The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-12-13
PURITY OF
ELECTIONS
Judge Dole Delivers Ills
Charge to Federal
Grand Jury.

Men who were prominent in the not
remote period of history making in the
| Hawaiian Islands, veterans of the Ha-
I waiian jury box, several leading CAM
paigners of both the Republican and
Democratic parties, representatives of
| large business interests and of the
mechanical trades--morea than one of
| these classihcations being in some cases
| blended in individuals-altogethe it
was a panel of jurors the like Of which
| has hardly been seen before in Hawaii
which assembled as a grand jury in the
| United States District Court yesterday
afternoon to receive the charge of the
court. 1t was the maximum panel of
70 men which obeyed the summons, but
p. c. Jones, the Nestor of them all,
| was excused at his own request by
| Judge Dole, on the ground of age and
the fact that jury duty he had per-
formed of late proved injurious to his
| health
| Following is the panel as sworn to
| investigate the matters and things to
be charged by the court for inquisition:
S. M. Damon, foreman; Geo. K. Kaia,
J. w. Mcdonald. F. L. Waldron, S. G.
Wilder, Chas. Butzke, c. G. Ballentyne,
J. p Winnie. Geo G. Watt, H. Lam
caster, S. N. Hundley, E. D. Carley
Hugh McCorriston, c. M. V. Forster,
J. A. McCandiess. w. 0. Atwater, ].
A. Gilman, J. P Cooke.-E. R. Bath
John Efinger. H. A. Wilder, ]. j..
Splitter
After the charge of the court had
been delivered as below summarized, {.
E. Calvert was sworn as bailiH to wait
upon the grand jury. Judge Dole placed
the courtroom at the disposal of the
grand inquest.
THE JUDGES CHARGE.
Judge Dole read his charge to the
grand jury, which began with a state
ment of the functions of that body.
He stated that matters would probably
be presented for consideration by them
Revised Statutes of the United States, |
viz:
SEC. 55o8. If two or more persons
conspire to injure, Cypress, threaten, or |
intinidate any citizen IN the free exercise |
or enjoyment of any right or privilege |
secured to him by the Constitution or !,
laws of the United States, or because
of his having so exercised the same; or /
if two or more persons go IN disguise |
on the highway, or on the premises OF
another, with intent to prevent or
hinder his free exercise or enjoyment
of any right or privilege so secured.
they shall be. punishable by fine and
Imprisonment.
"Section 54o3. Every person who
wilfully destroys or attempts to de-
stroy, or carries away any record, paper
or proceeding of court of justice. or
any paper, or document, or record filed
or deposited in any public Office, shall
without reference to the value of the
record, paper, document, or proceed
ing SO taken be punishable by fine or
at hard labor, or both.
Section 54oS Every officer having
the custody of any record. document,
paper or proceeding specified IN sec
ton 54o3, who fraudulentlv takes away,
or withdraws, or destroys, any such rec
ord document paper. or proceeding
filed in his office or deposited with him
or in his custody, shall be punishable by
fine, or Imprisonment at hard labor,
or both; and shall, moreover, forfeit
his Office and be forever afterward dis
qualified from holding any office under
the Government of the United States.
Among other observations the charge
contained the following:
''As grand jurors of the Federal
Court, you are probably voters and
NAV be more or less interested re-
SpectIvely IN the prestige ana good name
of the several political parties: which
interest, though laudable, must be sub
ordinated to the paramount interest OF
all citizens in the integrity of the state
and the moral and material prosperity {
dependent thereon. I
II need hardly remind YOU of the IN ]
,idious and weakening influence of such r
,cts as improperly interfere with the t
freedom of voting upon that great OBJ {
ect of government, the supremacy OF
aw. and upon the standing OF the
toIifical parties in whose behalf they
ire perpetrated, as we'll
"You are at liberty to apply to the }
ourt at any time for further instruc-
ions upon any of the matters already q
eferred to. or upon other subjects that 4
OH may have under consideration