Abstract

The Week

This article presents information about politics. The most important amendment to the National Bank Bill was that which provides that all suits brought by or against national banks shall be tried in the same courts in which suits brought by or against other banks are tried, i.e., in the State courts, if the parties to the suit are citizens of the same State. In so far as it assumes to deprive the U.S. States courts of jurisdiction in this class of cases it is clearly unconstitutional and void. The strike which at one time promised to be among the most wide-reaching in its influence seems to have failed. The Pacific Mill strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, have spent nearly all their money and are unable to collect any more. The owners have filled their mills, partly with new operatives and partly with the old hands.