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Eighty-one, or oxm-lly half of the cities in the 

 foregoing table, arc in the States (including Penn- 

 sylvania and the District <>t ( 'nlumhia) on the 

 Atlantic seaboard. 



Of the total population represented by the 101 

 cities in 1900 ( 19,757,01 K), 1 0,0!s, <)!)(;, ( ,\- rl.l per 

 cent., were contained in the 70 cities in DM- North 

 Atlantic division, and 0,097,884, or :>0.i) per cent., 

 in the 49 cities in the Nprth Central division' 



New York is the first city of the (ounli v in 

 the number of its inhabitants, a place which it 

 has held at every census, beginning with that of 

 the year 1790. Chicago, with practically 1,700.- 

 000 inhabitants, and Philadelphia, with not quite 

 1,300,000, hold the second and third places in 1000 

 as they did in 1890, although at the census of 

 1880 their positions were the reverse, Philadelphia 

 then having very nearly 850,000 inhabitants com- 

 pared with not much more than 500,000 for Chi- 

 cago. St. Louis, Boston, and Baltimore, the next 

 largest cities, have not changed their ranks in 

 1900, and each of these three cities now has a 

 population somewhat in excess of 500,000. Boston 

 was a fourth city in rank in 1880, but was passed 

 by St. Louis in 1890, while Baltimore has occupied 

 the sixth place at each of the three census periods 

 considered. Cleveland and Buffalo have both in- 

 creased materially in population during the past 

 ten years, and now take precedence over San 

 Francisco and Cincinnati, which in 1890 occupied 

 the seventh and eighth places. Pittsburg also 

 shows a large increase in population since 1890, 

 and is now the eleventh city in the country, hav- 

 ing exchanged places with New Orleans. 



The Supreme Court. There is but one term 

 of the court each year, beginning on the second 

 Monday of October. The number of cases dock- 

 eted and pending at the October term, 1900, was 

 723, of which 377 were disposed of during the 

 term. The number actually considered by the 

 court was 368, of which 179 were argued orally 

 and 152 were submitted on printed arguments. 

 Among the cases of general interest decided were 

 the following: 



The Neely Case. The case of Neely vs. Henkel 

 involved the relations between the United States 

 and Cuba, and was decided Jan. 14, 1901. Neely 

 was charged with embezzling public funds in Cuba 

 while acting as financial agent of the Department 

 of Posts of that island. The case involved the 

 right of the Cuban authorities to extradite him 

 for trial in Cuba. By act of June 6, 1900, the 

 provisions of United States Revised Statutes, 

 section 5270, were extended to foreign countries 

 " occupied by or under the control of the United 

 States." After a careful review of the relations 

 of Cuba to the United States resulting from the 

 Spanish- American War, the court said : " The 

 facts above detailed make it clear that within 

 the meaning of the act of June 6, 1900, Cuba is 

 foreign territory. It can not be regarded in any 

 constitutional, legal, or international sense a part 

 of the territory of the United States." The court 

 unanimously directed the extradition of Neely 

 to Cuba. 



Stamp Tax on Export Bills of Lading. Fair- 

 bank vs. United States was decided April 15, 

 1901. 



The Northern Pacific Railway Company and 

 Frank M. Fairbank, its agent, were charged with 

 refusal to affix a 10-cent revenue stamp to certain 

 export bills of lading under Schedule A of the 

 war-revenue act. The case was tried in the United 

 States district court at Minneapolis, Minn., before 

 a jury, and a verdict of guilty was rendered 

 against both the company and its agent, and a 

 fine of $25 was imposed upon each of the de- 



