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Show THE BILL. NOT UNDERSTOOD. A Bolted 8Ut. Attorned EipLtntthe Pro-,, Pro-,, visions of the Force Bill. Dallas, Tex., Aug. 29.-In ao interview inter-view with the St. Louis Globe-Democrat correspondent, EuKeno Marshall, United States district attorney, speaking speak-ing of the force bill, said: "A great deal of unnecessary fuss is being made over the federal election bill by those who bave not read it and do not under-staod under-staod its provisions. Nevertheless, I think it was a wise move to postpone it, since there is a tendency all over the country to accept the fact of its introduction intro-duction in congress as evidence that the republican party ueeded to pass it in order to maintain its supremacy. This in my opinion is not so. We have elected our ticket without it heretofore, and will be able to do so in 1H93. without with-out invoking its aid. The present election elec-tion laws, were they invoked, are even more vicious than the force bill. It only takes threo citizens to invoke them. An attempt was made to do so in St. Louis four years ago, and Judge Treat, of the Lnited States district court, and Judge Brewer, of the United States circuit court, had a row over it. The appointment of 500 deputy United States marshals was asked for to preserve pre-serve peace at the general election, in addition to 1000 special policemen appointed ap-pointed by the city police authorities. Judge Brewer favored it, but Judge Treat informed him that he, as district judge, would have to pass upon the marshal's accounts and that ho would not approve them. I have never known the law invoked in Texas hut once, and that was in behalf of Mills in the Corsi-cana Corsi-cana district." |