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ig enders of civit libef Ui n the WN: { 9 overrule the his @fénal guarantees. very taxes pow before us are better adapted ‘to that end than were the stamp faxes which so successfully cur- oRed anebicaa tailed the dissemination of !dees4 fsons other than membere of the by Eighteenth Century newspapers? @f ian DELS ‘ and pamphieteers, and which were eases m moving cause of the American Revolution.” “recto ‘he license taxes were apheld ® by a & to 4 decision, with Justice: Byrnes voting with the Thajority, Jzo that his resignation leaves the agcourt equally divided on this mo- Hmentous issue. Whether the pe- tition for @ rehearing will be *\ granted may be announced by the court next Monday. The Amer!- 5jean Newspaper Publishers’ As-' “leeciation and the American Civil. «\Liperttes Union have filed Imter- “lvening petitions as friends of the “i court. : — é t * Might Changs Mind - Conceivably one of the Justices, who voted with the majority! might change his mind and admit, that the case was wrongly de-| cided. This ia precisely what _ | dustices Frank Murphy, Hugo L.: m Black, and William ©. Douglas #idid in « dissenting opinion when ; the case was decided on June. ii They reversed the position they | “ltook jn wm similar case, involving _lthe same religiqus cult, two years ‘Mago, because of apprehensions #8 “i rig and views © norities. “Ohief Justice Btone was the JCourt, delivered by Justice Reed,' jone dissenter two years ago, when implied that there are moral as! jthe majority opinion was de: well as military limits to freedom) f ‘ and unctioning, I € at only Congress may sus- pend ine . wut at habeas carp US, én only in case or or nection. ' of fnvasicn Constitution of the United |; States 1s a law for rulers and pee| Ble, equaliy in war and peace, and |Fis covers with the shield of its pro tection all classes of men,. at a}! times. ond ender all cireum-! Milligan case. : = me emiment is not confined ta safe- arding freedom of apeech and eedom of religion against dis minatory attempta to wine them t, On the contrary, the Constitu- ... has put those freedoms _ smends are not restricted. to, canes Seek Rehearing - , where the protected privilege is ; Jehovah's Witnesses are seek- ten nt out fer every ome a tex: mg a rehearing of three cases, |latigh which, because it is a di- considered simuitaneousiy, tr bet the exercise of the ‘drlvi- which the court upheld license | [!ese{\ is capable of being to ordinances in Opelika, Ala.: Fort eonHol or suppress tet Smith, Ark. and Casx Grande, _ Arig, Each ordinance forbids the lx selling of books, pamphlets, tracts } and other articles without « li! cense, for which taxes ranging from $10 a year in Alabame to $25. a month in Arkansas are levied. The majority opinion of the! 2 : > Loft expression, “T | Iivered by Justice Felix Frank-, |9. o proscribe the furter. To win ® majority of the: dissemination of doctrines or ar- eich the Chief Justice muat con-. jementa which do not transgress 4 ‘ .{militgry nor moral limits is to ‘vert either the new Justice to be ¢ dest h Lappointed by President Roosevelt, etToey principe 1 bases of de- Tor one of the following: Owen J.| gion,” The coeaeege and discus- Roberts, Stanley F. Reed, Robert , _——— _ H. Jackson and Frankfurter.