Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-05
OLNEY ON TIE CHICAGO STRIKE.
rus ArroRNE, GENERAL MAKES
ms REroRr.
ne Tells consre-s why Troop. Were
Called out-rhe Leland stanford
suis--rhr Necessity for Union Pa
cinc REORGANIZATION.

washington, Dec. a-The attorney
generals annual report to congress.
made public today. shows that the af-
fairs with watch the departments OF
Justice have had to deal during tho
past year have been In some particu.
lars OF unusual intercat and Import
ancc. From the figures given tho com
tinuous growth OF business In the fed
ersd courts Is manifest In speaking
OF the supreme court the attorney
general says tina: at no blatant day II
will he .as distinguished Tor the
promptitude with which decisions are
rendered as ), once was FOR the de-
lays Inevitably accompanying them"
and predicts that the court IN the
course OF few years viii be able to
dispose OF its docket In q session of
two or three months, while the justices
Will be able 20 devote reasonable
amount OF time TO the Circuit court OF
appeals and to thus materially add TO
the efficiency and prestige OF those
coutts."
After mentioning tho steadily IN.
eroasing business of the court " APP
peals, Mr.. olney suggcsis that as the
aystom has come 10 stay. an addi-
tional circuit Judge should be- appointed
IN each OF the seventh and Ninth cir.
cults and possibly In the sixth,
inc Facts concerning the claim pre-
scented ~ the United States to the eN-
ecutriN OF the estate Ut
Leland stanford " terseiy
stated In the report IL Is shown
that under rthe constitution OF CalifOr-
al "A AM al al...N. a.
individually and personally liable for
HID proportion OF all It's debts and llahili-
Ties that the Central Pacific Railroad
company IL a California corporation,
and In the year 1869 absorbed tho West
ern Pacific Railroad company, which
was also "A California corporation, that
nld was gwen both corporations By the
unitcd states IN the shape OF subsidy
bonds, ana on account OF which and
the intereHt paid thereon by the United
states there will eventually result
when the subsidy bonds shalt have ma
iurcd. an Indebtedness to the United
states nggrogating In round numbers
100000, 900, that Leland Stnndford. at
the time that the subsidy bpnd- were
advanced. owned stock In both OF the
roads 10 the extent " one-qunrtor OF
the whole stock and hence became la.
BILE 20 the United states to the extent
Of onc-quarter ~ the indebtedness.
The report states that the claim In
wolves complicated questions both OF
law and OF fact-aa TO the merlia ot
which n ~ impossible to form any nh-
solutcly reliable Judgment In advance
OF thorough judicial investigation
ON this point the attorney general
says II was plainly the duty Of the de-
phrtmont 10 SEQ that the claim, what
ever lts value or merit was not prciu-
diced by the dccease of Stanford ana
tho administration OF his estate IN the
state probate court
The claim WIS presented, and except
This. no action has boon taken.
II have offered 10 bring suit uron
fho claim ~ once upon The dcfcndanta
agreeing that evidence tahnn N II shall
igc dccmcd evidence In any euheeduent
suit. " such subsequent suit were found
10 hc necessary
This proposition has not yet been
accepted"
The report Directs attention to recon.
mendationa In the last annual report
and requests ihtdr favorable consider
alton by congress-
Th@v relate toi
I. Adjustment Of the system by which
United States district attorneys mar-
fhals, clerks and commissioner are
paid hy fees,
q The yepung IN United Statea com.
DiHridnsrH wherever Il eau legally be
some, and ln the terrltOricH. certain ~
i3sdicu1u over nlnor offeuscs within
thp 1ruin so mif4enrtu0fT
% Natinr WH,- 81 eigut in cases OF
CRIME. NOT cpnlMb sm 40 the Hrclt
court of appeals lugtDad * no aupr int
court
/. The recognition OF degrees 20 a,s
crime Of murder and IN Tie ppnlshmeni
therefor
o. Wfita Of error on behalf OF the
United States In criminal cases,
The Encouragement briony reviews
the course taken by tho department
with reference 10 the ccInm0nwenlerA
Mr.. Olny devotes several pages OF his
report To the Pullman strike. In the
course OF which he says that the reln-
ton 10 Il OF the department OF Justice
was Indirect, and arose only whom the
railroads OF the country became IN
yolvcd and the passage of United
States mails and the movement Of In
,crs,nte commerce interfered with,
ITO compel q settlement Of disputes
between the Pullman company and "a
portion OF It's employer Gays the at
iorney.gcnerai, nothing lcas was mcdl-
fatod aud aimed at than q complete
Htoppngc Of oil the railroad tranHpOrta-
lion OF tho country, state and inter-
state ana freight aE well as passenger.
Such result. involving for city like
Chicago, the loaH Of the very urrcsaa-
rieH Of iife. Il seemed to be tho duty
az tho department 70 prevent BY the
use Of MI legal Weapons at It's COM
mAnd,
Tile attorney general reviews the ac-
lion Of the Emitted States mnighul under
tho direction OF the attorney general IN
procuring an Injunction from tho Enit-
I'd States court against Doba aud hla
associates. restraining them from all
Interference with trains carrying Unit
ed States malls or engGged IN inter-
niate trafile and Says that Il was hoped
that ,hs vigorous measures taken by
the marshal would prove adequate 10
tho emergency and that resort 10 the
military arm Of the Eoycrument would
be unnecessary. The situation. how
ever. did not IMPROVE and on July ; 4,
had become no serious that Marshal
Arnold. Judge GroHsrup and United
states Attorneys Walker and Nllchrlst
Joined IN q telegram urging the lnme-
date sending Of troops 10 Chicago. This
request was complied with and the NJ
suit Of the legal proceedings referred
20 and OF the mnnifrBt determination
and readiness Of the executive % carry
them into effect became at once appa-
rent.
The strike at ChicaRo. 40 far as II In
VOWED the obstruction ~ United states
malls and the paralysis OF interstate
commerce, was practically broken when