The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-07-23
WAITING NEXT STEP

That Judge PritcIlard viii
Now Issue An Injunction Against
tho Enforcement of the Judgment
1T is Presumed That Mr.. Green
Has Lost His Job by Submitting
to the Court and Promising to
Wide Range and MIR. Thom Re
peatcd His Famous Speech Of
February Entitled the Facility AS
Against the Charge
Convicted by the jurytof the WAX e
county court of violating the law by
selling tickets for the Southern
Railway, passenger agent, T. E..
Green yesterday chose to pay a
nominal fine in lieu of running the
risk of such sentence as the court
might impose upon him.
The Southern Railway, his prin-
cipal, was then fined by Judge
Long the sum of thirty thousand
issue.
Mr.. Green, who had previously re-
fused to give bond, and actually per-
mitted himself to be put in jail for
one night, and who was still IN the
custody of the court, was told by
Judge Long that he had the option,
either to obey the court and prom
Use to refrain in the future from
selling tickets at the illegal rate or
in ut do of
fiance and disobedience to the
court.
After consultation, Mr.. Green an
nounced through an attorney that
the fact that he had an aged mo-
ther in a delicate condition of
health constrained him to pay the
nominal fine of five dollars and take
the obligation to discontinue sales
at the illegal rate, although he did
not consider that he had commit
ted any wrong or crime.
Just previously to this, Mr.. F. H.
Busbee, of counsel for Mr.. Green
and the Southern Railway had
stated that Mr.. Green desired a
little more time, as his occupation
and LIVELIHOOD depended largely
upon his decision.
Mr.. Green is now presumably
without employment. He is man
of ability, character and tried faith
fulness. He has chosen to obey
the law, and his recommendation
lies in this fact.
In pronouncing sentence of $30,-
600 fine upon the Southern. Judge
Long stated that the time had come
when there was a parting of the
ways; that the situation he had
faced was, first to obey his oath and
the law of the land; second, to
Sr11otber- his conscience and
his duty or fail to perform it; or.
third, to resign as a judge of the
Superior Court of North Carolina.
He had taken the first course.
The defendant, Southern Railway,
had put itself in an attitude of
sought TO deprive the State courts Of
their jurisdiction.
The sentence having been impos-
cd. the counsel for the Southern
stated that. under the rule. they
had ten days in which to give no
tice of appeal, but made no move
actually TO appeal to the Supreme
Court.
Agent Green, having relieved
himself of the position of pawn In
the game" manifestly no writ of
habeas corpus can issue, as he no.!
has his liberty. The recourse of the
Southern Railway. as talked upon
the streets, is that it will now ap-
ply to Judge Pritcnard for an in
junction against the carrying out
of the order of the court by the
sheriff of Wake county.
The matter rests in the future. II
now looks as though the State has
won the preliminary fight and that
the forum through which the right
OF the State to proceed under the
rate bill Will have been found and
its decision obtained before. rea-
sonably, the pending litigation be-
fore Judge Pritchard shall have
scarcely left the hands of the spe-
ciaI master.
The result in the case only came af-
er six o'clock in the afternoon Court
"nFened at half after nine in the
morning for argument and counsel
re limited to two hours a side The
5ate only consumed three quarters
I It's time, closing with the speech of
N-GoVernor Aycock, who was pecu-
'erly characteristic, the crowd being
ION completely, and the jury, that
d sal through hours of technicality,
gal skirmish and boredom. waking
Up as though they were under the
"-uence of a Stimulant
10 pu1 the argument III brief space.
might be said that it included on the
ldtt OF the State the contention
ii1"I there did not exist either the law.
,!;s: constitutional authority or the de-
,l,,3t2 'f the Judiciary that any court
,eso --o interfere with the criminal pro-
thal o5 Court of a Sovereign State:
pla..,as s'e Southern Railway had dis
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OF Stata authority and Of the J