The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-04-27
THE PRESIDENT SAYS
THAT THESTATE OF AFFAIRS IN
FLORIDA CANNOT BE
TOLERATED..

He W rites To the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
And the Attorney .General Writes to
the u. s. Marshal--And Tells Him
What to Do.-And How to DOIt.
[By United Press.l
WASHINGTON, April 26. The President
has sent to Attorney General Miller the
following letter:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
April Gath, 1890.
To THE ATTORNEY GENERAL:
SIR: Il have had frequent occasions
during the last six months to confer with
you in reference TO the obstruction Of
fered in the counties Of Leon, Gadsden
Madison and Jefferson, in the State of
Florida, TO the execution of the process
OF the cours of, the United States. 1t is
not necessary TO say more OF the stua-
ton than that the officers of the United
States are not suffered freely to exercise
their lawful functions. This condition
Of things cannot be longer tolerated.
You Will therefore instruct United
States Marshal Weeks, as soon as be has
qualified, to proceed TO at once execute
such writs of arrests as may be placed
in his hands If he apprehends resistance,
he will employ such civil posse as may
seem adequate to discourage resistance
or to overcome it. He should proceed
with calmness and moderation, which
should always attend a public officer in
the execution of his duty, and at the
same time with frmness and courage
that will impress the lawless with a
wholesome sense of the danger and fu-
tlity of resistance. You will assure the
officers of the law, and those who have
foolishly and wickedly thought to set
the law ut defiance, that every resource
lodged with the Executive of the consti-
tuition and the laws will, as the necessity
arises, be employed to make it safe and
possible to hold a Federal commission
and to execute the duties it imposes.
Very Respectfully,
BENZ. HARRISON.
Acting upon the advice of the Presi-
dent, Attorney-General Miller, to-day
sent the following letter to Marshal
Weeks:
WASHINGTON, April &c. 1889
RoBT. c. WEEKS, L. s Marshal,
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.
SIR You have doubtless ere this re
ceived your commission as United States
Marshal for the Northern District o1
Florida. For several months in youl
district, warrants of arrest, issued by I
;. Courts, have not been executed, be-
cause of resistance, actual and threat
ened, by those sought to be arrested anC
their partisans. This state of things can
not longer be tolerated. a lette
from the President, of which l enclos'
copy, speaks for itself. You will a
once proceed upon the lines indicated il
that letter, and report promptly any at
tempt to interfere with you in tn
discharge of your duties. am informe
that recently, in some places, the maj
shall seeking to serve writs IL ordinar
civil cases has been refused the ordinar
accommodations, such as horse hire
hotel entertainment &c to enable sue
service to be performed. By such mean
the officers of the government can b
put to great inconvenience, but the
cannot, and will not be prevented frol
executing the process of the cour
Means can, and will be found for trans
. porting and subsisting the goverEmer
officers wherever it is necessary for thel
to 90 in order to arrest and bring int
court offenders against the law.
Very respectfully,
w. H. II. MILLER