The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-26
CRISIS TO COME SOON.
Rate Lew Situation in North Carolina
Can't Last Much Longer.

Washington. July 26.-Officials OF
the department of justice are expect
| ing a crisis in the rate law fight in
North Carolina at almost any moment
They still decline to take an entirely
pessimistic view of the situation, saying
that they cannot conceive of the state
authorities persisting in the mainten-
ance of an attitude that means moth
ing more nor less. ultimately. than a
| clash of the armed forces of North
| Carolina and of the United States, but
| they admit that the danger of such a
conflict becomes more threatening the
| longer a peaceful solution of the diff
Guilty is postponed.
1t is felt here that the next "a hours
| must determine whether the federal
and state authorities are to engage in
a physical contest.
The understanding here is that
Governor Glenn has not finally de-
posed by Assistant Attorney Sanford
of the department of justice, who is
really the personal representative of
President Roosevelt in North Car
DINA, but that he simply will not
commit himself to them until he has
weighed every feature of the propos-
ed compact carefully. If it should
turn out that the governor has abb
solutely and unequivocally refused to
accept the terms as is indicated In
some of the dispatches. then the mat
ter takes on an alarming phase.
The step between this point and where
the use of United States deputy mar
shals might be asked by Federal Judge
Prltchard to enforce the DEGREES of his
court is but a short one. He would ask
the United States marshal for the dis
trict In which he holds court for assist
ance- The marshal would make an at
tempt to make the mandates of the
court effective. and if he should find his
force insufficient to cope with the stu
alton he could call on the department of
justice for authority to swear in posse
of deputy marshals.
There is little question that Attor-
ney General Bonaparte would grant
this authority. If the men thus
sworn in were incapable of handling
the matter the next step would be the
calling out of United States troops
to quell what then could be called a
rebellion in one of the states of the
union.
While the federal officials are 10th
to believe that 1t will be necessary to
go to such lengths, they say that 1t is
up to the state authorities alone to
decide whether it shall be peace or
war in North Carolina.
The talk of the impeachment of Judge
Pritchard is not taken seriously here
although 1t is discussed among lawyers
as remote possibility. The very fact
that there is a wide divergence of opin-
ion among these gentlemen themselves
as 10 WneIner or not Judg Pr1tchard eX-
ceeded his constitutional powers in the
handling of the North Carolina matter,
furnishes an index as to the chance
there would be of convicting him under
impeachment proceedings.
Peace Conference Fails.
Asheville, n. c., July 26.-Assistant
United States Attorney Sanford spent
part of today in conference with rail-
road officials and with Judge Pritch-
ard. He was expected to leave this
afternoon. He will report to Wash
ington that his effort to restore peace
was fruitless. .-3
Judge Lyon, of the supreme court |
is holding the grand jury in session
at Marion and it is stated it has re-
ported a true bill against the ticket |
agent at Marion. Several supreme |
court judges have ignored the subject |
of a conflict between the federal and |
state courts. and Judge Fred Moore |
a dvised against further indictments of |
ticket agents. Judge Lyon, however, |
declared the ticket agents were violat- /
ing a criminal statute and should be |
indicted, like a pig or horsethief."