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JUDGE BOND CALLS A HALT.


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JUDGE BOND CALLS A HALT.
In tho United States Circuit Court
last Thursday, after representation by
the counsel for tho defendants in tho
election cases, Of tho frivolous and un-
warrantablc character of many of tho
recent political arrests, Judge Bond
addressed an official letter to the clerk
of the court in which he says:
1t has been brought to the attention of
tho court that IN several instances in cases
for misdemeanor, the United States COM
missloners have issued warrants of arrest
upon aflldavits made upon information and
belief merely, without any inquiry as to
the source Of the atlantis information or
grounds of his belief, under the impression
that the commissioner had no right to
make such inquiry. No warrant of arrest
or seizure for any offcnsc against tho laws
of the United States upon nero belief or
suspicion of any person Should be issued.
The court desires that you inform the COM
tive but duty toexamine intothc source
of the atlantis information and the grounds
of his belief. If other proof is at hand or
accessible it should be had and examined
The issuing Of warrants Of arrest and
seizure is not nero ministerial act, but n
judicial function, and should not be done
until the commissioners judgment is sat
isfed, and tho court desires tho commits
sioners also to know that for the safety
and protection of the community and the
orderly conduct of the judicial proceedings,
al processes issued by them, except under
extraordinary circumstances, ought to bc
served by q Marshal Of tho United States
or his deputies.
The effect Of Judge Bonds instruc.
tions will be to put q check upon or.
bitrary arrests, and to save innocont
men from much trouble. 1t is only
regretted that tho order did not como
in time to stop Melton, Willard and
Snyder in tho infamous proceeding
they have already s2u 922Eyie%dy ie%dy99lnSt;izun1. y9nSt;i
a Statement from tho Chairman ,f t1,,
Board Of School Trustcos, Explaining
Their Action In tho Premises.
MessrS. Editors: My attention has
just been directed to an article in your
last issue, requesting the Board of
School Trustees of Township No. l to
cite its authority for making an appro-
priation last year for furniture for the
Crosby Institute. AS chairman, I re-
spcctfuliy submit the reply of tho
Board.
Cur official acts are not only ALWAYS
open to investigation, both public and
private at the chairman's office, whore
all the records can ut any time be seen,
Dut they challenge and even conrl tire
closest scrutiny. We have in all cases
strlven to discharge our official duty
strictly in accordance with the provi-
sions OF the School Law, recognizing
III the discharge of those duties neither
race nor party affiliations. If we have
III any respect committed errors, thcv
nave been entirely tho results of ieno-
rance; bnt as ignorance excuses no ono
: III the estimation of the law, wc orc
now prepared, and shall SO continue
10 DC at any time, to submit our official
acts before the proper tribunal, and
stand qualified or condemned by its
decision.
The. School Eaw recognizes no dis
hnctlons rs to raco or party; and we
cannot, therefore, in our official capac.
'ty' submit o statemcnt simply to be
used for campaign purposes by either
party. Nor should it bc expected that
we can SO far forget the dignity and
courtesy Of official life as to indulge in
PERSONAL diatribcs and tho rcfutation
OF ISLANDERS, however malieibus IN de-
slsh and unwarrantcd by tho facts.
we address ourselves, then, in the dis
passionate language of. our official
position, to those honestly ignorant
shd inquisitive, not only as to. the
o"fho'tty but tho boundcn duty Of the
Board, with,regard to the furniture in
question.
Two years:~ago the people in tic
vicinity of ID. p. Crosby's determined
10 make an active effort to establish IN
mat neiglhorhood permanent school
OF great efficiency for the benefit of lhr
Whole Conner. and adjacent country,
IN connection with this school, il was
desired that tho one ut Cool Branch
should DO opened and both run pernn.
nently ten months or two hundred.
days throughout tho year. By this.
union, which would have guaranteed
Inc ~ pest methods, classification, discin-
aane, 3ooks, apparatus and school sur
!. It was thought practicable
20 70 extend the benefcent influence OIL
th,s !. school, used as o base Of onero.
ions, as It were, throughout a good |
portion OF the township without onv
material difference OF expense. Il Ind
iong been seon with no little a,,xie,v
mere, as well as elsewhere. that liz III
Ilsual public free school efforts ffa;ind
., eeclue. anything like satisfactory