The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-07-05
The II. S. COmmissiOner'sC Court
at lake Charles.

In addition to the Q . d. troops here,
and the arrival every few days of addi-
tional deputy ;marshals and log keepers,
our town is being further enlivened by
the daily sessions of United States
Commissioners Court. at the Court
= house. This Court is held here, by Or
der Of the II. S. Circuit Court, for the
sole purpose Of enabling the numerous
intervenors in the case, pending in the
q. s, Circuit Court at New Orleans, of
U. S. We. Joseph Hampton ct ais, A.
j. Perkins ct ais, intervenors, to re-
lease on bond, the pine logs claimed in
their respective petitions of interview
ton. A summary report of the pro-
ceedings of the Commissioner Conrt,
up TO this date, appears elsewhere in
our columns. Hon T. G. Chamber
lain, the "a Commissioner, presiding,
has challenged the respect of the gov
eminent representative on the one
hand, and of the intervenors on the
other, and the esteem and confidence of
the public generally, by his absolutely
impartial rulings on the bench, no less
than by his conspicuous ability, and
dignifed demeanor. He is ably second
ed in the discharge of his official duties
by the clerk of his court, H. F. Sewell
ESD, whose readiness and perfect IA
miliarity with his duties as Clerk have
caused general appreciation. So far,
the only occurrence in court tending in
any way to cause unpleasant feeling,
was O return by deputy marshal j J. 4
Gainey, to n writ of subpoena duces
fecam, ordering him to produce in court
certain papers called for by Ryan &
Geary, interyenors. The return was
that he was instructed by his superior
officers to deny the authority of the
court to compel him to produce one of
those papers, and that, as to the other,
Gan inventory he had received no 1egal
inventory of certain logs mentioned in
the motion for the subpoena. The
Commissioners, with severity of re-
buke which was only heightened by the
quiet dignity with which it was admin
istered. informed Mr.. Gainey that the
marshal was merely an executive officer
Of the Court, and that he (Gainey) had
no superior officer superior in author
ity to the Court and that the question
whether any inventory in his, Gainey's,
possession, was legal inventory, was a
question not for Mr.. GaineY, but for
the court, to determine. Therenpon
Mr.. Gainey earnestly disavowed any
Intentional contempt of court in his re-
turn, and the case was proceeded with.
In very few days the Board of .Ap-
praisers will finish their inventories and
appraisements of the logs seized, and
upon snch inventories and ,appraise-
ments the intervenors who have not
yet bonded their logsvwill at once pro-
ceetl to do 40. So far the Board of APP
praisers, dMessrs. Haskell, Sewell and
Couturie, notwithstanding the strenu-
GUS efforts Of deputy MARSHAL Gainey to
obstruct and hinder it in the artlnous
work OF the inventory and appraise-
merit of the logs seized, has made the
only inventories and sppraisements
unfer which the bonds of release have
ssyet been ordered and executed, and
itsis now hard at work completing the
inventory and appraisement of the logs
yet under seizure. Mr.. Gainey went
90 far on one occasion rs to order these
off of lalot Of logs on which
hey had. fertunately, inst completed
N inventory, and read or professed to ID
lead oIthem . telegram. purporting to
,e from the %. s. District Attorney In
New tOrlaane. Informing Mr.. Gainey
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