, 1881-10-01
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The Governments Lawyers
Open Fire on the
Rascals.
Informations Filed Against
Brady, French, and Three
Confedcrates.
The Proceedings Taken in Common
:. Law, in Order to OiroumVent
Brady.
Brady Had Atready "Fixed" tho
0rand Jury, and Bragged
of 1t. .
Recital Of the Particular Piece OF
Knavery on Which The Action
Is Based.
One. Day More and the Statute of
Limitations Gould Have
Been Pleaded.
Report that Laphatn WIFI BE
Asked to Step Aside for -
Conkl,ng.
Secretary Window Desires to
Reach St. Paul a Private
Citizen Oct. 10.
He win Ask for the Sent In tho
Sonnte Vacated Last
March.
The National-Bank Circulation L. Now
ut 1ts HIGHEST Point,
1857, ,770,490.
Secretary Window Desires tc
Reach St. Paul a Private
Citizen Oct. 10.
He Will Ask for tic Seat In tho
Sonnte Vacntel Last
March.
The National-Bauk Circulation Is Now
ut Its HIGHEST Point,
67,770,490.


Special Dispdteh to The Chtea9o Tribune.
WASHINGTON, D. o.. Sept. :u.-'F],o Goy-
ernmcllt startled tho star-ronte rlnr this
morning by an unexpectedly move. District
Attorney Corkhi!l, Str. William Cook, who
tlns been retained ns n spetlnt nssstnnt Mt
torncy for tho United States In tile st,r.routa
cases, md Messrs. George Bliss Of New
York, and Benjamin II. Brewster, OF Phila-
tlelph1a, assistant COUNSEL, appeared before
Judge Cox, presiding ut the criminal torn Ut
tho Supreme Court of tho District at tic
opening If tile court, a,,l flied M. inforn,n-
tlon against Thomas J. Drasly,, Lutte Second
Assistant I'ostinaster-G General; j. l.. French,
lately Ills ci.Ecf clerk; ". II. Turner, lately
q clerk III tho Post-Onlc Department; t3corge
L. Macl)onougt, ono Of tile ring OF contract-
ors; samue! 4. Brown. who Inns beun an
agent OF tho bribars alul brlt'e-takit1g. s.:
IT Had BEEN surposEl, i,
TINT tic FIRST step III tho proceeding would be
by an appearances before the grand jury,
with View to obtaIntng Indictments. 1t
hns, however, been long suspected that tho
relations 0f soiio Ut the grand. Jury toward
tho star-rollto rtIiE wore altogether too falnil-
tar. The officers Of tho law i,nyc heard
many reports Of Alr. Brady snytng that llo
"had cnrner on tho grand jtry.n
Moreover, tho case which .iyas presented TO-
day would hnye been barred by tie statute
OF limitations tomorrow. Nfr. W. a. Cook.
with great astuteness, lias found u. wny out
Of tsle difficulties presented bY thla stata of
things. atld to HIN Is due tile credit Of tho
discovery that tho Government cnn proceed
without the Intervention of tho grand Jury.
aid
1sf COMMON LAW 1NFOlss[.ATIoN,
Tho Government counsel clafM that the right
to proceed Iii this way ia well settled by de-
cistons of the Federal Courts. Thu stnte Of
tho Inv Oil this point fs given by Judge Dillon
tn the cuse Ut the UMtted States w. Atnx-
well, 3rl Dillon, Circuit Court Reports,
page en-. III follows: land 1t Inns been s,,y-
eral times expressly adjudged thar o!funses
not capital or otherwise infamous may be
presented IN thb Federal Court by iiformn-
tion, and such seems to have beet tho opin-
lou Of Mr. Justice Strong fl tho United
States ys. Buzzey, is Wall, pngo 1a3.' Tile
proceeding by criminal information does not
seem 10 lave beon questioned Ln q! !tler court.
We aro Of tile opinion, therefore, that of
fenses not capital or infamous, may, III the
discretion Of tile court, bo prosecuted by In
| fornatlo,,." r..
THE CHANGES AaA1ssr ntlApY
mako thu history OF, q very intereatlnE and
| characteristic Btnt-r0ute' case. Tho chnrge
| is of conspiracy to defrat,d the Government
compensation fur expedited service on oilo
n.ail route, that from Prescott Fl, Arizona to
Santa Ed The several counts Of the IT..
formation give tue story Of this route, On
tila lst Of November. 1877, this route, ait,ong
many Others, was advertised. Tie adver-
ttscnleI4t wns for proposals to carry the nlnit
from July l. 1878 to ,Iunn 30 1881, The iii nj.