The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-01-21
Jackson's Jail Physician.

If the members of the County
Court of Madison County do not
climb down off the high horse
they have mounted there is strong
indication that the United States
Court will be moved from Jackson
to Memphis.
The aforesaid grand high moguls
of Madison county have served no.
tice upon the United States Marshal
for the western district of Tennessee
that the physician appointed by him
to attend the United States prison
ers in the Jail at Jackson will not
be allowed to perform his duty, but
that the United States prisoners
must be attended by the county jail
physician appointed by themselves.
This is not the first time that the
Madison county authorities have at
tempted to interfere with the Unit
ed States physician appointed to
look after the Federal prisoners.
Marshal Manson, the United States
Marshal, is empowered by law to
appoint a physician to attend the
Federal prisoners in whatever jail
they may be confined. The Mar
shaPs appointment of such an officer
is recognized as fully as the appoint
ment by him of his various deputies,
and it is said neither the County
Court of Madison county nor any
other body has any right to interfere
with the physician appointed by the
Marshal in the discharge of his dut-
les any more than such bodies have
the right to interfere with the Unit
ell States Deputy Marshals in the
performance of theirs. Marshal
Manson feels that he is entirely Sc
cure in the position he has taken
in this matter, as he has laid it be.
fore the Attorney General, and his
action so far has been sustained by
that official.
The last development in this af-
fair came yesterday afternoon in the
shape of notice to Marshal Manson,
served by Sheriff Carnes, to the eff
feet that by order of the County
Court of Madison county in future
the county Jail physician appointed
by that body shall attend United
States prisoners.
The United States Marshal says
he has not the slightest intention Of
submitting to any such dietation
If the physician appointed by him
cannot enter the Madison county jai
to attend the Federal prisoners in
carcerated there, then those prisoners
must be moved to some other Jail,
where the appointed government
physician will be admitted for The
purpose of discharging his duties
Now, it follows that if the United
States can no longer make use of the
Jail at Jackson the sessions of the
United States courts can no longer
be held there. Up to this time i
has been the practice of the United
States District and Circuit Court Of
the Eastern Division of the Western
District of Tennessee to be held al
Jackson, while the session of the
United States District and Circuit
court of thew esternDivision are hello
in Memphis. 1t was suggested by
Manson today that should it become
necessary to remove the court from
Jackson there was a strong proba-
bility that the move would be made
to Memphis, although this place is
not within the Eastern division, and
so special legislation would be nee
essary in order to effect the change.
The possibility of the removal OF
the Federal Court out of Jackson
would not be viewed with favor by
citizens of that place, as the court
expends annually about $4,000 at
that place, and it may be that this
consideration will have sufficient
weight with the County Court solons
to cause them to withdraw from their
present offensive attitude toward the
United States Marshal in the mat
ter of the physician. = Scimitar.