The herald., 1894-07-11
LAW AND ORDER
Uncle Sans Power
Asserted.
Peace Enforced by the Grim
Dogs Of War.
Order Restored in Chicago by
the Army.
The Judiciary Now Having Its
Innings.
Judge Grosscup's Charge to the
Grand Jury.
Indictments Returned Against the H
Il. q. Officers.
President Debs and His Lieutenants
Arrested.
Conspiracy to Dslay Malls and Interstats
Commerce Chargsd-Al ADMIT
ted to Bail-The X. Oft.
Called Out.
Judge Grosscup's Charge to the
Grand Jury.
Indictments Returned Against the 4
Il. q. Officers.
President Debs and His Lieutenants
Arrested.
Conspiracy to Dslay Malls and Interstats
Commerce Charged-All Admit
ted to Bail-Tho X. oft.
Called Out.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 10.-Slowly but stead
lily, calmly and certainly, as befits the
supreme power of great nation
throughout all that wide stretch of its
domain where evil-disposed persons are
taking advantage of an exceptional
industrial condition to incite violence
and bloodshed. the federal government
is moving to the accomplishment of
that for which it's powers were delegated
to it by the people-the preservation OF
order and the safety OF life and property.
At Chicago, in connection with the
state and municipality, it has already
brought peace out of condition Of war
which prevailed last week. At San
Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles and
various points in Colorado and Wash
ington, where the unruly are creating
havoc, it has let loose the dogs OF war in
even il it has to fight for it. In this
city, the military arm has accomplished
its purpose. and the judicial arm has
taken up the orderly course of its duties,
which include fixing upon guilty parties
the measure of their crime and the
fitting of the punishment thereto.
JUDICIAL PROCEDURE.
The frat step in this procedure was
the assem- bling of the federal grand jury
and the delivery of charge to it by
Judge Grosecup, as set forth in sxtenso
elsew here in these dispatches. That it
is the intention OF the national authori.
ties not to be turned aside from an ex-
haustive inquiry into the questiona
which it has undertaken to pass upon
by mere techncalities, was evincsd at
the outset BY the brusqueness with
which it swept aside the plea of privacy
and privilege which the Western Union
Telegraph company, with due regard
for the privacy of the messages OF it's
clients, was forced to put in when the
Jury called for the messages from Presis
dent Debs to the members oil his order
which had been transmitted over ita
lines. The court held that public safety
was paramount to private right, and SO
ordered that the dispatches be pro-
duced.
OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE.
That it is the intention of the govern
ment not to be too long about the work
ia hand was shown from the fact that
the footsteps OF the telegraph official who
brought the dispatches had scarcely
ceased to re-echo along the corridor
leading to the grand jury room, when
that body flsd into the courtroom and
announced that it had found true bill
OF indictment. Pending the arrest OF
the person thus put under indictment,
his name remained locked in the breast
OF the lord executioner, and the public
was allowed to draw all ita conclusions
from tne premises hhu such pioihin~iy
data as it had at hand. That President
Dsbs was the man, none donbted, and
subsequent developments justified the
surmise.
A SPEEDY INDICTMENT.
Touching the outlook for tho future
outside OF Chicago, it may be said that
todsy's dispatches were almost uniform
in tenor to the effect that normal ccndi-
tions had already been restored, or that
they were rapidly approaching that.
state. and there seems no reason at thio
writing to suppose that the progress to'l
wards complete resumption OF trade
and traffic will meet with any serioal*