The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-18
FEAR KIDNAPPED
 BOY IS MURDERED
Italian Disorders Subside In New Or leans-Search of Homes and
 Arrests Abandoned.

New Orleans, June 1.-The Italian dis orders and threats of lynching in New Orleans entirely subsided today. A secret and well organized effort to track the kidnapped Lamana boy by the regular detective force has take the place of the clustering search of private houses by un- authorized crowds and the rushing of spe- clal trains with armed deputies aboard to towns suspected of harboring the kid napers, all of which characterized last weeks search and made part of it a useless display. Wholesale arrests of Ital- fans have stopped.
 The police express fear that the La mana boy has been killed, but say they have clews enough to be fairly sure of securing him if the child Is still alive. The Lamana family has arranged for special mass with prayers for the boy s recovery.
 
 other question is efficient service Rapid and prompt delivery of freight must be had. Fast passenger trains with but few stops for passengers going a consld- erabe distance is demanded. Local trains for local business are required. To have these reasonable compensation must be paid. So that these questions are in- |
 ness as Is between St. Louis and St.
 Joseph, Kansas City and St. Joseph, Kan
 sas City and Joplin and perhaps other
 points where parts of the routes of some
 of the lines are out of the state a grave question Is presented and no small ques-
 ton whether parts of these statues are
 void that the matter can be separated
 and the balance of the statute remain in force because congress even as to those lines wholly within the state may or may
 not have control of such commerce when it directly interferes with commerce pass
 ing out of and back into the state. neither pass upon this question nor ex- press an opinion thereon. because, while
 such questions have frequently been dis
 cussed by the ablest of men, such ques-
 tlons have not yet been decided I simply
 mention 1t as q great national question.
 Criminal Courts.
 Tit is urged with much plausbility. that because penalties are affixed to the
 statutes of 1907. that the criminal courts of the state only take Jurisdiction. l do
 not stop to review the various Missouri
 statutes upon the subject of both pas
 sengers and freight, all of which must be construed as in pari matrla.
 .'The attorney general and railroad commissioners will have much to do with these statutes. In the original cases the question was whether all the earnings In the aggregate were remunerative That question is still present under the statutes of 1907. Whether these laws by
 raising the freight rates and lowering the passenger fares are remuneratiye in l the aggregate must be considered by the court. The state is not in effect a party because the charge Is that these officers are seeking to enforce statutes in more
 ways than by infiicting penalties
 .rhe orders heretofore made will stand until vacated or modified. The cases will | be set down for hearing as to whether a | temporary injunction shall issue, and. if 1 issued what shall be the scope; shall | they restrain the enforcement of the | recent freight rate statute? Shall they restrain the enforcement of the rcent two | cent passenger rate statute? Tentatively, | subject to argument and subject to | change of opinion, If I should hear the | cases my present view Is that the two | cent passenger fare statute should be | put in force and kept in force for some l months. at least, with the right of the 1 railways later on to renew their motions l to enioin the enforcement of the statute. '