Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-07
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
 From All Quarters. SOME PRESS COMMENTS. Various Papers on the Work
 of the Hennessy Jury. FRUIT DAMAGED BY SNOW AND FROST Seizure by J. s. Officials
 of a Chi|ian Vessel. HARRISON IN TIVE FAR NORTHWEST. A Feeling of Uneasiness
 in Rome.
HARRISON IN TIVE FAR NORTHWEST
NE~spaPER COMMENTS.

What, Various Papers Think of the Work of the New Orleans Grand Jury-The Journal~Strikes the Key Note-What the Italian Consul a, New Orleans Thinks. BOSTON, May 6.-The Herald says: "We are aware that it exceedingly difficult tc prove conspiracy, but it seems to us that if, as is certain of the people and newspa- pers of New Orleans maintain, there was 8 great and practically universal uprising of public sentiment in that place concerning this affair, the grand jury could have got rather more evidence of guilt than 1t has succeeded in obtaining. That is, it acquita in effect, the jury which, it says, should have brought in verdict of guilty in the first degree, and acquits the men who, in the absence of this verdict, proceeded to execute the accused. Although, in certain respects, the lynching may have salutatary results, we should say that the effect of the whole affair would be to greatly lessen public confidence in the administration of justice in Louisiana.
 THE JOURNAL.
 The Journal says: It is hard to see how the jury could have done otherwise than it has done, for it is impossible to indict Q whole community. The guilt and disgrace really attach not so much to individuals as to the city of New Orleans, and in part to the United States, which, with uncon- scionable folly, has permitted this flood of foreign miscreants 10 pour in upon us. It does not behoove northern communities to point the finger of pharisaical scorn at the people of New Orleans who, when they found their courts administering only a mockery of justice, met mob law by mob law. Under like provocation none of us can say that we would not have done as they did. The affair has an emphatic les son in it, both for New Orleans and the United States. It warns New Orleans to put it's house in order, to reform it's legal machinery and purify it's politics.
 THE GLOBE.
 The Globe says that the New Orleans grand jury has shown more boldness than discretion in refusing to find any indict- ment against the leaders of the mob, but that 'there is no question that in this the grand jury expresses the almost unani nous sentiment of the English speaking people of New Orleans" Continuing, the editorial says: 'It is evident that the peo- pie and the courts of Louisiana are deter mined to stand by the mob. Rudini and Fava are unquestionably correct in their assumption that the leaders would not be punished in the ordinary course of the criminal law of Louisiana. Coming just at this time the action of the grand jury is, from a diplomatic point of view, ex- ceedingly injudicious. It is likely in the present strained relations of the two countries to infame Italy to still greater degree. Still it supplie sItaly with just the diplomatic weapon that government needed. People conversant with the facts readily believe that the Louisiana courts would ever bring to jus tice the men who led the mob, but official ly there was every reason to presume that the transgressors of the law would be pun ished by the law. This presumption, as long as it was officially tenable, greatly weakened the Italian governments side of the controversy, but it is tenable no longer. By it's action the grand jury has greatly increased the diplomatic difficulties of the situation. If Italy really desires war and is seeking an excuse for it, the report of the grand jury supplies her with more ex- cuse than she has had heretofore