The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-11

Attorney General l have publicly charged
Col Thomas +. Barr the judge advocate
If the courtmartial with "subornation Of
perjury, suppression of evidence favorable
to the accused, and of deliberate misrepre-
sensations of the testimony in the case;
and worse than that | have in those briefs
proved my charges.
Did the comnissary in the Dreyfus case
over-match that?
l have publicly, in my printed briefs,
charged Capt. Gillette with attempted su-
formation of perjury and attempted intm~
dation of a witness; and / proved that
charge in my briefs.
Was the conduct of Gen. MERCER more
infamous?
Dreyfus was convicted by improper and
hearsay evidence.
Carter was convicted by improper ana
inadmissible testimony
Sterly. Cooper, Hale ct Id omne genus,
were permitted to testify to alleged pre-
vious conspiracies dating back ten years
before the one on trial was alleged to have
been formed
Carter's private pagers, Illegally seized,
were admitted against him, in fiat viola
ton of the constitution of the United
states, of the act Of Congress of March
IT, 1878 ard of The decision of Che Supreme
Court of the United States in Boyd VS..
United States. ll6 United States 6l6. This
was pronounced wholly Illegal by ex
Senator Edmunds.
\ mass of utterly inadmissible hearsay
evidence, too voluminOus 10 recaoitulate
here was admitted by the courtmartial.
Is not the parallelism complete?
The prosecution started out with thirty
seven specifications against Garter, the
Attorney General throws out all save one,
which is presented under four different as
poets, all relating to the $4,000 paid under
the 1926 contracts.
Senator Edmunds, to whom this case
was referred by the President, without
our knowledge. pronounced Carter no;
guilty" on these specific charges.
Attorney General Grigss says he is gull
ty. Senator Edmunds says he is innocent;
but nevertheless Carter IS between the
upper and neither stones.
If Garter is innocent, is not his punish
ment "damuable outrage"
You say that Senator Edmunds was at
torney for Carter. You are entirely in
error. lie was selected by the Secretary
of War, with the concurrence of the Pres
ident, to advise the President, and not by
us, or at our designation. He was a Who'll
ly impartial referee, and even declined to
hear argument from our side.
You say the verdict of the courtmartial
was unanimous. How do you know that?
The members of the court took solemn
oath not to disclose or discover the vote
or opinion of any particular member of
the courtmarual. unless required to give
evidence thereof as a witness by a court
of justice in a due course of law" For
any member of that court to state the
vote was unanimous, would he a viola
ton of his oath. Do you pretend any
member so informed you?
II | am any judge of human nature
and my profession requires that quality
I assert from my four months of close OBJ
serVauon of that courtmartial that at least
four members voted mot guilty"
The Attorney General announces that he
intends to institute civil and criminal pro-
ceediugs against the contractors in courts
Of the United States. Permit me to ven
ture a prophecy, He VIII fail lgnominious-
lyi a court is "a place where justice is
judicially administered" In such a TO-
rum, and thank God ell of our United
states courts answer to that description
the rottenness Of the Carter trial will be
exposed. and his innocence made plain.
There the refuge of lies shall be swept
away and the hiding place of the wicked
be uncovered" Frank F. Blair
Chicago oct 4, 1899.