From trustworthy information that hes been obtained within the last forty-eight hours in regard tu the attitude of the members of the United States Supreme Court, says a Washington dispatch to the "New York Herald," it appears safe to say that the Pepke or "fourteen diamond ring" case, involving the legality of the collection of dues on goods imported from the Philippines into the United States after the ratification of the Paris treaty of I peace and before the passage of the Spooner Act, will be decided by the Supreme Court in favour of the Government, This is the famous case which the Supreme Court failed to decide when it disposed of the other insular cases' last May. The Pepke case differs materially from the De Lima case, which was decided against the Government in the spring.
The most important difference between the Pepke and the De Lima cases is found in the fact, as was pointed out by Justice Brown, who held the balance of power in the Court when the other insular eases were decided, that the United States did not have actual possession of the Philippines, and the Government there was being con: ducted under the war power of the nation, while in the case of Porto Rice the United States was in actual and full possession of he island. that immediately after the ratification of the treaty of peace the Senate adopted a resolution that "it is not intended to incor-rate the inhabitants of the Philippine slands into citizenship of the United States, nor is it intended to permanently annex' them as an integral part of the territory of the United S ates.
From the "Record Herald of October 17th we take the following
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.