Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-05
DEFIANT IN CRIME.
United States officers and Others Shot
Down by Desperadoes.
THE ATTORNEY GENERALS REPORT
On the Rampant Lawlessness in Some Sec-
tions of the Country.
STATE COURTS LENIENT TO MURDERERs

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Attorney General
Miller, in his annual report, says there is
an urgent necessity for the building of a
United States Jail at Atlanta. Ca. one at
Paris, Tex, and one at Louisville, KY, and
at other points where the average OF United
States prisoners in number is 100 or more.
Vigilant efforts have been made, he says, to
enforce the legislation excluding Chinese
immigration. One of the most common de-
vices for getting these people into the country
is to land them either in Mexico or the
Dominion of Canada, and permit them to
come across our southern or northern border
into the United States. By the co-opera-
ton of the officers of the Treas
ury Department and Department
OF Justice, however, it is believed
that most attempts of this kind have been
frustrated, as have the attempts to bring
them directly through the ports OF the
United States upon the Pacific. In regard
to the reorganization of the judiciary he
says:
For several years past the Attorney General
in his annual report has called attention to the
necessity of legislation for the relief of the
courts and especially the Supreme Court. 1t is
a matter of congratulation that during the last
session of Congress, each house passed CON-
prehensive bill for this purpose, which bills
have reached committee of conference. 1t
is earnestly hoped this legislation, so far ad-
vanced, will not now be permitted to fail, but
in spirit of copciIiaton differences will be
reconciled and this much needed legislation
will be completed.
Some Special Legislation Needed.
In this connection 1 beg to suggest that some
special legislation will be necessary for the re-
lief of the Circuit Courts at least in the
Eighth and Ninth Circuits. whose territory is
so vast and whose business IS constantly in
creasing.
The Attorney General devotes consider
able space to a denunclation of case and fee
making abuses, and says they call for the
most careful consideration and vigorous
treatment at the hands of Congress. In
chapter in regard to the difficulty OF en-
forcing the law of the land, the Attorney
General says:
In some parts of the country the lawlessness
to which attention was called in the last annual
report of this department continues. The en-
forcement of the internal revenue laws and of
the United States election laws is particularly
resisted; and officers of the internal revenue as
well as United States Marshals, are frequently
met with violence. and are occasionally the VIC
tins of assassination at the hands of those
guilty of violating these and other laws and
their friends. Several assassinations of Off
GERS and witnesses with the purpose of imped-
ing the execution of the laws and orders of the
United States have occurred during the past
year.
An Anomaly in Crime.
Within the last ten days a deputy marshal,
attempting to serve a warrant for the arrest of
a man for violation of the postal laws. was shot
and instantly killed by the man sought to be
arrested. and on preliminary examination be-
fore magistrate of,the State the prisoner was
promptly discharged.
1t is certainly an anomaly in government that
those who have committed murders for the
purpose of stopping prosecution in tNe Federal
courts should not only not be punished, but not
even be put upon trial. although in at least two
cases in one district during 1890, well known.