Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-06
4, McSureIy Waits to Try
While Seaman Hears
Lawyers.
ASKS HABEAS CORPUS
Arguments Take All Forenoon
and Judge Takes Matter
Under Amusement.

Chicago, June 6. - Lee ONeil
Browne, accused of completely in the
alleged payment of bribes for votes TO
elect Senator Lorimer faced two courts
today, and the possibility that in the
clash of jurisdiction an appeal would
be taken to Governor Deneen as COM
mander of the state militia.
Before Seaman Early.
Long before tie regular hour of or
binary judicial proceedings Browne
this morning was taken before Judge
Scanlan in habeas corpus proceedings
to determine, if possible, the question
of jurisdiction concerning the proposed
arraignment of the defendant today
for trial by jury in another state trib-
unal here presided over by Judge Nc
Surely, Brownies attorneys argued to
Scanlan that the offense charged was
one entirely for the federal courts
Hanecy is Late.
The fight for Browne was started by
Attorney James Hartnett in the alb
sence of former Judge Hanecy, who
was to have opened the arguments.
The speaker declared fatty that the
state of Illinois had no power to try
Browne and that if any offense had
been committed the misdeGd was
against the United States. The prose
cution was represent by States Attor-
ney Wayman.
Principle of Law.
TT is principle of Law that an of
- fofA
statutes cannot be tried int state
court" Attorney Hartnett asserted.
eff the state has similar statute COW
ering such offenses 1t cannot be ap-
Piled when the offense is against the
United States law
At this juncture Hanecy entered and
lost no time in entering the fight.
Defendant Not Present.
At 10 O'Clock, the time scheduled for
the opening of Brownies trial before
Judge McSurely in the criminal court,
Hanecy was still arguing on the ha-
beas corpus proceedings in Judge
Scanlan's court, A panel of 100 spe-
cial veniremen to qualify as jurors in
the Browne trial and a few bailiffs
were the only ones present in Nc
Judge McSurely appeared at 1915,
but neither Browne nor the attorney
for the prosecutor was present. The
defense, however, was represented by
Attornys Forrest and Erbstein, who
had no part in the argument before
Scanlan
Hanecy Takes Plenty of Time.
At II o'clock Hanecy was still pre-
senting his argument. States Attor-
ney Wayman raised an objection to
the length of time Hanecy had been
talking Hanecy replied that the long
list of authorities he had quoted had
been an answer TO question from the
court A short argument between
Wayman and Hanecy followed and
then Honey continued his argument
for 90 minutes more. Wayman imme-
diately began his reply for the state.
At noon McSurely's court adjourned.
Brownies case will be called at q
o'clock this afternoon if the writ of
habeas corpus is denied by Scanlan. |
Wayman is Brief.
Wayman's reply lasted less than an
hour. Wayman devoted the greater
part of his reply to answering Hanec- |
US argument that ordinarily legisla- |
tors are creatures of the state, but in |
joint assembly are creatures of the |
federal government Hanecy answered |
the states argument as soon as Way !
man concluded his reply. At the con- |
clusion of the arguments Scanlan took |
the case under advisement until to- !
morrow.