The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-03-31
CUsTOMHOUsE NOTES.
Judrc woods Gives n Decision FavOrab BILE
to the City In the Morris Ranger
Case-Thc Premium Bond plan
WINS n victory.

Case-Thc Premium Bond Plan
was victory.
Judge Woods yesterday, in the Morris
Ranger case VS.. The City, on an applica-
ton for preliminary injunction. rem
dered an opinion favorable to the city,
which will be found elsewhere IN
ertensO.
In the case Of Thomas Pickles vs. The
City, Judge Woods refused the injunc-
ton prayed for. Compliments bill
alleges that the city owes him $4,000 on
a contract for lighting certain portions
Of the city with coal oil, and prays that
the city be restrained from taking
Metropolitan police warrants for taxes.
Judge Woods took the ground that
plaintiff was merely an ordinary cred
itor, and that recovery by action at law
Is condition precedent to the issue OF
the injunction.
In whisky matters before the
Circuit Court pleas OF not guilty
were filed by w. r. Whitaker, Esq, OF
counsel for w. p. Todd, j. p. James and
L. w. Eaton. District Attorney Beck
with filed general demurrer to the
special plea against the indictments in
the Hammond case. The matter was
set down for hearing on Saturd ay next
A batch OF cases OF retail liquor dealers
was disposed OF to-day.
It is asserted in well informed circles
that Assistant Attorney General Blair
is here to assist the local officials in
unearthing the cotton frauds. The
Grand Jury not being In session, there
were no new indictments to-day.
THE DEMURRER IN THE HAMMOND CASE.
In Yesterdays edition the DEMOCRAT
stated that in the case Of the United
States vs.. Samuel W. Hammond, in
dicted for defrauding the revenue
laws "a whisky case) the counsel OF
defendant, Messrs. J. d. Rouse and
Hornor, Benedict had filed de-
murrer to the indictment, on the ground
that two Of the grand jurors who found
true bill in this case CA. W. Round.
tree and H. d. Stevens) were disqualified
| from serving as such grand jurors be-
cause they had voluntarily served in
the Confederate army.
AS this move was quite surprise In
whisky circles and has elected good
deal OF inquiry and interest, we give be-
low the statute alleged to disqualify
these gentlemen as jurors. It reads as
follows:
Section 800, Revised Statutes United
States, page 1872: "The following shall
be causes Of disqualification and chal-
lenge of grand and petit jurors in the
courts of the United States, in addition
to the causes existing by virtue OF sec
ton 812, viz:
without duress and coercion to have
taken up arms or to have joined any
instruction or rebellion against the
United States; to have adhered to any
instruction or rebellion, giving 1t aid
and comfort; to have given directly or
indirectly any assistance, in money,
arms, horses, clothes, or anything
whatever, to or for the use or benefit
OF any person whom the giver OF such
assistance knew to have joined, or to be
about to join, any insurrection or rebel
lion, or to have resisted, or to be about
to resist, with force of arms, the exc
cution OF the laws OF the United States,
or whom he had good ground to believe
to have joined, or to be about to join,
any instruction or rebellion, or to have
resisted, or to be about to resist, with
force OF arms, the execution of the laws
OF the United States; or to have coun-
seled or advised any person to join any
instruction or rebellion, or to resist
with force OF arms the laws OF the
United States"