smith kansas city title trust argued decided february wm marshall bullitt louisville frank hagerman kansas city appellant charles hughes george wickersham new york city appellees justice day delivered opinion bill filed district western division western district missouri shareholder kansas city title trust company enjoin company officers agents employees investing funds company farm loan bonds issued federal land banks land banks authority federal farm loan act july stat comp amended act stat comp comp ann supp relief sought ground acts beyond constitutional power congress bill avers board directors company invest funds bonds amount classes described unless enjoined action bill avers formation federal land banks land banks provisions act federal land banks averred loaned upon farm lands large amounts secured mortgage depositing farm loan registrar executed issued collateral trust obligations called loan bonds secured depositing equivalent amount farm mortgages notes said federal land banks sold continuing offer sale large amounts said farm loan bonds bill also avers various persons different parts organized land banks capital stock subscribed owned private persons land banks deposited notes mortgages farm loan registrar issued equivalent amount collateral trust obligations called loan bonds sold continued offered sale investors large amounts markets country statement given amount deposits secretary treasury federal land banks banks issued certificates indebtedness bearing interest per cent per annum averred september federal land banks owned bouds par value land banks owned like bonds par value august pursuant provisions act secretary treasury invested public funds capital stock federal land banks july secretary treasury behalf held capital stock federal land banks pursuant provisions section act amended secretary treasury purchased farm loan bonds issued federal land banks par value september bonds issued act federal land banks amount held treasury purchased authority amendment january september stock land banks incorporated act aggregate capital subscribed paid bonds issued land banks amount hands public secretary treasury time filing bill designated federal land banks land banks depositaries public money except stated later bill employed financial agents government performed duties depositaries public money accepted deposits engaged banking business bill avers summer federal land banks wichita paul spokane designated financial agents government making seed grain loans farmers sections president request secretary agriculture set aside purpose war funds three banks mentioned made upwards loans character aggregating sum upwards engaged collecting loans secured crop liens banks act capacity without compensation receiving actual expenses incurred section act provides farm loan bonds issued provisions act federal land banks stock land banks shall lawful investment fiduciary trust funds may accepted security public deposits bill avers defendant trust company authorized buy invest sell government state municipal bonds buy invest sell bonds papers stocks securities authorized issued valid law investment securities nevertheless invest farm loan bonds trust company induced direct officers make investment reason reliance upon provisions farm loan acts especially sections farm loan bonds declared instrumentalities government income derived therefrom declared exempt federal state municipal local taxation declared lawful investments fiduciary trust funds bill avers acts attempted authorize bonds wholly illegal void unconstitutional effect unauthorized constitution bill prays acts congress authorizing creation banks especially sections thereof shall adjudged decreed unconstitutional void effect issuance farm loan bonds taxation exemption feature thereof shall adjudged decreed invalid first land bank chicago federal land bank wichita allowed intervene became parties defendant suit kansas city title trust company filed motion dismiss nature general demurrer upon hearing district entered decree dismissing bill decree appeal taken objection made federal jurisdiction either original appellate parties suit question first examined company authorized invest funds legal securities attack upon proposed investment bonds described alleged unconstitutionality acts congress undertaking organize banks authorize issue bonds reason set forth bill ground objection proposed investment board directors acting company behalf diversity citizenship lacking jurisdiction district depends upon whether cause action set forth arises constitution laws judicial code comp general rule appears bill statement plaintiff right relief depends upon construction application constitution laws federal claim merely colorable rests upon reasonable foundation district jurisdiction provision early date considering grant constitutional power confer jurisdiction upon federal courts chief justice marshall said case law equity consists right one party well may truly said arise constitution law whenever correct decision depends upon construction either cohens virginia wheat ed title right set party may defeated one construction constitution law sustained opposite construction osborn bank wheat ed definitions quoted approved patton brady sup citing gold washing keyes tennessee davis white greenhow sup railroad mississippi characterization suit arising constitution laws followed many decisions federal courts see macon grocery atlantic coast line sup shulthis mcdougal sup principle applied brushaber union pacific sup ann cas shareholder filed bill enjoin defendant corporation complying income tax provisions tariff act october case diversity citizenship direct appeal sustained constitutional questions raised bill dismissed repugnancy statute constitution well grounds equitable jurisdiction set forth bill right come direct appeal sustained averments based upon constitutional objections act reference made pollock farmers loan trust sup similar shareholder right sue maintained direct appeal decree circuit held authorized brushaber case chief justice speaking said right prevent corporation returning paying tax based upon