coyle smith argued decided may frank dale horner john burford bierer frank burford benjamin hegler plaintiff error charles west burwell joseph bailey ledbetter stuart defendants error justice lurton delivered opinion writ error oklahoma review judgment upholding legislative act state providing removal capital guthrie oklahoma city making appropriation funds state purpose carrying act erection necessary state buildings acts oklahoma december opinion oklahoma may found pac act passed december state gave jurisdiction entertain proceeding brought resident taxpayers state determined legality removal location attempt remove locate state capital certain state institutions act passed advance removal act involved express purpose providing speedy method determination constitutional objections might urged proposed relocation seat state government removal act followed proceeding started state plaintiff error claimed citizen state also owner large property interests guthrie adversely affected removal seat government proposed act question validity law locating capital oklahoma city attacked many reasons involved interpretation application constitution state decided adversely petitioner shall pass matters state law subject reviewing power writ error state question reviewable writ error arises claim set petitioner decided oklahoma act december providing immediate location capital state oklahoma city void repugnant enabling act congress june state admitted union stat chap act referred entitled act enable people oklahoma indian territory form constitution state government admitted union equal footing original etc act provides admission arizona new mexico first sections relate oklahoma section lengthy deals organization constitutional convention concludes words capital said state shall temporarily city guthrie shall changed therefrom previous anno domini nineteen hundred thirteen said capital shall said year located electors said state election provided legislature provided however legislature said state except shall necessary convenient transaction public business said state said capital shall appropriate public moneys state erection buildings capital purposes said period sections act require constitution proposed new state shall include many specific provisions concerning framework government impose limitations upon state regards indians therein reservations respect traffic liquor among indians upon reservations last section applicable oklahoma reads thus constitutional convention provided herein shall ordinance irrevocably accept terms conditions act constitution framed contains nothing location state capital convention framed adopted separate ordinance words enabling act accepted ordinance irrevocable ordained constitutional convention proposed state oklahoma said constitutional convention ordinance irrevocable accept terms conditions act congress entitled act enable people oklahoma indian territory form constitution state government admitted union equal footing original enable people new mexico arizona form constitutional state government admitted union equal footing original approved june sixteenth anno domini nineteen hundred six submitted along constitution separate matter ratified constitution proper efficacy ordinance law state conflicting removal act course state question question review us whether provision enabling act valid limitation upon power state admission overrides subsequent state legislation repugnant thereto power locate seat government determine shall changed one place another appropriate public funds purpose essentially peculiarly state powers one original thirteen shorn powers act congress moment entertained question comes state placed upon plane inequality sister union congress chooses impose conditions operate time admission argument congress may deprive state power possesses may condition admission new state constitutionally restrict authority extent least suspending powers definite time respect location seat government contention predicated upon constitutional power admitting new union tional duty guaranteeing state union republican form government position counsel plaintiff error substantially power congress admit new determine whether fundamental law republican form political powers uncontrollable courts congress may exercise power impose terms conditions upon admission proposed new state accepted obligatory although operate deprive state powers otherwise possess therefore admitted upon equal footing original power congress respect admission new found section article constitution provision may admitted congress union expressed restriction upon power new state shall formed within jurisdiction state junction two parts without consent well congress power admit political organizations less greater different dignity power political entities constitute union strongly put counsel admit definition state found powers possessed original adopted constitution definition emphasized terms employed subsequent acts congress admitting new union first two admitted union vermont kentucky one march june terms conditions exacted either act declares state admitted new entire member america stat chaps emphatic significant phrase admitted entire member even stronger declaration upon admission tennessee stat chap third new state declared america equal footing original respects whatsoever phraseology ever since substantially followed admission acts concluding oklahoma act declares oklahoma shall admitted equal footing original power admit union union union equal power dignity authority competent exert residuum sovereignty delegated constitution maintain otherwise say union power congress admit new might come union unequal power including whose powers restricted constitution others whose powers restricted act congress accepted condition admission thus result first powers congress defined constitution alone respect new enlarged restricted conditions imposed upon new legislation admitting union second new might exercise powers delegated constitution bargained away conditions admission argument congress derives duty state union republican form government power impose restrictions upon new state deprive equality members union merit may imply duty new state provide state government impose upon congress duty seeing form changed one happersett wall ed obviously confer power admit new state shall less state compose union come question whether anything decisions sanctions claim congress may imposition conditions enabling act deprive new state attributes essential equality dignity power considering decisions bearing upon question must distinguish first provisions fulfilled admission state second compacts affirmative legislation intended operate futuro within scope conceded powers congress subject third compacts affirmative legislation operates restrict powers new state respect matters otherwise exclusively within