Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-05

to the commonweal movement and the
labor uprising during the summer, involv-
ing the use of the federal military forces
as posse comtatus. by this MEANS"
says the Attorney General, 1.-The perls of
grave situation We're averted, widespread
laWlessness was checked in its Initial
stages, great destruction of property was
prevented and large numbers of persons
Offenders not so much from vicious intent
as from actual and threatened want and
suftering-were saved the consequences of
serious crimes and escaped with only mod
crate penalties. . . To compel a set
tlenent OF disputes between the Pullman
company and portion of its employees,
nothing less was meditated and aimed at
tran complete stoppage of all the rail-
road transportation of the country, state
ana interstate, and freight as well as pas
senSer. Such result, involving, for a
city like Chicago, the loss of the very nec-
essaries of life, ii seemed to be the duty
of the department to prevent by the most
vigorous use OF all the legal methods at
its command. The strike at Chicago, SO
far as 1T involved the obstruction of United
States mails and the paralysis of inter-
state commerce, was practically broken
when the United States troops reached
that city, and, being broken at Chicago,
was In reality broken everywhere else"
Our Local Institutions.
The report contains several references
TO local institutions. Reviewing the report
of the president of the Girls Reform
School OF the District, the Attorney GEN.
eral says:
The report of the president shows the
| operation of the school, the beneficial re-
suits attained and to be expected from 1t
and the changes and improvements that
should be made in order to give full effect
| to the laudable intent of Congress in char
tering and maintaining IL.
1T appears, in brief, that the utmost
capacity OF the school is thrty-two girls;
that applications for the reception of more
| girls are being constantly received. but
denied for want of room; that the present
building is in some respects unsatisfac-
tory, especially in the matter of heating
and plumbing and that IL the building
| ninety girls instead of thirty-two, no adj
dtional force would be necessary for the
running of the school
THE suggestions of the president seem
| to me emiRently tudicious and reasonable,
and 1 respectfully urge their favorable
| consideration by Congress"
He repeats his recommendation of last
| year In favor of enlarged accommodations
| for the reform school of the District and
of proper provision for advanced instruc-
| ton in the more useful branches of me
| chanical industry. In this connection the
trustees called attention to the fact that a
| structure built and equipped at a cost ex
| ceeding $4,000, and capable of containing
| fifty boys, is closed and unoccupied, because
Congress failed to make an appropriation
| for the necessary officers, while some twen-
| ty-five boys under the age of sixteen years
| are now in the Jail and workhouse, because
| there is no room for them in the school
He also repeats his recommendation of
| last year, that the entire supervision and
/ mana cement of the United States Jail in the
| District should be placed under either the
| Department of Justice or the Supreme
Court of the District. The same recommen-
| dation was made by his predecessors in Of
| flee and has received the warm approval of
| the Supreme Court of the District The
| recommendations heretofore made for the
| NJ a TO hrlildipU nj
| female prisoners and for wall surround
| ing the Jail are also renewed. These are
| both greatly needed, the Attorney General
says, and would add materially to the sale
| ty of the institution and the welfare and
| discipline of its inmates.
Potomac Flats Case.
In regard to the Potomac flats litigation
| the Attorney General says:
This case is ready for hearing, but re-
I mains in the same position when the last
| annual report was made. The delay is at
| tributable to a serious question respecting
| the court that now has jurisdiction of the
| cause-it being matter of grave doubt
| whether such court is the Supreme Court of
! the District of Columbia or the Court of
| Appeals for the District Legislation cur
! ing the difficulty was applied for at the last
session of Congress, but without avail, and
will be again applied for at this session."
| reference is also made to the legal steps
| taken for the forfeiture of the charter of
the Metropolitan Railroad Company, fol-
! lows:
| THE two litigations referred to in the
| last annual report under this head have
| since been terminated-the act of Congress
| of August 2, 1894, entitled An act to au-
| thoriZe the Metropolitan Railroad Company
| to change its motive power for the propul-
| sion of the cars of said company being a
full recognition of the companys existence
and a conclusive manifestation of the in
| tent Of Congress that il should continue in
the exercise of its franchises"