many averments repugnancy statute constitution peculiar relation corporation stockholders particualr interests resulting many administrative provisions assailed act confusion wrong multiplicity suits absence means redress result corporation paid tax complied act respects without protest alleged intention put way question jurisdiction say view averments ruling pollock farmers loan trust company sustaining right stockholder sue restrain corporation proper averments voluntarily paying tax charged unconstitutional ground permit suit violate prohibitions section rev enjoining enforcement taxes opinion contention made jurisdiction cause since entertain violate provisions revised statutes referred without merit averments citizenship residence recitals provisions statute statements business corporation contained first paragraphs bill advanced sustain jurisdiction bill alleged constitutional objections specified number paragraphs subdivisions grounds assert violation constitution follows wide sense charge repugnancy statute sixteenth amendment immediate sanction statute adopted jurisdiction determined upon principles laid cases referred instant case averments bill show directors proceeding make investments view act authorizing bonds purchased maintaining act authorizing constitutional bonds valid desirable investments objecting shareholder avers bill securities issued unconstitutional law hence validity therefore apparent controversy concerns constitutional validity act congress directly drawn question decision depends upon determination issue general allegations interest shareholder right injunction prevent purchase alleged unconstitutional securities mis application funds corporation gives jurisdiction principles settled pollock trust company brushaber union pacific company supra therefore opinion district jurisdiction averments bill direct appeal upon constitutional grounds authorized come examine questions presented attack upon constitutionality legislation question federal farm loan act lengthy set full entitled act provide capital agricultural development create standard forms investment based upon farm mortgage equalize rates interest upon farm loans furnish market bonds create government depositaries financial agents purposes administration act placed direction control federal farm loan bureau established seat government treasury department general supervision federal loan board consisting secretary treasury four members appointed president advice consent senate divided districts purpose establishing federal land banks banks must subscribed capital less divided shares may subscribed individual firm corporation government state dividends shall paid stock owned stock shall share dividend distributions without preference federal farm loan board designate five directors shall temporarily manage affairs federal land bank shall prepare organization certificate approved federal farm loan board filed farm loan commissioner shall operate create bank body corporate federal farm loan board required open books subscription capital stock federal land bank within days thereafter part minimum capitalization bank shall remain unsubscribed made duty secretary treasury subscribe balance behalf amendment january authorizes secretary treasury purchase bonds issued federal land banks provides temporary organization bank shall continued long farm loan bonds shall held treasury subscription stock bank national farm loan associations shall equal amount stock held government conditions complied permanent organization take management bank consisting board directors composed nine members three shall known district directors shall appointed farm loan board shall represent public interest six known local directors shall chosen representative national farm loan associations federal land banks empowered invest funds purchase qualified first mortgages farm lands situated within federal land bank district within organized acting loans farm mortgages made borrowers organization corporations known national farm loan associations persons desiring borrow money farm mortgage security terms act ten natural persons owners become owners farm land qualified security mortgage loans desire borrow money farm mortgage security may unite form national farm loan association manner forming associations qualifications membership set act loan desired person must less aggregate desired loans less application loan must accompanied subscriptions stock federal land bank equal aggregate sum desired mortgage loan provision made appraisal land report federal farm loan board persons borrowers farm loan mortgages shall members shareholders national farm loan associations shareholders farm loan associations made individually responsible debts association extent amount stock owned respectively addition amount paid represented shares national farm loan association shall desire secure member loan first mortgage federal land bank district must subscribe capital stock federal land bank amount per cent loan capital stock shall held federal land bank collateral security payment loan association shall paid dividends accruing payable capital stock outstanding stock may discretion directors approval federal farm loan board paid par retired shall retired upon full payment mortgage loan event national farm loan association must pay par retire corresponding shares stock issued land bank stock retired issued provided capital stock land bank shall reduced less per cent principal outstanding farm loan bonds issued shares national farm loan associations shall par value least per cent part capital federal land bank stock outstanding name national farm loan associations must held quick assets less per cent capital must invested government bonds loans federal land banks may make upon first mortgages farm lands provided section act section banks empowered subject provisions act issue sell farm loan bonds kind described act invest funds possession qualified first mortgages farm lands receive deposit trust farm loan registrar held collateral security farm loan bonds first mortgages upon farm lands approval farm loan board issue