sphere state power requirements enabling acts relate contents constitution proposed new state little need said constitutional provision concerning admission new mandate power exercised discretion alone follow congress may require penalty denying admission organic law new state time admission shall meet approval constitution thus supervised congress constitution state subject alteration amendment state admission force state constitution act congress case permoli new orleans ed point act february stat chap people territory orleans empowered form constitution state government section act prescribed among things fundamental principles civil religious liberty act admitting state provided conditions terms contained section shall considered deemed taken fundamental conditions terms upon said state incorporated union stat chap claimed certain municipal ordinance violation religious liberty therefore void repugnant act state admitted union dealing terms enabling admitting acts respect contents constitution adopted people territory seeking admission state speaking justice catron said congress intended declare advance people territory fundamental principles constitution contain every way proper circumstances instrument duly formed presented national legislature judge whether contained proper principles accept reject accepted constitution admitted state equal footing original respects whatever express terms act congress concluded assuming instructions contained act complied fundamental principles added way amendment making part state constitution congress make part might form amendment make entire conditions terms referred act relate stipulations contained second proviso act involving rights property navigation opinion otherwise intended reference justice catron terms conditions act provision act stat chap quite common enabling acts new state disclaimed title public lands stipulated lands remain subject sole disposition exemption taxation navigable waters forever remain open free etc stipulations shall see within sphere congressional power derive force consent state like stipulations well others respect control large indian reservations indian population new state found oklahoma enabling acts whatever force provisions admission state may attributed power congress subjects derived provisions constitution rather consent compact state far found occasion advert effect enabling acts affirmative legislation affecting power new admission found sanction contention state may deprived power constitutionally possessed reason terms acts admitting union framed case pollard hagan ed instructing controlling case involved title submerged lands shores navigable waters within state alabama plaintiff claimed patent defendant grant state plaintiff relied upon two propositions relevant question one act alabama admitted union stat chap stipulation people alabama forever disclaimed right title waste unappropriated lands lying within state remain sole disposal second navigable waters within state forever remain public highways free citizens state without tax duty impost imposed state provisions relied upon became possessed submerged lands shores navigable rivers within state points decided first following martin waddell pet ed prior adoption constitution people original absolute right navigable waters soil common use subject rights since surrendered constitution second alabama succeeded sovereignty jurisdiction territory within limits extent georgia possessed ceded territory third alabama belong navigable waters soils held stipulation act alabama admitted union people proposed disclaim rights title waste unappropriated lands lying within said territory shall remain sole entire disposition operate contract parties binding law said power given congress make needful rules regulations respecting territory property authorized passage laws necessary secure rights public lands provide sale protect taxation constitutional laws binding people new old ones whether consent bound every constitutional act congress passed people expressed representatives enactment passed becomes law land operates force whatever state territory may happen proposition therefore law operate upon enactment without express consent people new state may happen contains refutation requires farther examination propositions submitted people alabama territory acceptance rejection act congress authorizing form constitution state government far related public lands within territory amounted nothing less rules regulations respecting sales disposition public lands supposed compact relied counsel plaintiffs conferred authority therefore congress pass act granting plaintiffs land controversy fourth stipulation admission act navigable waters within state forever remain open free deciding original belonged absolute right navigable waters within soil public use rights since surrendered constitution said therefore entitled sovereignty jurisdiction territory within limits subject common law extent georgia possessed ceded maintain doctrine deny alabama admitted union equal footing original constitution laws compact contrary notwithstanding plain deduction case new state admitted union admitted powers sovereignty jurisdiction pertain original powers may constitutionally diminished impaired shorn away conditions compacts stipulations embraced act new state came union valid effectual subject congressional legislation admission deduction finds support permoli new orleans ed heretofore used excerpt strader graham ed withers buckley ed escanaba transp chicago ed sup van brocklin tennessee van brocklin anderson ed sup huse glover ed sup sands manistee river improv ed sup ward race horse ed sup bolin nebraska ed sup power congress regulate commerce among involves control navigable waters commerce conducted undeniable equally well settled control state internal commerce involves right control regulate navigable streams within state congress acts subject uniform holding since wilson black bird creek marsh pet ed gilman philadelphia wall ed escanaba transp chicago ed sup many cases cited presented question whether state regulation navigable waters valid exercise power state congress regulate subject invalid power cut regulation general subject congress result supposed compact condition restriction accepted state condition upon admitted union may well happen congress embrace enactment introducing new state union legislation intended regulation commerce among indian tribes situated within limits new state regulations touching sole care disposition public lands reservations therein might upheld legislation within sphere plain power congress every case legislation derive force agreement compact proposed new state reason acceptance enactment term admission solely power congress extended subject therefore operate restrict state legislative power respect matter plainly within regulating power congress