Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-11

NakHh up kut oASefAg UT uutlGst which include the fixing upon the guilty parties the measure of their crime and the fitting of the punishments thereto.
 The step in this procedure was the as- sembling of the federal grand jury and the delivery of the charge to 1t by Judge Grosscup. The national authority is not to be turned aside from an exhaustive in- quiry into the cases which it has under taken to pass upon by mere techniealities, and this was evinced at the outset by the brusqueness with which was swept aside tho plea of privacy and privilege which tho Western Union Telegraph company, with a due regard for tho privacy of the messages of its clients, was forced to put in when the jury called for the messages from President Debs to tho members of hIs order which had been transmitted over its lines. The court held that public safe ty was paramount to private right and so ordered that the dispatches be produced.
 President Debs' Arrest.
 That it Is the intention of the govern mcnt not to be too long about the work in hand was shown from the fact that the footsteps of the telegraph official who brought tho dispatches had scarcely ceased to echo along the corridor leading to tho grand jury room when that body filed into Judge Grosscup'S court and announced that 1t had found n true bill of indictment
 Pending tho arrest Of tho person thus put under the ban of tho law, his name remained locked in the breast of tho lord high exccutioner, and the public was aI- lowed to draw its own conclusions from all the premises and such preliminary data as it had at hand. That President Debs was the man none doubted, and subse- quent developments justified the surmise.
 Touching the outlook for the future outside of Chicago, it may be said that normal conditions have been restored, or that they arc rapidly approaching that state and there seems no reason to sup pose that tho progress toward n complete resumption of trade and traffic will meet with any serious check as the coming days shall succeed each other.
 In other words. it does not seem pos siblc, with all the forces of law and order us now arrayed, with their leader put to his own defense Ut the bar of justice, with their ranks beginning to be depleted by assertions and with the strain which they have already endured, that the Amer ican Railway union can rally its forces for n struggle which must needs be long and discouraging at the best.
 Calls For Aid.
 Apparently, therefore, their only hope of final triumph lies in the aid which they hope to get from union labor outside of their organization.
 The order for all classes of labor in Chi cago to go on strike this morning was promulgated, and that of Grand Master Workman Sovereign of the Knights of Labor calling on all members to strike and all who sympathize with the Pullman strikers all over the country to come out with them followed quickly.
 How generally these orders will be obcycd Is problematical To good cx- tent their effect has been already dis counted by the stagnation of business and it is known that some of the longest head cd of the labor leaders themselves believe that action has been postponed tOo long to be fully effective. At sunset today this nation will probably know whether the situation is one of crisis or collapse.
 General Miles stated that in his opinion the situation was generally quicter. and that no reports ot violence had come to his department during Tuesday other than the burning of tho bridge across he Calu- met river.
 ''Inccndiarisn, assassination and gen eral destruction arc usually the last rr- sorts of lawlcSs mcn,' said the general, and n few such c3issS as these may hc cN pcctcd until We c.itch few Of the offend. CTS and punish them.
 \ movement originated among CO., tcrie of Pullman stockholders on the board of trade to induce the resident directors of the Pullman company to bring their in nucncc to bear on Mir. Pullman to yield to demands for arbitration, or, if ncccs- sary, to call an emergency meeting of the executive committee of directors to act in- dependent of the president in the inter- csts of a majority of the ownership. The Gr and Jury's Work.
 The federal gr---l jury. after receiving the instructions of United States Judge Grosscup. returned indictments against Eugene Y. Debs president of the Ameri- can Railway union; Georgc W. Howard. its vice president; sylvester kclihcr. sec rctary, and l.. w. Rogers, ono of its di rectors, and shortly thereafter the fouI men werC arrested.
 They arc charged with conspiracy to commit an unlawful act-that Is, to block the progress of the United States mails Joined in the indictment with the fouI leaders of the railway union was James Murwin, the Rock Island striker who threw the switch which derniled n mail train at Blue Island on the night of June 3O. Dcbs, Howard, keliher and Rogers were taken into the office of District Attorney Milchrist immediately after their arrest, and after few hours detention were re | leased on bail by Judge Grosscup their bonds being SIC, GOO each.
 The federal grand jury spent but a short time on the case of Dcbs and the | other leaders of the strike. The case against them for conspiracy had been pre- pared some days ago by Attorneys Mil l christ and Walker. and the grand jurors had not been at work two hours when the 1 indictment was received and presented in court. It was based on some of the pub- l lie uttcranccs of Debs and the other lead | CTS. and this was clinched hy the original l orders in writing sent out by Debs direct | ing men on the different railways to quit their work and thus stopped the running | of mail trains.
 A large number of tc;oqrams sent by Dcbs from his headquarters giving dircc- | tions which extended tho blockade Of l trains, were submitted to the jury by F. NJ. Mulford, manager of tho Western | Union Telegraph company, under sub- pana issued by the United States court, Judge Grosscup overruling the telegraph company's protest that the messages were privileged documents and exempt from seizure
 President Debs Gets Hail.
 Marshal Arnold found Dcbs in his apart nents at the Leland when he took him into custody. The strike leader was sit ting in an outer room, which he used us 2n office. when the marshal appeared, and there were several persons with him. When the marshal introduced himself, asking the marshal to go with him, and then the marshal showed his warrant
 II am ready to go with you, said Debs, with apparent chcerfulness as he walked into the outer room and reached for his hat and walking stick. II have been in- 1icted and arrcsted,'' he said to those who were in his office. and without any fur thor remarks ho hurried away with tho marshal.
 While the hail was being arranged At turney John F. Gecting joined the party in the district attorneys office. He was rctaincd by the railway union officers on