Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-01-25
ANTfDYNAMITE.
Reception of the News Of the Lon.
don Outrage
In The Senate Of the United
States.
Senator EdmHads Immediately Pre-
sents a Bill
To Regulate ths Manufacture and
Use of Explosives
For Other Than Peaceful o.
jects.

"AShlAbIOAi VduudIl St.-naf. islhubuo
(cslling Mr.. Garland to the chair) offered q
bill to prevent snd punish crimes commit
ted by means Of explosive compounds. he
stated that some time since his attention
was drawn to what seemed to be the duty
ofthe United States with regard to such
matters, and having no time at his dis.
posal he had requested friend to
draft a bill for this purpose which
was the bill he now submitted. From the
casual examination be had given the mat
ter, he was Of the opinion that IL was by
no means perfect and would raise questions
as TO the rights of the United States over
such crimes, and the rights o. the States,
but he introduced The hill this morning in
the hope that the Judiciary Committee
might be able to perfect measure which
would meet the ends proposed. The bill
was read twice and referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
The dispatches containing the news Of
the explosion in the houses Of Parliament
we're handed to Senator Edmunds and he
stated that il was this news which in
duced him to offer his bill on the sub
iect Of dynamite explosions in its pres
ent imperfect form. The bill which
Mr.. Edmunds introduced in the Sen
ate to-day on the subject of dynamite ex-
plcsions provides that any person who with
in the t. nited States shall make, buy, sell or
manufacture any dynamite explosive
(specifying all the different scientific
nsmes) with intent that such explosives
shall be used in the United States, or any
foreign country, for the injury and
destruction OF any public or pri-
vate property, or the iniury Of any
person or persons, or the knowledge
that such explosives are to be used BY any
other person fot any such purpose, shall be
deemed guilty offelony, and upon conviction
in any court Of the United States shall be
punished by imprisonment in the peiIiten-
tiary for termiof lblank) years, and & fine
of (blank) dollars, and any person aiding or
abetting by skilled labor in the manu-.
facture of such compounds, knowing the
uses to which they were to be applied, or
acting as agents for the principals in such
transactins shonld be deemed principals,
tried and punished in like manner.
Section prasides that any person trans
porting or delivering such explosives on
board any vessel, railroad car, or vehicle
employed in casryiDg passengers BY lspdsar
water, between any place in the unis I
STATES and q tcfeign. country, or betEeen
place in one State or Territory OF the United
States and another, or at any depot, wharf
or warehouse within the United States,
knowing that the same was intended to be
used for any such felonious purpose as above
indicated, should in like manner be guilty
OF a misdemeanor and subject to Ike pun.
ishment, and every master Of ves-
sell freight superintendent or other
officer of a railroad authorized to re-
ceiye freight and every owner OF every
vehicle mentioned in the act, and every per
son having direct charge Of depot wharf
or warehouse, who receives any such eXplo-
sye compound for transmission or delivery,
knowing that they are TO be used for the pur.
poses prohibited by this act, shall be pun.
ished in like manner as provided by the fol-
lowing section:
Section 3 provides that all prosecutions
shall be by Indictment and that it shall be
the duty Of the Circuit and District Judges
of the United States to bring its provisions
to the special notice Of grand jurics and to
enioin upon them the Importance Of max
ing full and careful inquiry into any viO-
laiion OF its provisions.
Section (. Prosecutions TO be conducted
United States District attorneys, but the
Attorney General to have power to employ
special counsel in prosecutions under the
frsi section deemed OF sufficient import
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