Show ATTACK MADE ON FREEDOM OF THE PRESS I Six Washington Correspond Correspondents Summoned to Appear Before Grand Jury FIGHT AGAINST PULITZER MACHINERY MACHINE OF GOVERNMENT SQUELCH NEW NEWYORK NEWYORK NEWYORK YORK WORLD Washington Jan 16 Six Washing Washington ton correspondents of pa papers papers pers and lna a local news bureau b reau wert to today day subpoenaed to appear appear next week before federal grand jurors and testify test If presumably In connection conn cUo 1 with Uh state statements mints ments tn appearing In their publications bearing on the Panama canal canar purchase So o far as It has been possible to as ascertain ascertaIn ascertain certain these the only ones cited Otto Carmichael Charles Cha les S Ambert and E Jesse Conway of df the New York World James Jamea Hornaday Indianapolis Nw N Jeremiah er Ma Matthews New YorK Sun Harris Hanis M 11 Crist BrooklYn Eagle I and William Smith a newsboy or of Washington engaged in selling New NewYork NewYork NewYork York papers With the exception of ofIr Mr Ir Crist who is commanded to go goto goto to New York and present himself today before the federal grand jury the par parties parties parties ties are directed to appear before the federal grand grind jury of or the District of Columbia C next Tuesday Government the thO Complainant The World men also were directed to lo lobring bring with them th m flies files of the paper for September Sept October November and December 1908 In the case of the United States versus the Press Publish Publishing PublishIng ing company publishers of the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York World Thera There Is no doubt that the th subpoenas subpoena I all have to do with a suit for 11 li 1 I which It is believed has been brought by the government in New York against the World The Th publishers of the New York Tork Sun and the Indianapolis lis Its News Nes Mr Laffan Laff n and Delavan Smith were denounced denoun ed by the president In int A letter retter dated Dec Dee 1 last to William Dudley Foulke In his special message to congress of Dec 15 regarding the charges of corruption the president an announced announced pounced that the attorney general had under consideration the t f In which proceedings for libel Ubel against Joseph Pulitzer r publisher of the New Now York World Wand should be brought Nowhere In Inthe Inthe Inthe the annals of the government gov r has such sich action before been taken as the gov gOY government government suing for criminal libel hept Mes The fb president In his message S ge was most emphatic in saying sarIn tha lt tt should Ul not be left to a private tc the suit and was particular to s1 sTate slate te that he ha did dd not believe we ve should huld con concern concern concern cern ourselves with the particular mill who wrote the lying and libel libelous libelous ous editorials articles from correspond correspondents or articles s In the news columns The real offender Is Mr lIr Joseph Punt Pulitzer Pulitzer zer zero editor and proprietor of the World It therefore is Inferred Interred that the cor correspondents correspondents I respondents were summoned as wit wt witnesses I nesses and not with the tho ultimate Idea of making them codefendants cod All efforts to get any an Information re no regarding regarding garding the statute under which th tho the suit suU has been brought failed Leak Prevented That every effort was made to pre prevent prevent prevent vent a leak In New York before the subpoenas were served is evidenced by the fact that Mr subpoena was directed to John JQhn Crist the tile in indorsement Indorsement Indorsement later latr lat r being written upon u On It that John was a a fictitious name The fact that Mr lr Crist Crit has been ordered to appear In Ne Tork Is regarded as evi evidence evidence evidence dence that If u any purpose had been en entertained entertained entertained to bring sn iu such h an action in New York state courts it had been abandoned abs Grand jur proceedings In the Dis District District District of Columbia are always conduct conducted ed with the t e greatest secrecy y Additional Interest is lent to the ease case caseby ca e eby by the presence pre n Here of William WHILST Nel Nelson el elson son Cromwell who ho represented th tM the canal company In the n g with the tho government Several attempts wen were made to reach him at his hotel but ut all callers were informed that he was not in ORDERS TO SHOW CAUSE Subpoenas May M y Be Quashed by Court Courtin in i iI New Nc York New N w York wan Jan 16 The WI from Washl Washington don that members rn of or the New World staff In Washington ami an another other correspondents there have been be n summoned summon d to testify before federal grand j presumably in conn with published statements statement nearing bearing OR on the Pan Panama Panama ama canal purchase was received d here hereafter hereafter hereafter after United States District Attorney Stimson and his associates had bad left th he federal for the day It was leara that sub had been JI served on J 2 1 Angus Shaw and William P McLoughlin respectively secretary I and an 1 editor of 1 o sports and ath athletics l tics of the Pr Publishing company publishers of the World requiring them Continued on n Page 2 I ATTACK MAE MADE MAEON I ON FREEDOM OF THE PRESS Continued from Page 1 to appear before the federal grand Jury I here on Monday I Statement by the World The World made the statement regard regardIng regardIng Ing the tle subpoenas issued here hee Subpoenas wre rf servos served today on wit Wil William witHam liam Ham P McLoughlin editor of sports and athletics of the Press Publishing com corn company compan pany pan and on J 3 Angus Us Shaw secretary tafT of the company requiring r them to attend on the lt day of January 1909 1009 at 1030 1031 In the forenoon before the United States grand jury to testify all and everything which you TOU may know kno generally on the part of or the Unite i States I Subpoenas in this form fonn seem unprecedented unprecedented dented in the history hi of ot criminal law Jaw lawIt lawIt I It being thus apparent a p on the taos fac nf these subpoenas that that a general investigation investigation gation gatlon Is sought in any an and all 1111 subjects of or which the witnesses have hae any Infer Information Information mation without mth ut requiring that such in investigation be given in a proceeding un UD under UDder under der Investigation by the grand jury as required by law Ja and it being thus clearly clearl a n mere fishing excursion on the part of ef the government orders to 10 show how cause have been obtained returnable Judge Ward ard on Monday morning at 3 why subpoenas should not be quashed |