The New York herald., 1875-11-30
THE BROOKLYN RING SUITS.
PROCEEDINGS TO BE TAKEN THIS WEEK.

PROCEEDINGS TO BE TAKEN THIS WEEK.
The determination to prosecute the members OF the
Brooklyn Ring having been settled the next steps
which, in the judgment of Mr. John 4. Parsons, 1t
may be proper to take anxiously awaited by the
parties interested defendants. Mr. Parsons has de-
cided undertake the task Of conducting the for
the people, but he has not yet named the lawyers whom
he intends TO associate with him. He may select any
one OF three courses in insttuting proceedings
by summons, by arrest by attachment
OF property. plaintiff has the right in civil
suit to select where the issue shall be tried but not
outside OF the county where he the de-
fendant resides In the present instance, as
the people are the plaintiffs and the State
prosecutes, the be laid in any county within
the State 1t is understood from MI Parsons that he
intends TO select New York county and proceed in the
first by attachment In the Interpretation OF
the Civil Remedies bill question is involved whether
the State institute a criminal suit. Prominent
lawyers hold that 1t cannot, and that the duty rests
with the District Attorney OF the county Mr Parsons
considers he has material at hand 10 begin operations
and that it is OF sufficiently weighty character TO
rHI DEFENDANTS uScoScERsED
The parties who arc TO be implicated exhibit no
visible anxiety about the result. Mr.. Kingsley, who
undertakings in ono direction or another told HERALD
reporter Yesterday that he desires TO ntcrpose no bar
whatever in the way OF the proceedings He Is ready
TO le his in iorty-eght hours after the com
plant is furnished him He disclams any thought of
privilege to use, OF questioning the eonstitutionay OF
the Civil Remedies bill He considers II abnormal
legislation and analogous in principle 20 that which
provoked Magma Charta and drove the colonies into re-
bellion. These laws leave IL optional with the prose-
cutting officer TO try the case IN hand in any one OF the
several counties OF the State The people of Kings
county supposed to DO the prosecutors for they
are the who must have suffered by the
alleged frauds and yet is allowed that they shall not
sit in judgment the parties who accused OF hav
ing stolen their money In the prior TO the Reyo
luton men taken from this country TO England to
be tried for offences committed in America and Mr.
Kingsley holds the principle Is the same in both
However he says, with air OF absolute resignation
ITO II Is matter of indifference where the case Is
tried. Ny will be the same under any crcum-
All desire is q suspension of public Judg
until the legal tribunals afford chance to be
heard
Commissioner Fowler said unless these suits, about
which much has been said, are instituted without
delay he shall take measures to stimulate their ncep
ton. He wants the thing brought to an immediate
head and. d.lnshed way or the other. The general
feeling among the persons implicated is TO have the
proceedings FASTENED Mr. Parsons says that large
bodies slowly with the case he has charge Of
1t involves great deal OF money and the complications
in the matter are unusually numerous.
COMMITTEES
Of the Taxpayers Association up to their eyes In
business. They have good deal Of material hand,
the task OF separating the wheat from the chan and
selecting just such will stand the crucibe OF
legal inquiry, Is neither light nor easy.
hr. Parsons, however will proceed with what he
has already and by the end Of this week the machinery
of he lazy vii he In