Commonwealth Ex Rel. Attorney General v. Beamish

Supplemental to what was said in our Per Curiam opinion filed September 26, 1932, we deem it advisable that further reference should be made to the question involved in this appeal than was given in that opinion, which was filed the day of the argument to enable the secretary of the Commonwealth to comply with the law.

The purpose of this proceeding was to obtain an interpretation of section 1, article XVIII, of the Constitution of the Commonwealth. From the agreed statement of facts it appears that William N. Hardy, on behalf of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association, filed with…