The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-02
LATEST MOVE.
THE BONDS FIXED BY THE COURT
At $4,000 EACH.


None of the Homestead Advisory
Board Furnished Bail-The Arrests
in Contemplation for Some Time.
The strikers Counsel Oau 1t the
Crowning Outrage in the Melodrama.
PITTsBURG, PA, Oct. Nothing has
been done since the first trouble at Home
stead, except possibly the attempt on the
life of II. c. Frick, that has caused more talk
than the act Of Chief Justice Paxs0n in issu-
ing warrants for the arrest of the thirty
three Homestead men charged with treason.
This is the first time that a charge of
treason has been brought in any state for
acts arising from strikes or labor troubles,
and it is the talk among officials thatit is cer~
tainly proper that the great industrial state
OF Pennsylvania should be the first to settle
this question as to whether armed resistance
70 law is treason. All the judges Of the
supreme court now present in the city con
eulted over the cases yesterday in their
chambers in the court house.
c. Knox were sent for
and held q long consultation with the chief
iustioe. after which the justices again con-
suited and then District Attorney Burleigh
and Knox were instructed by the chief
Justice to prepare iuformatIons, aud County
Justice TO make the information and the
chief justice signed the warrants for the ar
rest of the accused.
The most novel part OF the cases will be
their subsequent disposition. The chief
Justice will hear an application for bail and
before the cases go to the grand jury he
viii call that body before him and deliver
to it d special charge on treason, fully de-
fniDg the crime and commenting on the
cases,
II WILL BE A NOVEL CASE.
Should true bills be found a proceed
ing never seen before will occur. Chief
Justice Paxson is an ex"oficio Judge of the
court Of oyer and terminer, will sit in that
court for Allegheny county and try the
cases. This will indeed be a novel and heres
tofore unknown thing, and will attract the
attention of the world and make the cases,
by reason of their peculiar circumstances, Of
worldwide noterietY. Brennan d
Cox attorneys for the strikers,
they term persecution of the defendants,
and made some very uncOmplimentary re-
marks about the cases and those engaged in
prosecuting them. They claim to have no
fear about the outcome, aud say is will not
be possible to make treason out of the acts
or an advisory committee. They hinted
that the long contemplated suits for treason
against the Carnegie people would now be
pushed. ODOnnell, CritchloW and Clifford,
three of the accused, are now in Jail making
nine already under arrest. It is expected
that more arrests will follow.
BAIL FIXED AT $4,000 EACH.
This afternoon an informal discus sion
was had by Justice Paxson and the attor-
neys for both sides in the charges OF high
treason against the Homestead advisory
Dard. Justice PaZSon decided chat the ac-
cused should give bail in the sum of $40, 900
each, but up TO late hour none of the de-
feEdauts now in jail had secured the neces-
sary bond.
The prosecutions we're not sprung sud-
denly" SAID Attorney Kno to-day. "Tt was
no thunderclap from a clear sky, except to
those not posted. We have been preparing
tne cases for months, securing evidence and
consulting on the matter. The reason the
cases were begun in the supreme court was
because 1t has always been the practice in
this and other counties TO begin suits
for treason in the highest courts This
Is done IN view OF the gravity
OF the oHense. The highest executive All
taorlty has been resisted, and it is proper
that the highest Judicial authority of the
state should first take co enhance Of the
ohense. The chief justice is an ex-oficio
Judge or the court Of oyer and terminer of
Iqls country, and also justice OF the peace.
he Issued the warrants, not as chief justice,
Lut as justice OF the peacen
THE GROWING OUrRKGE.
W. J. Brennan, attorney for the ANAL
Ramated association, was in anything but a
pleasant frame of mind when seen to-day.
lie characterized the arrest of the Home
s.eaders as the crowninR outrage in the
great melodrama Of the Homestead strike,
ana SAID that Justice Paxson had evidently
reversed matters and had caused the arrest
ot the wrong people. ''While," said Bren =
nan, we were just talking about bringin q
slIts against the Carnegie pc ople
!.T .l treason for bringing an armed force int o
.ue immunity aud attempting to usurp TIA g
y power of the governments of the munici .
panty and state, we have received letters
ron rom eminent lawyers all over the country
Urging suoh a step, and we have been 80 ad-
ylsed uy the best lawyers of our own bar.
n !. seems to me that Judge Paxson should
81 fellows"