The morning news., 1894-04-19
The GRAND JURY MEETS.
JUDGE SpeeT Ably InStructS That
BOdy in the Duties Before It..

of Justice on account OF the : azure
of a Grand Jury-Papers From the
T4sering in Washington Put on File.
A Decree Taken in the Case of the
Western Union Telegraph Com
,anv's ervention-Another Inter
vsntion Decided.
The principal work before the United
c,,.as court yesterday was the impanel-
trrof the grand jury for the April term.
The Grand Jury was drawn and sworn as
fouoys: C. L. Montague, foreman; J. H.
richards. w. 0. Cubbedge, w, J. Vim,
II T. EstiH, w. J. Lindsay, Robert P.
1ovell John Lyons, G. B. Malone, T. H.
N,>rillan, Jacob Paulsen, John Rourke,
W p Schirm, A. L. Shellman, T. N.
rbeus. I. B. Tiedeman, J. d. Murphy,
hamilton Branch, Charles F. Cler, c. S.
Connerat, R. H. Cornwel, and P. D.
Dafin.
Judge Speer's charge to the grand jury
was characterized by his usual strength
and eloquence In speaking to these bodies.
ga told them how their body was provided
for by the constitution of the United
States. After referring to the importance
Jury Judge Speer said:
NO FAILURE BY A GRAND JURY.
"Tbere is not a man within the broad
COMPASS os this great country who is not
Interested in the fidelity with which this
rarticular grand jury shall perform its
duties There is nothing which tends
more to advance the prosperity of COM
mnity than a rigid and impartial en-
forcement of the law. There is nothing
which binds the people to government
more strongly than the pure and impair
tiaI administration Of Justice. Communi-
lies where laws are obeyed and where
tha laws are enforced always, every
where, in every land, enjoy all the bless
ines of civilization, everything which
tends to make man happy and life worth
living
"On the contrary, in these se-communities
where the laws are not enforced, where
there is disposition toward Indifference
orneglect on the part of those. charged
with the enforcement of those laws,
which are merely rules of human conduct
commanding that which is right and pro-
hibitiug that which is wrong, those com
muities are the homes of misery and are
Invariably the objects for tina reprobation
and sometimes for the scorn of well~nean-
ing, law-loying people everywhere. In
our district, we most happily have,
so far as the action of the iuries and
grand juries can give it, consistent re-
spect of the law and an invariable habit
Of enforcing it. have never known in
my experience as Judge a single case
where there has been failure of justice
in a government prosecution by the fail
ure of duty on the part of the jury, and
that experience extends over nine years l
may say of every criminal case tried in
the United States courts for nearly two
thirds of the state of Georgia. That is a.
very broad statement, but it is a truthful
statement, and 1t is one in which I have
taken great pride and pleasure in making.
not only here among our own people, but
elsewhere in communities, where there
has at times existed disposition to be-
licve that our people did not enforce ma
tiOnal laws
CRIMES TO BE PUNISHED.
Judge Speer said the government does
not desire that trivialities be prosecuted,
butthat the United States laws are imbued
with the most sovereign principles of
humanity. Only those instances of crime,
he said, which tend to injure the we'll
being of citizens of the United States are
made penal by the statutes, and in such
instances all citizens are directly inter
eSted
He said there was no difference what
ever in the degree of Importance between
the crimes for which a state holds a per-
son liable and those which the laws of
the United States prohibit. He referred
too to the education of the public mind by
tne enforcement or non-enfOrcement
OF the law. The disastrous effect of the
non-enfOrcemeut of a law, even though it
De an unpopular one, on the minds of the
Young, was also referred to. Judge Speer
SAID he anticipated for the grand jury a
Snort and he hoped, pleasant session.
SOME CENTRAL RAILROAD PAPERS.
Some papers connected with the Cen
tral railroad hearing in Washington
which We're received yesterday were
placed on file in the court.
Among them was the intervention of
StlIWell x Co., to recover on a contract
lof LOB Of cars turned over to the Cen
tfaI. This firm bought 100 fat cars, two
passenger coaches and one combination
car from the Ohio Falls Car Company, the
Total cost of which was S53, 1923. so. The
larger part OF the amount was to be paid in
monthly lnstalments. The cars were
aIIerWords sold to the Central railroad,
ana thls company assumed the monthly
payment according to contract. These
Htlo0ntnly payments were stopped Feb. !,
u, IS9f' at which time there was due $9, ,257. SO.
I me court granted an order requiring the
central to pay the amounts due
=, ne order permitting tho receivers of
the Central to file monthly accounts with
eIe s4e court, instead of quarterly was also
IIed' Among other papers was an order
se!1,tlno9rlzing q! u or the road to pay A. J. Winton
So+lI5 Tor work done at the Central rail
Ioad wharf, and an answer to the inter
'euIlon OF the Georgia Fruit Exchange.
THE DECREE FILED.
The court signed the decree in the
case OF the Western Union Telegraph
CSonlpany's intervention. 1t requires the
central to pay the Western Union Com
Pany 8ll 1867 with interest at per
cent from July 81, 1890; S12, OBS. 80 With
interest from July 81 1891; and S2.25O A
win interest from March 4, 1892. The
coSIS OF the proceeding were also as
Se5Sed against the Central railroad.
r, III the matter of the intervention of e.
H. H. Smith for S9325O for making rate
sueets Tor different railroads, which he
aIeged was collected by the Central but
refused when he asked for it, in which the
MASTER found against the intervenor, the
= ddoport OF the master was confirmed, and
Uecree VIII be taken this morning.