The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-28
EUGENE DEBs WILL GO TO JAIL.
application for a Writ Of Habeas
Corpus Denied.
The United States Supreme Court sus-
tains the Circuit Court Which San.
fenced Debs and O.her Leaders of the
American Railway Union to Jail for
Interfering With Interstate Com
merce-History OF tho Case,

WASHINGTON. May 27.-The United
States Supreme Court to-day denied the
application OF Eugene v. Debs, the
strike leader, for writ OF hsbeas corr
pus. The decision OF the court was read
by Justice Brewer and was unanimous.
there being no dissenting opinion. All
tho contentious Of the Governments were
sustained. The conclusions of the eoprt
as announced in Justice Brewers opin-
ion were that tho governments of the
United States was one having jurisdic.
ton over every foot of soil and over
every individual within the boundaries
OF the United States, and that, while it
was one OF limited powers, 1t had soyer.
eighty within those limitations.
IL had power to invoke civil courts to
remove distractions to interstate com
merce and the civil courts had the
right TO enJoiu those who made obstruc-
lions to such commerce. The ipiunc ton
was no bar to criminal processes for
acts done in violation of the injunction.
The circuit court having final jurisdic-
ton, Its act was not renewable by the
supreme Court on q petition for a writ
OIL habeas corpus and therefore the writ
was denied.
No more important question with the
simple exception of income tax has
come before he Supreme Court during
the past year than the attempt OF Debs
and other officers Of the American Rail-.
way Union TO secure q reversal of their
sentences to jail by Judge Woods for in.
terfering with interstate commerce and
the running OF the mails in the great
railway strike OF last summer
The history of the case is still fresh
In the public memory, but 1t has i'm
portance beyond the mere question OF
the Imprisonment of the American Rail-
way Union officers, because there is
largely involved the principle of the
right OF judges having jurisdiction of
large interests by virtue OF receiverships
created by them to prevent labor
troubles through the fundamentally Of
injunctions. Nearly one-third OF the
railroad property of the United States
being in the hands OF receivers SD.
pointed by the federal courts, the pre-
cedent to be established has wide appli.
cation.
Technically the application for writ
OF habeas corpus and the certiorsri
arises from the case IN equity of the
Union Trust Company against the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road,
since the receivershtp under which the
SAASoAe opaht incucu over the
Santa Fe and its allied roads WAS
created in that case On the Cd of
July, 1894, when the great railroad
strike was threatening, the receivers
applied to Judge Wood OF the United
States circuit court for the Northern
District OF Illinois for an Injunction
against the American Railway Union TO
prevent 1t from melting the en- oloyes
to strike. Judge Woods signed the
order presented, which was sweeping
one, enjoining the union from interior.
Ing with the malls or with the inter-
state commerce or from DESTROYING
property from compelling or inducing
the employees Of tho road to strike by
violence or intimidation or from aiding
or abetting them to do any OF these
things.
The American Railway Union Gecreed
strike on the Illinois Central road one
OF those included in the injunc.i lion, and
the events Of that strike are matters of
general knowledge. The officers of the
union were brought before Judge Woods
for contempt OF court last December.
e. V. Debs, the president, was GEN.
fenced to elk months In jail. and seven
others, George w. Howard. Sylvester
Keliher, l. w. Rogers, Jsmes Hogan,
VIM. e. Burns, Roy M. Goodwin and
Martin j. Elliott were sentenced to
three months.
1t appeared that the Injunction had
not been personally served ON the frat
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