The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-06-28
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Gem
eral Topics from
the Capital.
Special Correspondence to the Citizen. }
Washington, June 25, 1912.

special Correspondence to the Citizen.)
Washington, June 25, 1912.
President Taft received telegrams from
every State and Territory of the Union
and from abroad on his denomination in
Chicago, in less than two hours after the
result OF the vote was announced. To
many OF them the President dictated
replies.
Charles d. Hllles. Secretary to Pres-
dent Taft, at the Presidents request,
will be chosen Chairman of the Repub-
lican National Committee, when it meets
in Chicago Mr.. Hilles did much polit-
ical work in Mr. Tait's interest in the
pre-convention campaign.
Congressman w. B. Mckinley. who
has managed the Presidents campaign,
was mentioned for the Craftsmanship, but
he refused to have his name mentioned.
81 cannot give the time to the position
that should be given to it, he said. "As
Chairman OF the Congressional Commit
tee, have all that can attend to-"
The Clark, Wilson, Harmon and I'm
derwood forces are now in Baltimore,
and their headquarters are temporarily
deserted.
The present week sees Congress still
marking time for politics. With the
close OF the Democratic National Con-
vention both the Senate and the House
of Representatives will settle down to
business again.
The Senate will convene at 10. 30 a.
M, tomorrow, and in accordance with
the agreement among the leaders will
recess at once for about three DAYS
The House of Representatives will CON
vene at noon. Democratic leader I'm
derwood has announced that it too will
take a three day recess during the Balti-
more Convention.
About dozen of the big supply bills
are stacked up and awaiting action. APP
propriations now in force expire on June
goth. An agreement between the House
and the Senate to extend them into the
new fiscal year until the big bills are
passed is not impossible.
Samuel GomperS, Frank Morrison and
John Mitchell, the labor leaders, were
again held guilty of contempt of Court
by the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia, in connection with the
Courts injunction in the Bucks Stove &
Range boycott case. They will attempt
TO appeal again to the Supreme Court OF
the United States, which reversed their
former conviction.
Justice Wright sentenced GomperS to
one years Imprisonment, the same as
upon his previous conviction, and Nor
nson to nine months. Ohm Mitchell
was not present and sentence upon him
was deferred. His first sentence was
six months.
Justice Daniel Thew Wright an
nounced the decision of the Court 1t
covered II closely typewriter pages and
it took about two hours to read it.
In passing sentence on President Com
pers the Court said:
For the ringleader and chief offender
the duty of the Court if it be ascertained
by its obligations to administer the Just
ice of the land, without regard to per
sons requires it in determining pen
atty appropriate for this the most dan
gerous and destructive of contempts, at
least to parallel the extreme penalty
which is fixed by good precedents."
After lengthy recital of the functions
of the law and judicial power, the opin-
ion concludes:
THE evidence shows for these re-
spondents an assiduous and persistent
effort to undermine the supremacy of the
law by undertaking insidiously to de-
stroy the confidence Of the people in the
integrity OF the tribunals which maintain
it by inoculating the minds of their fol-
lowers and the people with a virus of
mischievous falsehoods and misrepre-
sentations concerning the Courts and the
| Judges, seeking and hopeful that the
support Of the people might be with
drawn from these tribunals, and by this
means their power undone, their iudg-
ment rendered valueleSS and forceless.
The defendants are here at the Court
bar to answer; they have been afforded
| full opportunity to hear the evidence
against them, and TO say what, if any,
reasons can exist against their punish
ment. Every part of their respone, for
| they offer no defense, is measured by the
words Of their leader, Gompers: "The
things that ! am charged with | did.
| Go to - with your iniunCtionS."
| BondSmen were on hand and attor-
! neyS for the labor men gave notice OF
their intention to file an appeal to have
the Supreme Court review the Judgment.
| In its previous review of the case the
| Supreme Court reversed the conviction
on the ground that the contempt pro-
ceedings had been improperly instituted.
| New proceedings were at once begun.
! The sentences under the first con-
vlctionS were: GomperS, one year; Nor
rison, nine months; Mitchell six months.
The charge was that the three men as
| officers of the American Federation of
Labor, through the organizations official
publication, had disregardeI Justice
Goulds injunction against the publica
ton of the Bucks Stove & Range Com
pany's name in its I'VE don't patronze"
list
After Gompers had been sentenced he
attacked the decision, declaring that,
while Justice Wright lives in our time
his decision and sentences disclose a
mental concept of more than two CEN
turies ago, when the workman was
either slave or serf. F"
Information has just came to me that
the decision was completed more than
month ago but it was withheld until
after the close of the Chicago Republican
National Convention. If true, the infer
ence is obvious"
Mt. st. Joseph's Academy, Near