The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-22
DIGNITY OF COURT
 HAS BEEN THREATENED
Federal Jurisdiction Lost Prestige In the North Carolina Cases and a Repetition of Such Acts
 Is Not Wanted
BY PATTERSON sTEALEY.

Washington, August 21.-(Special )-- The telegram of the attorney general to District Attorney Parsons Of Ala bama makes 1t clear that it Is the in tention of the federal department of justice to insist upon the observance of all orders issued by the judges of fed eral courts. In some quarters the dis patch of MT. Bonaparte to District At torney Parsons is regarded as an of ficial hint to all federal judges that the strong arm of the federal goverf1- ment will be behind them in any order which they may issue.
 It is stated here that the department is not interested so much in the charac~ ter of the litigation or in the person. alty of the parties to the litigation as it is assured by the federal courts that the mandates handed down by them will be obeyed and that if necessary all orders from federal courts requiring executive" enforcement will be en- forced without regard to cost or con- sequences.
 North Carolina Case.
 This was the attitude of the attorney general and of the administration at the time of the clash between the state governments and the federal courts in North Carolina. as result of Judge bPritchard's order protecting the sot th = fern railway and Governor Glenn's att titude toward Judge Pritchard. The administration was then prepared to enforce Judge Pritchard's orders, without regard to cost consequences, - but the conferences between Governor Glenn and the Southern railway officials during the visit of Assistant District At torney General Sanford to North Caro- lima resulted in the Southern no longer insisting on the observance of Judge Pritchard's restraining order in the face of Governor Glenn's vigorous attitude It is hnted here that the administration was chagrined over the so-ealled sur render of the railway officials to Cover nor Glenn and that this feeling has been especially keen since. Following the lead of the North Carolina compro- mise, Virginia, Alabama and otherstates have taken almost exactly the same ac- ton.
 Federal Judges Busy.
 Within the last six months federal judges in nearly dozen states have been called upon to pass upon appica- tions for injunctions in which railway corporatlons sought to restrain the ob-
 
 servance of the new two cent fare laws. The Judges have in nearly all the cases issued orders restraining state interter- ence with existing rates pending hnai adtudication of the cases. In some CIT cles 1t Is felt that the dignity of the federal courts has been threatened by the compromises that have been effected in the face of orders issued by the courts.
 Administration officials hold that the issue cannot be long eVaded and that the federal government cannot too firm Iy intimate that all orders of federal judges. regardless of the character or the controversies of the parties to the suits, must be vigorously enlorceu' Whatever the ultimate effect of the pub lication of Attorney General Bonaparte official telegram to District Attorney Par sons. it Is bound to have the immediate effect of strengthening the position or all federal judges confronted with possl- bia resistance to their orders by state