the language of Moses, C. J., in %e State vs. County Treasurers;,4 S. The power to tax is the most ex tensive and unlimited of all the powers which a legislative body can exert. It is without restraint, except by constitutional restric tions. To tie up the hand (of the, court) that can alone resist its un lawful encroachment would not only render uncertain the- tenure by which the citizen holds his property, but makes it tributary to the unrestrained demands of the Legislature. The language of Miller, Justice, in United States vs. Lee,I06 U. S., 220, is not inappropriate: ' The defense stands here solely upon the absolute immunity from judi cial inquiry of every one who as serts authority from the executive branch of the government, how ever clear it may be made that the executive possessed no such power. Not only no such power is given, but it is absolutely prohibited, both to the executive and .the legisla tive." It is not claimed that the State in [order to obtain .payment" of its taxes must come into court by petition and get an order for it. On the contrary, as has been said the paramount right of the State has always been acknowledged, recognized and faithfully preser ved. Without any interferece whatever on her part her priority is maintained and observed. But when persons assuming to act in the name of the State seize upon, without notice, and assert e?Risive possession of property in the hands of the reciver and under the ! protection of this court, and whilst so assuming to act take pro perty greatly in excess of the sum claimed the court must and will interfere. At the hearing a nnmber of affidavits ware read going to the issue was this a legal .tax. Upon a rule of this kind it is not com potent for us to go into this question. It must be made in a direct proceeding. Such pro ceedings are already on file in this court. We recognize that the ques tion has not been finally decided, and for this reason our in junction goes ouly until a further order. If testimony be offered iii the orderly way, and if the fact be established that the assessment and the tax*s levied ther?under are just and lawful, it will afford pleasure to the court, and it wilt be its duty, to order it paid forth with as a paramouot lien ou all the property and funds in the handy of the receiver. (Signed) N. GOFF, Circuit. Judge. CHAULES H. SIMONTON, District Judge. Feb. 16, 1893. Bring your school checks at the ADVEUTISER office, if you want 9.? per cent, of their face value. At last the country has obtained some authentic information re garding the personnel of the President-elect's Cabinet. Five out of the eight places appear to have been definitely disposed of as follows : Secretary of State, Walter Q. Gresham,, of Illinois; Secretary of the Treasury, John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky ; Postmaster- General, Wilsbn S. Bissell, of New York ; Secretary of War, Daniel, S. Lamont, of New York ; Secretar}' of the Interior, Hoke Smith, .of Georgia. This leaves three places still to be filled but any discussion as to these would be the purest gueriswork, though if I were to venture a guess as to one, if would be that Hilary A. Herbert, of Alabama, will have the Navy port folio. Tlie Age of Cmil Burning;. I have heard that when King Hudson, In the zenith of his fame, was asked aa to vrhat his railways were to do when all the coal was burned ont, he replied, that hy that tinia we should have learned how to burn water. Those who are asked the same question now will often reply that they will use electricity, ?nd doubt less think that they have thus disposed of the question. The fallacy of snub answers is obvious. A so called "water gas" may no doubt be used for developing heat, but it in not the water which supplies the energy. Trains may be run by electricity, but all that thc electricity does is to convey the energy from the point whero lt ii generated to the train which is H> mo tion. 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Any amounts received on de osit in the Savings Department, from 10 cents upwards, nprl GEO. W. CRANE, "otton Commission Merchant, AUGUSTA, GA. Ir you me not otherwise obligated, I would bog to ofter my services for ie sale of your Cotton lins season My commission will be 60?5 per bale. This ivers storage for ten days. After this time storage will be charged 15? per ile by the month. Feeling assured of giving satisfaction, with fair weights id prompt sales at full market prices. Close storage. I remain yours truly, GKEO- W. C?^A^l 33 {