The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-07-11
|THE LEADER ARRESTED
DebS Indicted by a Federal
Grand Jury.
TRADE AND TRAFFIC RESUMED.
Judge GrOOscup's Broad Charge to
the Grand ury.--0ther Arrests
to Follow.
AND TRAFFIC RESUMED.
Associated Press.

Chicago, July 1O.-Slowly, but steadily,
calmly and certainly, as BELTS the SUI
preme power of great nation through
out all the wide stretch of its domain
where evil disposed persons are taking
advantage of the exceptional industrial
condition. to incite violence and blood
shed, 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 the condition of war which
prevailed last week. In this city the
military arm has accomplished its pur-
pore; and now the judicial arm has
taken up the orderly course of it's du-
ties. which include the fixing upon the
guilty parties the measure of their
crime, and the fitting of punishments
thereto. The first step in this proceed
ure was the assembling of the federal
to it by Judge Grosscup. That it is the
intention of the national authorities not
to be turned aside from an exhaustive
inquiry into the questions which IL
has undertaken to pass upon by mere,
technicals, was evidenced at the outset
by the brusqueness by which it swept
aside the plea of privacy and privilege
which the Western Union Telegraph
Company, with due regard for the pri-
vacy of the messages of it's 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 its lines. The
court held that public safety was para-
mount to private right, and so ordered
that the dispatches be produced. The
grand jury was out only short time
when 1t filed into court and announced
1t had entered true bill of indictment.
Pending the arrest of the person thus
put under indictment, his name re-
manned secret. That President Debs was
the man none doubted, and subsequent
developments justified the surmise.
Touching the outlook for the future,
outside of Chicago, it may be said that
today's dispatches were almost uniform
in tenor to the effect that the normal
cinditions had already been restored, or
that they were rapidly approaching that
state, and there seems to be no reason
to suppose that the progress towards
the complete resumption of trade and
traffic will meet with any serious
check as the coming days shall succeed
each other
Apparently the only hope the Ameri-
can Railway Union now has of final
triumph lies in the aid which they hope
to get from the union labor outside Of
their own organization.
In his charge to the federal grand
jury today, Judge Grosscup said: "You
have been summoned here to inquire
whether any of the laws Of the United
States within this judicial district have
been violated. You have come into an
atmosphere and amid occurrences that
may well cause responsible men to ques-
ton whether the government or the
laws of the United States are yet SUI
prelne. The law must be vindicated
before we turn aside to inquire how the
law or the practice as 1t ought to be
can be effectually brought about. A
government by the law is imperilled
and that issue is paramount The gov
Of the United States has first
to protect itself and it's authority as a
government, and second, to protect it's
authority over those agencies to which
under the constitution and the laws 1t
extends its governmental laws. The
mails are in the special keeping Of the
government and the laws OF the United
States. To secure their unhindered
it Is made an offense toI
knowingly and wilfully obstruct the
passage of mail, or any carriage, horse,
or carrier carrying the same It is also
provided that If two or more personsl
together to commit any offensel
agalnst the United states, and one or
more Of such parties do any act toI
fleet the object Of the conspiracy, all
he parties thereto shall be subject toI
he penalty. The constitutin places the
'egulation Of commerce between the
'everal states and between the states
md foreign nations within the keeping
Il the limited States prr,,ernn,avt 49,.
hing which is designed to be trans
'orted for commercial purposes from
me state to another and is actually in
ransit or any passenger who is actually /
in any such interstate com
nercial transaction by car OF carrfage
Ictually transporting or engaged in the
ransportating Of such passenger or ,
gencses are the subject matter Of inter