The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-01-30
In the Record letter from J Judge X.
+. Dick, Of Greensboro, dated Jan.
l4th, in which the Judge says:

cAusen such delay IN the courts In
disposing OF more important bust
ness, that the circuit and district
judges, after careful consideration
adopted rule Of court that commits
sioners OF the circuit court should
not issue warrants unless the inf orm-
ing afiidavits showed that the per
sons accused carried on the business
of retailing by frequent sales
"ln my charge to grand juries |
instruct them not to return u bill as
true unless the evidence before them
brings the case clearly within the
rule OF court. am very anxious 10
reduce the enormous expenses of the
courts incurred in these prosecu-
tions.
1.-THE defendents generally are
very poor and ignorant and have
large families dependent upon them
for the necessaries Of life
"lf judgment is prayed, am now
compelled by law to imprison them
at least thirty days and impose fine
of 800, and they have to remain in
prison another thirty days before
they can take the oath of insolvency
and be discharged.
1.-The strict and rigid enforcement
of this law does not and never will
stop the petty neighborhood retailing
of whisky, and l can see no public
good that can result from the prose-
cution of every person who sells or
offers for sale without payment of
the special tax"
Mr.. Lacey, of New York, speaking
on the question said:
81 remember more than twenty
years ago, perhaps twenty-five years
ago, demonstrated with the assist
ant district attorney in a case in
which l was engaged for bringing q
clearly frivolous charge. He said to
me, My friend, you do not under
stand the situation. The chief und-
er whom ] serve is entitled to $6, 900
year provided there is business
enough to make $4,000 a year.
have to make the business, and am
bringing suits in order to create bus
iness enough so thst he may earn his
salary"
Take first the State of Arkansas
the western district of that State.
1t will be interesting to the House to
learn that in that district the same
man performs the duties of clerk of
the district court, clerk Of the circuit
court, and United States commits
sioner, for which he receives the fol-
lowing emOluments AS clerk of the
circuit court he earned last year SO,
24l 60; as clerk of the district court
he earned 1871 .65; as United States
commissioner he earned 6,O32.7O,
making a total of $l2,372.S earned
by this one man, or $7,372.1O more
than the judge of that court received
for the performance of his duties.
have introduced a bill making
these officials salaried officers, so as
to dig up this whole fee system by
the roots. The "pernicious activity
of the deputy marshals and commits
sioners has done much to increase
the expenditures in connection will
the United States courts. Self-inter
est is involved.
Wednesday. January ""nd-Senate.
Eleven pension bill were intro
duced.
The resolution offered by Senate,
Pugh which directs the payment o
government obligations in silver
came up.
Mr.. Hill, the Democratic peanut pol
itician, said it would lead to a long d.
bate and requested that this be post
poned for a while so that Mr.. Woleot
could speak on the Monroe Doctrine
Mr.. Wolcott said that he would b.
pleased to have an opportunity t.
make his remarks to-day. and Mr.
Pugh yielded to him but said;
II feel compelled to yield to the
request Of the Senator from Colora
do, but l am very anxious to hav'
action upon this resolution, and
shall press action upon it wheneve
it is proper to do so. l hope that tn
next time it is called up there will b.
no objection to its consideration OF
the ground that we are to be int1ict
ed with the old goldbug argumen
against the passage of the resolu
ton. If we are to suffer that intlic
ton, the earlier the better"
Mr.. Wolcott then spoke on tn
Monroe Doctrine. His argumen
was directed entirely against tn
declaration of the Monroe doctrine
as propo sed in the resolutions recent
ly submitted by the Senate Commit
tee on Foreign Relations concerning
Venezuela, the war scare" &c. but
in addition to this, he buttressed hi
position with pertinent quotation
from President Monroe's message
with a clear analysis of the circun
stances under which those uttel
}. ances were made, and with a revie,
of national and legislative history
J. He contrasted the conditions in tn
9 time of President Monroe and thos
J at present existing, and emphasize
II the fact that in the whole of sevent
,, years Congress had NEVER GIVE
q FORMAL SANCTION to the much -di
9 cussed doctrine.
q He closed his speech with the fo
IS lowing eloquent peroration
a Mr.. PRESIDENT, We will prote
d our country and our country's inte
= est with our lives; but We wage !
7: wars of conquest. This republ
d stands facing the dawn, secure in i
n liberties. conscious of its high dc
n tiny. Wherever in all the world t
le hand of the oppressed or the dow
u trodden is reached out to US We me
le it in friendly clasp. In the old worl
"a where unspeakable crimes even nc
n darken the skies; in the Occidel
IS where old dynssties have be
D. crumbling for a thousand years, Al
still hang together strong in the
g. cumulation of infamies; in Sou
America, where as yet the forms
l free institutions hold only the spi