Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-24
INJUNCTION AGAINST cARLlsLE.


The open announcement of Secretary
Carlisle's that he would arbitrarily is
sue so million in bonds is likely to meet
Chinese wall in the road. Issuing
bonds in this time of peace is so oppos-
ed to all sense of justice and so emf
nently subversiye of governmental prin-
ciples that the time has come to halt
the dictatorial policy of the admlnistra-
ton and determine whether we are Cit
lzens of republic or subjects OF des-
potic nucleus at the head of our gov
eminent. some one has to set the ball
rolling and accordingly when Carlisle
called for bids the following telegram
was sent out from the knights of La
Dor headquarters at Philadelphia.
J. X. Sovereign, General Master Workman,
Knights of Labor, Des Moines, la.
Secure counsel and go before the Unite j
State supreme court Immediately. enter in
junction proceedings against Carlisle. restrain
ing him from issuing fifty million of bonds,
The interests of the people upon whom the bur
den OF all taxation to pay the interest and prin-
cpal of these bonds fall require that you
secretary Of the treasury. enjoining him from
carrying any further debts while the resources
OF the government, if properly applied, are
sufficient to meet all lawful demands
(SignedD JOHN W. HAYES,
General Secretary Treasurer.
The following telegram was received in reply
to Secretary Hayes;
DIES MONIES, Iowa, Jan. 10. 1895
John Hayes:
Case submitted to council. If there is rea-
sonable ground on which to force standing in
court, injunction proceedings will be begun
at once. (signedl
J. II. SOVEREIGN,
General Master Workman.
A dispatch from Des MONIES, Iowa,
bearing date of January Goth, assures
us that the proceeding is begun in
earnest and that the application for An
injunction IS being pressed. 1t reads
as follows:
DIS MONIES, Ia, Jan. 20.-General Master
Workman Sovereign declared last night that
Judge Cole Of this city had been engaged to
prepare petition for an injunction to restrain
Secretary Carlisle from issuing bonds as pro-
posed. He will swear TO it and send t to Wash
ngton the first of next week TO be presented
to the District of Columbia court. Senator
Allen Of Nebraska has-pcen ask ed to make the
argument before the court
MIR. SOYereign's claims follows: There
is nothing in the law providing for a reserve
fund at this time in the United States treasury
OF 100 million dollars. There is no provision
ia the law for any special reserve as construed
10y the present government. The fact the Sec
rotary OF the Treasury is TO offer for sale a
greater amount of bonds than the socalled ie
gal reserve indicates that he is not Offering
them for the purpose of redemption and il
further shows that he has not offered them for
sale for any of the purposes specified in the
law of January IA, 1875, the redemption act.
The secretary of the treasury has no authori-
ty to offer bonds for sale for any purpose,
There is no deficit in the United States reserve
fund, for the silver at present in the treasury
is more than double the socalled deficit In the
socalled legal reserve.
If the secretary of the treasury is compelled
by law to keep in the national treasury 100
million dollars in gold he violated the law
when he reduced the amount below the re
quired sum and should be impeached; if he is
not required to maintain the 100 million gOlc
reserve, or any specific sum, his recent offer
to sell 80 millions of bonds under the act of
January IA, 1875 is without authority and in
sell bonds for the purpose OF keeping intact
the 100 million dollar gold reserve then his pro
position to sell bonds far in excess OF the deficit
in the reserve fund is still without authority
of law and in violation of his oath of Office"