Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-25
THE GRAND JURY Which for Two Months Past Has
 Been Studying Doings IN THE CRESCENT CITY Reports Some Things Which Are Not the Proper Caper. Suggests Investigations.
IN THE CRESCENT CITY

NEW ORLEANs, Dec. 2i. The grand jury, which has been continuously in ses- sion for two months, made it's final re- port today. Judge Ferguson thanked the jurors for their distinguished services and personal sacrifices they had made during the past iwo .onths, and discharged them without date.
 The report mentions the alarming extent to which willful perjury has increased; the large sums squandered in the new court house and jail through jobbery or divided as spells; the utter want of decency and self-respect manifested by indicted council men; strongly condemuing the mayor for not suspending them pending their trial i; the evidence of official corruption, and recommending the closest scrutiny ot ordi- nances granting contracts and franchises. I he action of the police in the recent levee troubles is strongly condemned. Prizs fighting or socalled glove contests ought to be summarily suppressed.
 In reference to perjury the jury says: "Williol perjury for tue purpose of shield ing criminals is either becoming more fre- quent or presenting more alarming stage, and unless checked by stern measures will soon become au ordinary method of hiding crime and defeating the infiction of its penalties.p
 In reference to municipal iobbsry the re- port says:
 s.The bold sale of official votes for privi- leges which belong to the future as well as the present; the sworn evidence of citizens that couucIlmen in champoning their proper application for ordinances warned them that their passage was impossible unless paid for; the unbiushlng effrontery with which cIliZsns Were waylaid In the ely hall corridor to have dishonest pro- posas made to them; the mysterious pay inent for franchises of hundreds of thou. ands of dollars, which never had seen the public treasury: the official favoritism which secures contracts to one and excluoe5 another; the charging of fees by clerks in the mortgage and conveyance ofhc:s, and at the city hall in that part Of the comptroll- er's office known as the tax mortgage office, require but 0 recital to show the de- gree to which official dsbauchery has gone, and we recommend an unrelenting war upon all suca methods and the lnf1iction of the styerest penalty upon each exposed offender.'
 On the subject of public contracts and franchises the report says: "The evidence oi official corruption and individual cor porate greed going hand in hand, the one used to fich from the people their public assets for the aggraudizement of the other, aud the sworn testimony of citizens that the public treasury is not the first consid- eTation when contracts are to be let or when franchises are sought, calls for the righteous indignation of all honest men, and the closest scrutiny of future ordi- nnnces gran ing contracts and franchises is recon me nded.'
 Under the caption of Sunday law viola tions the jury says: "Your jury charges that the fertile source of crime is the un- closed saloon openly and consistently vio- lating he law every Suuday.'
 Referring to gambling, tine report says that the jury is of the opinion that 'tgam- bling is carried on in the city to an alarm ing extent, notwithstanding the stringent saws against it. We further believe that these gambling rooms are not unknown to our police, and that for reasons best known to them the places continue to operate in open defiance of the law.o
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