Excerpt from Current Opinion, Vol. 55: July-December, 1913; With Index The U. 5. Senate Decides to Investigate West Virginia. Very question that arises nowadays in national politics seems in one way or another to impinge upon that twi light zone where the end of the powers of the state and the be ginning of the powers of the nation merge more or less indistinctly. The dispute with Japan has brought that zone clearly into view. The Minnesota railway rate cases have done the same. In the regulation of the trusts the same region stands out clearly in all the discussions. And now the troubles in West Virginia between the miners and the mine-owners has resulted in action by the United States Senate which goes further. According to Senator Bacon, than anything yet done to break down the rights and powers originally reserved by the states. It is the first time in the history of the country, says the New: and Courier of Charles ton, S. C.. That Congress has ventured to undertake an investigation of the official acts of the executive author ities of a sovereign state. Opposing the act for the appointment of a com mission of inquiry. Senator Bacon said If the time has come when the official acts of a state through its courts cannot be depended upon to establish and do justice and maintain order: if the time has come when that particular function which the Supreme Court of the United States times without number has saidto be the function of the state can no longer be left to the states; it the time has come when the states can no longer be relied upon to accomplish and perform that duty, then we have ruched the sad period when our dual system of govern ment is a failure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.