The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-11-07

that defense held that an executive officer could
not be subjected to the jurisdiction OF sne
court for an abuse of q discretion given him by
Congress, and IN this proposition they were
sustained by Wharton and Bishop, from which
authorities he quoted at length. Not single
authority. he asserted had been offered by the
other side that said that it could be done.
This was not new case sprung upon the court
1t had been hawked for months through tne
newspapers. Men, in order to justify an am
bition, had made themselves immortal by dis
covering this alleged fraud three years ago
The case came here smelling with decay, solled
with handling and offensive in every respect.
A little while ago it had been asserted that the
case had been presented to President Hays, but
that he had not found anything IN 1t to STIR up
his indipnatiou and it was in the history OF the
court that Congress has already investigated
this very matter in 1879. He denounced IN
strong terms the attempts which had been
made nv the government to blast the reputa-
ton of the accused before giving them
hearing. Before the case had crossed the
threshold of the court, before the lnforma-
ton had been placed upon the Mes, an impress
sion and belief in the infamy of the defend
ants had been spread throughout the land
WAS THAT A FAIR PROSECUTION?
Was it not an act of gravity which outstripped
the gravity of the acts with which the defend
ants were charged, that the government should
poison the minds of the people who were to try
them, if they ever we're tried? He alleged, IN
the course OF MS 1uIuro F6itdrhS, tiide VIZ -
formation had been given to the Associateu
Press before it had been filed in the court
Mr. Cook interrupted with denial EoI Whas
he characterized as ''palpable and unfound-
ed mis-statement of fact" 1t was NOT tiuo
that the information had been given TO any one
or had been published IN itne papers, un0i' ~
had been fled. .,t-
stance of that information was not telegraphed
to New York the night before IL was nieu!
r fod mr. n known
to any member of the press that it was to be
Mr., Chandler-A very reputable gentleman
told me that he read it in New York paper
on the morning it WAS filed here.
Mr.. Cook--The gentleman must have got ms
information from the father of lies. Laugh
Mr.. Chamberlain he may be of close kim
dred to the prosecution for all know. Laugh
teri will not undertake to search OUT ms
parentags, sh att II wdhGf lGXafp2 You'd R 60
Mr.. Cook-That would only sbe the gentle
mans second error and second misstatement
of fact.
Mr. Chandler-If the gentleman denies that
it was so, will accept the denial, and say
was mistaken, but, whether that be the fact or
not, there is not an intelligent man under the
American flag who does not know that he read
in substance every charge in that information
months before it found its way into court. 1t
may not have been the same in its arrange
ment, but 1t went out months ago Win inc
brutal adjectives that characterize it now. 1t
has infected every corner of the United States,
and the gentleman (dr. Bliss) said yesterday
that its effect was to render these men infa-
NOUS in every district of the United States.
Not one opportunity have they had to speak in
their behalf, not single syllable of testimony
has dropped from any living witness against
them. but SO has the government of the Uni
ted States manipulated these facts to their dis
advantage that the cloud of infamy rests upon
their names 1t bears no semblance of justice,
it is incarnate iniquity in every expression, and
a government which has no more appreciation
of citizens rights than to use its annihilating
authority to destroy reputationSibefore a charge
is ma de ought to be held to come into court in
the sual way. Mr.. Chandler spoke for an
hour and three quarters, and at the conclusion
until Monday, whe Mr.. Cook will argue in op-
positi on to the motion to set aside the informal
ton