The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-11
DRBs UNDER ARREST.
Four Other Leaders Also Taken in for
Obstructing the Mails.


Chicago, July 10-Slowly but steadily,
calmly and certainly, as BELTS the supreme
power of great nation throughout all
that wide stretch of it's domain where
evilly disposed persons are taking advan-
tage of an exceptional industrial condition
to incite violence and bloodshed,
the federal government is work
ing to the accomplishment of that
for which its power was delegated
to it by the preservation of order and the
safety of life and property. At Chicago,
in conjunction with the state and the mu-
nicipality, it has already brought peace
out of the condition of war which pre-
vailed last week. At San Francisco, Sa-
cramento, Los Angeles and various points
in Colorado and Washington, where the
unruly are creating havoc, it has let loose
the dogs of war in token of its intention
to have peace even if it has 10 fight
for it, In this city, the
military army having accomplished
its purposes, the iud icial army to-day
took up the orderly course of its duties,
which include the fixing upon the guilty
parties of the measure of their crime and
fitting of the punishment thereto. The
first step in this procedure was the as
sembling of the federal grand jury and
the delivery Of the charge to it by Judge
! Grosscup, not to be turned aside from an
! exhaustive inquiry into the questions
which it has undertaken to pass upon by
mere technicalities.
DEBs' DISPATCHES DEMANDED.
The effectiveness of the charge was
evinced at the outset by the brusqueness
with which it swept aside the plea of
privacy and privilege which the Western
! Union Telegraph Company, with a due
regard for the privacy of the messages of
| its clients, was forced to put in when the
| Jury called for the messages from Presi-
! dent Debs TO the members of his order
! which had been transmitted over its
lines. The court held that public safety
was paramount to private right, and so
| ordered that the dispatches be produced.
| That it is the intention of the
| government not to be too long about the
| work in hand was shown from the fact
! that the footsteps of the telegraph official
| who brought the dispatches had scarcely
/ ceased the echo along the corridor lead
ing to the grand jury room when that
| body fled into Judge Grosscup's court
| and announced that it had found true
/ bill of indictment. Pending the arrest Of
| the person thus put under the ban of the
law, mis- name remained locked in the
breast of the lord-high eXecutioner and
the public was allowed to draw its own
/ conclusions from all the premises and
such preliminary data as il had at hand.
/ That President Debs was the man, none
| doubted, and subsequent develop
ments justified the surmise, for
| Eugene V. Debs, president Of the
/ American Railway Union; George w.
/ Howard, vice president; Sylvester
/ Keither, secretary; M Rogers and }. 5.
! Merwin were all indicted for conspiracy
! IN interfere with the United States mails.
! Debs was arrested at the Leland hotel at
! 3 o'clock and keither at Uhrlich's hall a
half hour later Bail was fixed at 100000
/ In each case. The penalty is fine Of
/ from 81 900 to $4,000.
THE TILT OVER THE TELEGRAMsA
This afternoon i. NJ. Mulford, manager
of the Western Union Telegraph Com
| many. was called before the federal
/ grand jury TO produce teie-
/ grams sent by President Debs. lie
/ refused on the ground that they
we're privileged communications, He
was notified by Judge brosscup 10 appear
with the telegrams he again objected
] and sent the matter 10 the general attor-
nav OF The company. Tho matter
was under long consideration ana the