ALICE MAUD MARY, PRINCESS. 



AMAT, LUIGI. 



the government thereof, and in so far as such cor- 

 porations exercise power, particularly the power to 

 levy taxes, such power is part and parcel of the sov- 

 ereign authority of the State in its highest preroga- 

 tive ; and 



Whereas, The jurisdiction asserted by the Courts 

 of the United States over suits against such corpora- 

 tions, and particularly the jurisdiction by writ of 

 mandamus to compel such corporations to exercise 

 sovereign power of levying taxes, in the opinion of 

 the General Assembly, is an encroachment upon the 

 rights of the States, preserved in the Constitution 

 of the United States, and a plain violation of that 

 clause of the Constitution which declares u that the 

 judicial power of the United States shall not be con- 

 strued to extend to any suit in law or equity, com- 

 menced or prosecuted against one of the United 

 States, by citizens of another State, or by citizens or 

 subjects of any foreign state," because a suit or pro- 

 ceeding which compels the exercise of the highest 

 attribute of sovereignty reserved to the State, namely, 

 the power to levy taxes upon its citizens, is in sub- 

 stance and effect a suit or proceeding against the 

 State, binding and controlling its action in the mat- 

 ter most vital to its existence ; and 



Whereas, The continued exercise of such jurisdic- 

 tion will doubtless lead in the future, as in the past, 

 to unseemly conflict between Federal and State au- 

 thority, detrimental to that respect for law and es- 

 tablished authority which is the foundation of soci- 

 ety and free government ; and 



Whereas, The General Assembly observes with 

 great joy the increasing respect and reverence 

 throughout the land for the form of government es- 

 tablished by the fathers, and believes that it is the 

 paramount will of all the people that this form of 

 government shall be maintained in its true spirit in- 

 tact for ever, and to accomplish this purpose the har- 

 monious cooperation of State and Federal authority 

 under the Constitution of the United States is indis- 

 pensable: therefore, 



Resolved by the General Assembly of Alabama, That 

 our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our 

 Representatives be requested, to urge the enactment 

 of such laws as may be necessary to prevent the ex- 

 ercise of jurisdiction by the Courts of the United 

 States of suits or proceedings against municipal cor- 

 porations in the several States. 



Resolved, That the Governor be requested to for- 

 ward a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolu- 

 tion to Hon. John T. Morgan, of the Senate, and to 

 each of the Representatives from this State in Con- 

 gress. 



Referred to the Committee on Federal Re- 

 lations. 



On November 27th Governor Cobb was in- 

 augurated, and delivered an address to the 

 Legislature. The retiring Governor, George 

 S. Houston, was subsequently elected Senator 

 to represent the State in the Federal Congress, 

 in the place of .George E. Spencer. Mr. Hous- 

 ton was elected in 1865, but not allowed to take 

 his seat. 



ALICE MAUD MARY, Grand Duchess of 

 Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess of England, second 

 daughter of Queen Victoria, born at Windsor 

 Castle, April 25, 1843, died December 14, 

 1878. Princess Alice was perhaps the best 

 known and the best loved of all the daughters 

 of Queen Victoria. She became especially en- 

 deared to the English people during her father's 

 last illness, when her name became " synony- 

 mous with a father's farewell and a mother's 

 consolation." On July 1, 1862, she was mar- 

 ried to Prince Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt, 



the grandson of the Grand Duke Ludwig II. 

 and nephew of the Grand Duke Ludwig III. 

 As the position of her husband was not such 

 as to compel his residence in his paternal do- 

 minions, the young couple remained more than 

 a year in England, and their eldest daughter, 

 Princess Victoria, was born at Windsor Castle, 

 April 5, 1863. The married life of the Prin- 

 cess was very happy, and blessed with seven 

 children, five girls and two boys. The eldest 

 son, Prince Ernst Ludwig Karl Albrecht, was 

 born November 25, 1868, and was consequently 

 ten years old at the death of his mother. The 

 youngest son, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Au- 

 gust Victor Leopold Ludwig, born October 7, 

 1870, was accidentally killed by falling from a 

 window, May 27, 1873. The youngest Prin- 

 cess, Marie Victoria Feodore Leopoldine, born 

 May 24, 1874, died a few days before her moth- 

 er, of diphtheria, the same disease to which 

 her mother succumbed. Princess Alice made 

 herself very popular in Germany by her ac- 

 tivity in promoting hospital arrangements dur- 

 ing the Franco-German war, when she was a 

 constant visitor at the "Alice Hospital" in 

 Darmstadt and President of the Alice Frauen- 

 verein or women's association for charitable 

 purposes, affiliated to the Berlin Vaterlandische 

 Verein. She was also an earnest patron of 

 education and literature, and zealously inter- 

 ested herself in many movements for liberal 

 reform. She sent her oldest son for education 

 to a kindergarten in Darmstadt, where at her 

 express demand no distinction whatever was 

 made between him and the other children. On 

 June 13, 1877, her husband succeeded his child- 

 less uncle, Ludwig III., as Grand Duke of 

 Hesse. Her death occurred on the anniver- 

 sary of the death of her father, Prince Albert, 

 when most of the royal family were assembled 

 at Windsor Castle for the customary memorial 

 services. 



AMAT DI SAN FILIPPO E SORSO, LUI- 

 GI, Cardinal Bishop of Ostia and Velletri, Dean 

 of the Sacred College, and Vice-Chancellor of 

 the Holy Roman Church, born June 21, 1796, 

 died March 30, 1878. After receiving his edu- 

 cation in the ecclesiastical Academy of Noble- 

 men, he was at the age of twenty-three appoint- 

 ed domestic prelate. On April 9, 1827, Leo XII. 

 named him Archbishop of Nicea inpartibus, 

 and sent him as Apostolical Nuncio to Naples. 

 Subsequently this position was changed for 

 that of Nuncio in Spain, where, in consequence 

 of the will of Ferdinand VII., a civil war had 

 broken out. At both courts he was quite suc- 

 cessful, and the succeeding Popes, Pius VIII. 

 and Gregory XVI., held him in high honor. 

 In 1837 he was created Cardinal. In the fol- 

 lowing year he was sent as Apostolical Legate 

 to Ravenna, where he remained six years, and 

 became an intimate friend of Cardinal Mastai- 

 Ferretti, who was then Archbishop of Imola 

 (subsequently Pope Pius IX.). Having been 

 recalled to Rome, he was made prefect of the 

 economical department of the Propaganda and 



