Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-04
GENERAL NEWS.
The Star Route Trinlo.

Washington. October 4-Owing to n
rumor that counsel for the defendants. in
the. star r,uts cases would this morning
make a motion TO qnnsh the information
filed against Gen; Brady and others there
was a large number Of lawyers and otL-
ers present in tho criminal court room.
Court having besn called to order, Bia,
dy, Frtnoh, TafneEahd Brown entered
accompanied BY tleif COUNSEL Robert
g. lngersoli; Jeremiah Wilson md
Enoeh Tatten, the. government being
represented by. OorkhiA mud Wn. Cook,
special ussistant. The proceedings. were
opened by Tottenr who aeid he had fonnd
that o paper, called an ihformstion, Ind
been recently filed against Brady and
others. and wished, to enter motion TO
quash that paper. Heaskcd leave Of the
court to file that motion, and desired
that day should be fixed for its argu-
ment. Cook objected to filing the mo-
tion at present. for when the Information
had been, fled twas accompanied. with
an order Of the court for the appearance
OF the parties. Until they did appear
and give security to answer they had no
legal standing. Tottcn replied that the
parties We're all present in court aud
ready to ask that their bonds should be
arranged. JudgeCox inquired whether
the counsel had any suggestion to offer
as to the amount'of bhil. Cook said nc.
cording to the informatiomtte amount
of which it was assured the government
had been defrauded was S5500Oe Ac.
cording to act of congress bailii,f cases
Of conspiracy to dcfraud the govern
ment was fixed at 100000. He wonld
suggest, however, that in order to cover
possible costs. bail should net. be less
than $1,000. Wilson suggested that in
liking the amount of bailthe court ought
to examine the pretended Information in
order TO learn the'cfmracter of the aiie-
cation against the defendants The
avcrmcnts against Tuner and French
which consisted simply of d charge Of
conspiracy and making some calcu!a-
lious, ana said upon such averments bail
OF $1,000 or slO,99O,. or, $1,000, sas-.
little more than the court ought tc grant.
What applied TO those two. gentlemen
applied to all the defendants. The Who'll.
Graraa,ea of the case against Brady was
that he did not exercise sound and judi
cial discretion in the dischargeSfhis du
tiss as second assistant postmaster gen
eral. There was nothing in the intorma
tion that he could, see that would war
rant the court in fixing high amount
of bail. Ingersoll, who appears fol
Brown, contended that the court should
only fix bail at high enough amount tc
secure the attendance Of defendants
Cook sad the question Of the character
OF the information was not now, before
the court, but when it'cane to the ques
tion Of evidence the government expect
ed TO produce adequate proof to sus
tain the information.. Judge Coz
did not think that it was a case that
would require any large bail
He would examine :Le, ;. intpr
nation tonight and fix bail to- morrow
When he bail was fixed he would deter
mine upon n day. to- hear argu
ment on the motion to quash til,
information. 1t would probably b,
some time next week. Totteh's motto,
was then filed and the defendants dis
charged on their personal recog>iizance