willamette iron bridge hatch ed sup pollard hagan supra question presented legislation oklahoma enabling act relating location capital state construed forbidding removal state admission state referable power granted congress subject upheld must implied power admit new power impose restriction upon general undelegated power state conceded implied power admit new state line drawn restrictions imposed upon new insistence finds support decisions withers buckley ed contended certain legislation state mississippi interfering free navigation one navigable streams state flicted one stipulations act state admitted union congress otherwise legislated upon subject said considering act congress march stat chap unnecessary institute examination criticism legitimate meaning operation binding authority farther affirm effect restrict new state necessary attributes independent sovereign government inhibit diminish perfect equality members confederacy associated conclusions follow nature objects confederacy language constitution adopted rule interpretation pronounced case pollard hagan ed escanaba transp chicago cited contended control state illinois internal waters restricted ordinance reference ordinance act congress admitting state stat chap concerning insistence speaking justice field said limitation upon powers government whilst territorial condition whether ordinance legislation congress ceased operative force except voluntarily adopted became state union admission became entitled possessed rights dominion sovereignty belonged original admitted admitted footing language resolution admitting equal footing original respects whatever stat equality constitutional right power condition union old new illinois therefore well observed counsel afterwards exercise power rivers within limits delaware exercised black bird creek pennsylvania schuylkill river pollard hagan ed permoli new orleans ed strader graham ed ward race horse ed sup necessary equality new state original asserted maintained claim police power state wyoming wild game restricted indian treaty made prior admission state wyoming bolln nebraska ed sup appeared act nebraska admitted stat chap among things required convention organized form constitution proposed state adopt people state constitution done claimed result power state authorize prosecution felony information restricted one amendments constitution prosecute indictment respect claim said conceding claimed connection state nebraska enter union condition enabling act adopted constitution fundamental law meant words state acknowledged every state done supremacy federal constitution section act admitting state union declared hereby admitted union upon equal footing original respects whatsoever impossible suppose indefinite language used enabling act congress intended differentiate nebraska sister even power attempt impose onerous conditions upon upon cases arising nebraska different construction given constitution given constitutions held many cases whatever limitations upon power territorial government cease operative force except voluntarily adopted territory become state union upon admission state becomes entitled possesses rights dominion sovereignty belonged original language act admitting state nebraska stands equal footing original respects whatsoever unable find decisions cited counsel plaintiff error anything contravenes view expressed green biddle wheat ed involved question whether compact two assented congress private land titles kentucky derived virginia separation kentucky virginia remain valid secure laws proposed state kentucky determined laws existing virginia state subsequent legislation state kentucky titles adversely affected held legislation impaired obligation valid contract within clause constitution forbidding impairment neither virginia west virginia wall ed bearing question one compact two assented congress concerning boundary cases last referred concerned compacts authorized constitution assented congress therefore compacts agreements sanctioned constitution one sought enforced one sanction instrument beecher wetherby ed involved validity grant every sixteenth section township school purposes grant made act providing organization state government territory wisconsin purported upon condition proposed state never interfere primary disposal public lands subject taxation grant held operate grant taking effect soon necessary surveys made conditions assented state obviously obtained force assent state since might exacted exertion proper power congress make rules regulations disposition public lands minnesota batchelder wall ed another case involved nothing exertion congress power regulate disposition public lands case kansas indians blue jacket johnson county wall ed involved power state kansas tax lands held individual indians state patents act providing admission kansas union provided nothing contained constitution state construed rights person property pertaining indians said territory long rights shall remain unextinguished treaty indians stat chap held long tribal organization indians recognized still existing lands subject taxation state result might well upheld either exertion power congress indian tribes treaty relations contract state agreed forego taxation indian lands contract quite within power state make whether made benefit indian wards private corporation supposed advantages resulting certainly case bearing upon compact general legislative power state impaired reference matter pertaining purely internal policy state see stearns minnesota ed sup good result consideration cases cited plaintiff error none bear closely upon question involved referred anything needed complete argument assertion oklahoma admitted union upon equality power dignity sovereignty massachusetts virginia afforded express provision act admission declared people proposed new state complied terms act shall duty president issue proclamation proposed state oklahoma shall deemed admitted congress union virtue act equal footing original proclamation issued senators representatives state admitted seats congress oklahoma admitted upon equal footing original virtue jurisdictional sovereignty state may determine people proper location local seat government equal power texas white wall ed chief justice chase said strong memorable language constitution provisions looks indestructible union composed indestructible lane county oregon wall ed said people constitute one nation one government government within scope powers invested hand people state compose state government endowed functions essential separate independent existence disunited might continue exist without union political body may add constitutional equality essential harmonious operation scheme upon republic organized equality disappears may remain free people union union constitution judgment affirmed justice mckenna justice holmes dissent