sell bonds secured deposit first mortgages qualified farm lands collateral conformity provisions section act amendment january secretary treasury empowered years purchase farm loan bonds issued federal land banks amount exceeding year federal land bank authorized time repurchase par accrued interest purpose redemption resale bonds purchased held treasury also provided bonds federal land bank purchased held treasury one year termination pending war shall upon days notice secretary treasury redeemed repurchased bank par accrued interest section provided whenever act shall effect one year shall appear federal farm loan board national farm loan associations formed likely formed locality peculiar local conditions board may discretion authorize federal land banks make loans farm lands agents approved board terms conditions subject restrictions prescribed section act also authorizes incorporation land banks capital provided private subscription organized less natural persons subject requirements provisions section act far applicable board directors shall consist less five members shareholder shall voting privileges holders shares national banking associations shall held individually responsible equally ratably one another contracts debts engagements bank extent amount stock owned par value thereof addition amount paid represented shares land bank authorized business capital stock amount subscribed paid cash balance remaining subject call board directors charter issued federal farm loan board bonds shall issued capital stock entirely paid except otherwise provided land banks shall powers subject restrictions conditions imposed federal land banks act far conditions restrictions applicable federal land banks may issue farm loan bonds times capital surplus land banks limited issue farm loan bonds excess times amount capital surplus land banks loan first mortgages upon land state located state contiguous thereto loan mortgage may made bank rate exceeding per cent per annum exclusive amortization payments stock land banks shall case charge rate interest farm loans shall exceed per cent rate extablished last series farm loan bonds issued rate shall exceed per cent per annum provisions issue farm loan bonds secured first mortgages farm lands bonds collateral made federal land banks land banks case issue made subject approval federal farm loan board farm loan mortgages bonds constitute collateral security bonds must deposited farm loan registrar section act provides follows every federal land bank every national farm loan association including capital reserve surplus therein income derived therefrom shall exempt federal state municipal local taxation except taxes upon real estate held purchased taken said bank association provisions section eleven section thirteen act first mortgages executed federal land banks land banks farm loan bonds issued provisions act shall deemed held instrumentalities government income derived therefrom shall exempt federal state municipal local taxation herein shall prevent shares land bank included valuation personal property owner holder shares assessing taxes imposed authority state within bank located assessment taxation shall manner subject conditions limitations contained section hundred nineteen revised statutes reference shares national banking associations herein shall construed exempt real property federal land banks national farm loan associations either state county municipal taxes extent according value real property taxed since decision great cases mcculloch maryland wheat osborn bank wheat longer open question congress may establish banks national purposes small part capital held government majority ownership represented shares capital stock privately owned held principal business banks private banking conducted usual methods business express power create bank incorporate one found constitution speaking chief justice marshall mcculloch maryland found authority broad general powers conferred constitution upon congress levy collect taxes borrow money regulate commerce pay public debts declare conduct war raise support armies provide maintain navy etc congress held authority use means deemed appropriate exercise great powers government virtue article section clause constitution granting congress right make laws necessary proper make grant effectual first national bank union trust sup ann cas chief justice speaking reviewing mcculloch maryland osborn bank considering power given congress pass laws make specific powers granted effectual said terms pointed broad authority stereotyped particular time endured thus furnishing perpetual living sanction legislative authority within limits discretion enabling take consideration changing wants demands society adopt provisions appropriate meet every situation deemed required provided formation bank required judgment congress fiscal operations government principal consideration upon chief justice marshall rested authority create bank purpose appropriate measure judgment congress held within authority question conclusion reached legislative branch government upon authority mcculloch maryland osborn bank national banking system established upon rested constitutionality legislation establishing banks farmers mechanics national bank dearing congress seen fit section act make classes banks designated purpose secretary treasury depositaries public money except receipts customs regulations prescribed secretary treasury authorized employment financial agents government banks required perform reasonable duties depositaries public moneys financial agents may required secretary treasury shall require federal land banks land banks thus designated satisfactory security deposit bonds otherwise prompt payment public money deposited faithful performance duties financial agents government section also provides government funds deposited provisions section shall invested mortgage loans farm loan bonds said power designate banks depositaries exercised government federal land banks acted federal agents case loans money seed purposes made summer already referred existence power constitution determined extent