The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-18
DEBS STILL IN JAIL.
A. R. U. Officers ENJOYING Their
Respite from Work.
Passed a Comfortable Night and
Saw No Ghosts.
Debs's Case Compsredtto Master
Workman Quinn's In New York.

Uy Associated PressD
CHICAGO, July 1s--Debs seems to en-
JOY jail life, and SO do George w. How
ard, Nice-Presdent; Sylvester kcliher,
Secretary, and r. w. Rogers, "a director
of the A. X. L. All of them were sml-
ing and in the best of spirits to-day
after their first nights experience in
the Cook County Jail.
A large party of the personal friends
of the imprisoned strike leaders came
early to the county Jail. but the daily
corridor scrubbing was in progress, and
no one was admitted for some time.
President Debs sent word down to the
waiting visitors that himself and friends
had enjoyed a good nights rest, and
had nothing to say that would interest
the public.
Before II A. NJ. Debs came down from
his cell to meet his stenographer, who
had arrived with bundle of mail for
him. The President was in good humor.
i had the best nights sleep ] had in
II month or two" said he. Nothing
disturbed me, not even the ghost of that
man who was hanged the other day,
and whose spirit is said to be roaming
about in here. l have absolutely moth
ing to add to what have already said,
concerning our arrest We are here and
will stay here until next Monday, at
least"
President Debs then fell to looking
over his big batch OF mail matter.
Vice-President Keliher came dow from
his cell in the debtors department. and
while awaiting his turn in the barber
chair said:
1--WE are still enjoying this respite from
work"
Considerable conflict Of opinion seems
to prevail among lawyers in this city
concerning the business of Debs's com
imitment for contempt, many maintain,
Ing that such action was unwarranted
at the present stage of the case.
Assistant District-Attorney Henry w.
Unger' was outspoken in his condemna-
ton Of the proceedings: and said that
dicating the law, only tends to bring
TIE courts sns, in H. contempt OF the pubIie.
said: while I have been counsel for
many labor organizations. and am in
touch with them now. my opinion is In
As naked proposition. ] consider it
wrong to punish man for disobeying
| an order Of Court when the order Itself
cannot stand.
| 1888 during the fractional fights in Dis
trict Assembly 40. in this city. Quinn
and his followers had obtained an order
from the Superior Court to prevent Bres-
with Quinn's possession of Pythagoras
Han and, armed with this Injunction,
and under color Of 1t, Quinn served II
possession of the hall.
II then advised Breslin's people, whom
| l represented. that such an order could
| hnn tod tyr,tNN .FlkFi Flaf
and that 1t could not in any way be used
to change the status of affairs. Breslin's
people were on the point of relinquish.
ing: but upon this advice they hurried
up to the hall. and armed with shotguns,
| pistols and clubs they presented Quinn
| with the freedom OF the city by landing
him on the sidewalk and drove his fol-
lowers and process-eervers out by main
| force.
"Quinn's counsel Louis T.. Post. then
made motion to punish my clients for
| contempt, and the matter came up be-
fore Judge Freedman in che, superior
Court. The Judge denied their notion
on the ground that the Bres''n people
were justified in resisting IN Invalid
Injunction. although he reserved the
point as to whether they did not en-
pluy more force than was necessary 10
| do So This decision Is reported in the
New York Law Journal OF, that month;
1T will be observed in that case that
the injunction order was not alone re-
sisted but the enjoined parties resorted
| to violence in overcoming results fiow-
ing from It, while in the Debs case no
| overt act so far as | can see, has been
traced to Debs or his associates.
| Another odious incident of the whole
| AFFAIR is the manner in which Debs was
disposed of when made a prisoner; for,
according to newspaper reports, he ap-
| pears to have been treated like com
mon felon, his pockets searched. and no
feature Of prison life being relaxed In
his case II IL we'll settled that per
son imprisoned for contempt Of Court Is
a la .HlA
and not as "A convict or person await
ing trial for crime