The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-09-18
FROM OVER THE ocean.
The Inquiry Into the Charges
Against Mr.. PANEL.
THE COMMISSION At WORK.
The "white Pasha"-some Light on
the African Mystery-An Explorer
Who Answers the Description.
Other Foreign News Items.

l members oil the House oil Commonl
s opened its first session ut II o'clock thii
j morning in the Probate Court. Owing
q to the limited size Of the court room, i
5 was impossible to admit more than {
select few OF the. public. Represents
tives of the press occupied the bulk o.
: the space, two hundred reporters, rep
: resenting Provincial, London and Amer,
lean newspapers, having obtained tick
cts Of admission. Judges Hannen,
Smith and Day, who compose the COM
mission, entered the court room pre-.
cisely at II o'clock. Sir Charles Rus
sell Herbert Henry Smith s(Iiberal),
member OF Parliament for the East Di.
vision OF Fife, appeared for the Parnell.
ties, and Mr.. Ruegg watched the case
for Mr. O'DonnelI.
Judge Hannen said the circumstances
under which the commission sat were
novel. He stated briefly the scope and
nature of the principles on which the
commission proposed to conduct the in
quiry. The commission, he said, were
directed to inquire into and report upon
charges made against certain members
OF the House OF Commons and other
persons in connection with the 0'Don-
nell Times action. The commission held
that the inquiry should be restricted to
charges that were made the cause OF that
action. Parliament also gave them, in
addition to their special powers, all the
power vested in court OF justice. They
proposed, in the first instance, to make
the inquiry rs though it were an issue
between Mr.. 0'Dnnneii and the Times,
reserviDg themselves the power to call
anybody who might be able TO throw
any light on the issues therein involved.
The inquiry would be carried on in ac-
cordance with the rules OF the ordinary
courts.
Before proceeding, Judge Hanuen
asked Sir Charles Russell for whom he
appeared. Sir Charles replied that he
represented eighty -four Irish members
OF Parliament. Mr.. Graham said he was
retained, with Attorney General Web
ster, for the Times.
Application was made for permission
for the representation OF Scotland Yard
by counsel. Judge Haunen said he
would decide upon the application II
1t were found that inquiry involved the
police.
Sir Charles Russell demanded that
he be allowed TO inspect the letters aud
photographs bearing on the case, and
that the commission issue an order for
the discovery OF the documents upon the
authority OF which some OF the Times
charges were made. He asked that a
commission be appointed to take cvi.
dence in the United States, and that an
order be issued releasing Mr.. Dillon
from jail, SO he may give testimony be-
fore the commission. lie wanted espe-
Cially TO see the Egan. Harris letter,
which he claimed was forgery.
Counsel for tho Times agreed to pro-
duce certain letters, but objected to the
commission issuing an order tor the dis
covery OF the documents.
AG. PARNELL ENTERED
the court room while the discussion con-
corning the production of the letters was
proceeding. Sir Charles Russell said he
did not contine his application to two
letters. He wanted to inspect all the
letters aud documents referred to in the
articles on "Parnellism and Crime"
Judge Hannen stated that he had not
read them, and said that counsel must
inform the court what were necessary so
as to guide them. Sir Charles stated to
the court that one Of the many charges
published in the Times was that certain
PaTnellite members of the House OF
Commons were connected with an illegal
association and were sharers in the crime
OF murder. One alleged proof OF this
charge was a letter in which Mr.. Parnell
approved OF a fund-meaning an assassin
alton fund.
Judge Hammer said he understood the
Times would produce all the. letters and
documents affecting Mr.. Panell and the
others against whom it brought charges.
II the parties could not agree MS to the
production OF the papers the commits.
sion would deal with the disputed points
in chambers afterwards.
Mr.. Graham then opened the case for
the Times. After Il review OF the history
OF the "Parnellism and Crime" act, he
said thatit was now asked that the Times
should state whence it had derived its
information. Butif it divulged its source
OF information, the object OF the com
mission might be defeated and its In
quisitorial character lost, Sir Charles
Russell hereinsjstGd that the case should
not proceed until the commission decid-
ed the question Us to the production OF
all the documents in possession OF the
Times.
The Judges adjourned to the Cham
bers to consider the question. In short
time the commission returned to the
court room and Judge Hannen said that
they had the direction to order the dis
IcOvery OF the documents. He'did not
know what restrictions Sir Charles
would claim.
Both sides profess to be satisfied with
the preliminary tussle before the com
mission. The Parnellites are able TO
claim an important success in enforcing
the production OF the Times letters, in.
Guiding those OF Parnell and EgRn, and
one written by Campbell. Mr.. Farnell's
secretary
Mr.. Charles Russell demanded the
production OF all otheE letters coRnected
with the inquiry that are in the posses
sion OF the Times. The demand has
been met by arranging for the inspection
OF only those letters that may be speci.
fed by the Farnellites' counsel. The
ParpelIites again scored by getting the
court to instruct the Times to formulate
the definite charges it is prepared to
prove, as well as allegations falling short
OF definite charges,
The decision relating to the discovery
ofdocuments, combined with the courts
expression OF its determination to make a
thorough inquiry into the whole matter,
tends in favor ofthe Times. The question
OF the appointment OF commission to
examine Egan and others in America
was only touched upon; it will be raised
definitely when the commission resumes
The Emperor RepaIsed.
BERLIN, Sept. 1.-THE Third Army
Corps, led by the Emperor, was repulsed
after hot battle in an attack to-day
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