exercise authority conferred congress declared necessary create fiscal agencies make authorized depositaries public money power longer open question urged attempt create federal agencies make banks fiscal agents public depositaries government pretext nothing better settled decisions congress acts within limits constitutional authority province judicial branch government question motives veazie bank fenno wall mccray sup ann cas flint sup ann cas cases cited congress seen fit making banks fiscal agencies depositaries public moneys grant banking powers limited character wise detracts authority congress use governmental purposes named sees fit bank may organized without authority issue currency may authorized receive deposits limited way speaking generally bank moneyed institution facilitate borrowing lending caring money whether technically banks organizations may serve governmental purposes declared congress creation furthermore institutions organized serve market bonds less per cent capital federal land banks stock outstanding farm loan associations required invested bonds kinds banks empowered buy sell bonds first national bank trust sup ann cas supra sustained power congress enable national bank transact business considered might beyond power congress authorize case held within authority congress permit national banks exercise permission federal reserve board contravention local law office trustee executor administrator registrar stocks bonds therefore conclude creation banks grant authority act government depositaries public moneys purchasers government bonds brings within creative power congress although may intended connection privileges duties facilitate making loans upon farm security low rates interest destroy validity enactments general banking powers destroyed authority congress create bank authority given national banks carry additional activities destroyed authority congress create institutions brief filed upon reargument counsel appellant seem admit power congress appropriate money direct purposes named brief say exemption real issue sought settled deciding institutions created congress within exercise legitimate authority think power make securities involved tax exempt necessarily follows principle settled mcculloch maryland osborn bank supra federal government sees fit exempt securities taxation seems obvious upon clearest principles said invasion state authority extend tax exemption restrain power state similar contention made mcculloch maryland chief justice marshall uttered often quoted statement power tax involves power destroy power destroy may defeat render useless power create plain repugnance conferring one government power control constitutional measures another respect measures declared exerts control propositions denied wheat principle recognized national bank cases declaring power tax property franchises national banks extent authorized laws congress owensboro nat bank owensboro sup involved validity franchise tax kentucky national banks case declared sup ed wholly without power levy tax directly indirectly upon national banks property assets franchises except far permissive legislation congress allowed taxation declared right granted tax real estate banks shares names shareholders constituted extent permission given congress tax beyond declared void farmers bank minnesota sup held state may tax bonds issued municipality territory tax bonds property hands holder last analysis imposition upon right municipality issue exercise taxing power might used hamper destroy exercise authority conferred congress justifies exemption tax bonds may destroy means provided obtaining necessary funds future operation banks wisdom policy legislation nothing function ascertaining whether congress creation banks exempting securities taxation federal state acted within limits constitutional authority reasons stated think contention government appellees banks constitutionally organized securities involved legally exempted taxation must sustained follows decree district affirmed justice brandeis took part consideration decision case justice holmes dissenting doubt desirable question raised case set rest done courts within limits jurisdiction conferred upon constitution laws suit brought citizen missouri missouri corporation single ground upon jurisdiction district maintained suit constitution laws within meaning section judicial code opinion case arise way therefore bill dismissed evident cause action arises law wholly missouri law defendant missouri corporation right claimed stockholder prevent directors act making investment alleged contrary duty scope duty depends upon charter corporation laws missouri laws authorized investment terms plaintiff case seems make manifest unable deem even debatable said cause action arises wholly missouri law missouri law authorizes forbids investment according determination upon point constitution acts congress still point material missouri law saw fit make whole foundation duty missouri law sole incorporated law might incorporate document law document depends relevance effect force upon law took repeat cause action arises wholly law state seems suit said arise law creates cause action may enough law relied upon creates part cause action although whole held osborn bank wheat perhaps meant less guarded expressions cohens virginia wheat content assume although osborn case criticized regretted law must create least part cause action force suit question suit must arise law mere adoption state law law criterion test law force proprio vigore cause case state law also case law decided miller swann sup louisville nashville western union telegraph sup see also shoshone mining rutter sup find nothing contrary views brushaber union pacific sup ann cas seems plain objection considering mind subject observations open confirmed view case fact next volume reports decision reached without discussion single dissent suit arises law creates cause action ratio decidendi american wells works layne bowler sup know decisions contrary see reason overruling justice mcreynolds concurs dissent view opinion jurisdiction express judgment merits