Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-11

LlSS, WHICH luCluuo tue hAluB Ou BalASJs parties the measure of the crime and fitting of the punishment thereto.
 The first step in this procedure was the assembling of the federal grand jury and the delivery of charge to 1t by Judge Grosscup not to be turned aside from an exhaustive inquiry into the question which it has undertaken to pass upon by mere techn facilities.
 The effectiveness of the charge was evinced at the outset by the brusqueness with which 1t swept aside the plea of privacy and privilege which the Western Union Telegraph company, with due re- gard for the privacy of the messages of its clients, was forced to put in when the jury called for the messages from President Debs to the members of his order, which had been transmitted over it's lines. The court held that public safety was para mount to private right, and so ordered that t6e dispatches be produced. That It is the intention of the government not to be too long about the work on hand was shown from the fact that the footsteps of the telegraph officials who brought the dispatches had scarcely ceased to echo along the corridor leading to the grand jury room when that body filed into Judge Grosscup's court and announced that 1t had found true bill and indictment.
 Pending the arrest of the person thus put under the ban of the law, his name re- inained locked in the breast of the lord high executioner and the public was all lowed to draw it's own conclusions from all the premises and such preliminary data as it had at hand. That President Debs was the man none doubted, and subsequent de- velopments justified the surmise.
 Touching the outlook for the future outsideto Of Chicago, it may be said that to- day's dispatches were almost uniform in tenor to the fact that normal conditions had already been restored, or that they were rapidly approaching that state, and there seems no reason at this writing to suppose the progress toward complete re- sumption of trade and traffic will meet with any serious character as the coming days shall succeed each other.
 In other words it does not seem possible with all the forces of law aud order as now arrayed, but the leader by his own defense at the bar of justice, with their ranks be- ginning to be depleted by assertions, and with strains which have already endured, that the American Railway union can rally its forces for struggle which must needs be long and discouraging at the least. App parently, therefore, their only hope of triumph lies in the aid which they hope to get from union labor outside of their or ganization.
 As this is being written the order for all classes of labor in Chicago to go on strike tomorrow is being promulgated, aud it is expected that the order of Grand Mas ter Workman Sovereign of the Knights of Labor, calling on all members to strike and all who sympathize with the Pullman sIrIReape all over the country to come out with them, will lesllnw quickly. How generally these orders will Dc o5ssa,'ad is probiematical. To a good extent their effeCf, has been already discounted by the stagua- tion of business, and it is known that some of the longest headed of the labor leaders themselves believe that action has been postponed too long to be fully effective. At sunset tomorrow this nation will prob- ably know whether the situation is one of crisis or collapse.
 PLAN OF THE LEADERS RELATIVE TO CALLING OUT ORGANIZED
 LABoR-DEBs' coRREsPoNDENoE IN THE
 LAWS HANDS.
 CHICAGO, July 10.-The plan of the leaders for tomorrow is to call out first all organized labor in Chicago, and then to proceed from town to town until the entire country is paralyzsd or Pullman gives in,
 The immediate effect on Chicago, if all the trades obey the order to strike, will be to throw from 50, GOO or 100, ,000 persons out of em ployment.
 This afternoon E. M. Mulford, manager of the Western Union Telegraph company, was called before the federal grand jury to produce telegrams sent by President Debs. He refused on the ground that they were privileged communications. He was noti- fled by Judge Grosscup to appear with the telegrams. He again objected, and re- ferred the matter to the general attorney of bue cOunpauys lue uatteT WIS uuuer lOnS consideration, and the company's attorney sought on every legal provision at his com mand to avoid the process on the same point made by Manager Mulford, that the communications were privileged, and in the custody of the company as such. Judge Grosscup's notice was imperative, however, with the word that unless the telegrams were produced Manager Null ford would be sent to jail. Evasion being impossible the telegrams were produced in court at 3:30 D. m. The general attor- ney was in his office in New York, and the consultation between the Western Union officials was all by wire.
 DEBs AND OTHERS ARRESTED.
 CHICAGO, July 10.-Eugene V. Debs, president of the American Railway union George w. Howard, vice. president; Syl- vester Keliher, secretary; William M. Rogers and J. s. Merwin were all indicted spiracy to interfere with the United States mails. Debs was arrested at the Leland hotel at 5 O clock, and Keliher at Ulich's hall a half hour later. The other three are also believed to be under arrest. Bail was fixed at $10, 900 in each case. The penalty is a fine of from 5000 to SIG, ,000.
 THE WALK-OUT ASSURED,
 OWING TO FAILURE OF THE COMMITTEE.
 THE MILITARY WAS NEEDED.
 CHICAGO, July 10.-The committee ap- pointed by the mass meeting of trades unions held Sunday night to arrange for the arbitration of the Pullman boycott, failing to do which by o'clock today general strike was to be ordered, reported this afternoon that their efforts had failed,