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CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER'S DECISIONS.From Law Notes.—By 8amusl Want.Chief Justice Fuller was confronted with several phases of the negro question during his long career on the supreme bench. For falling to protect a negro prisoner from being lynched after an order was made by the Supreme Court staying proceedings pending an appeal by the negro from an order of a lower federal court denying him relief on habeas corpus, he held Sheriff Shipp, of Chattanooga, Tenn.. guilty of contempt (United States v. 214 U. S. 386). In Thomas vs. Texas, 212 U. S. 278, he refused to reverse the conviction of a negro on the ground that race prejudice In the place of his conviction was so strong that negroes were excluded from the list of persons drawn to serve as jurors. He concured In holding that the federal courts have no jurisdiction, under the Federal oCnstitution or laws, of a conspiracy to prevent negroes from making or fulfilling labor contracts made and carried out In a State (Hodges v. United States, 203 U. S. 8); and that State statutes prohibiting corporations from teaching white and colored children together (Berea College v. Kentucky, 211 U. 8. 45), and requiring rtflroad companies to provide separate coaches or compartments for whites and blacks (Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. 8. 537) are constitutional.
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The Twin City Star
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Thu, Aug 11, 1910
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