Show TELEGRAPHIO oc Star Bootes Discharged Washington 10In the criminal court this morning 1 Judge Cox rendered a decision in the star route cases discuss jag principally the question as to the infamy in-famy of the crime charged The conclusion con-clusion arrived at was that the crime was infamous and the accused should have been proceeded against by indictment indict-ment Be therefore sustained the motion expelling the information from the files of the court and ordered the discharge of the defendants Few in Washington were surprised at the decision of Judge Cox who grants the motion to strike off the information against the star route conspirators and discharge the defendants The courtroom court-room was crowded the audience being very largely composed of friends of the accused As soon as the judges decision was made Wm E Cook assistant to them attorney generals read a statpment which he had evidently prepared ih anticipation of the result He denied the statement of District Dis-trict Attorney Corkhill that the attorney general had been consulted by him in regard re-gard to the adjournment of the grand jury and claimed tho information had only been resorted to after the government govern-ment had been prevented from asking an indictment until after the statute of limitation limi-tation could have begun to operate on the part of the prosecution He promised prom-ised that the accused would not long be able to exult They would be brought before the grand jury and before the petit jury and they would have all the opportunity they apparently desired to defend themselves and upon proceedings proceed-ings against which no technical objection could be raised After the adjournment of the court the accused were congratulated congrat-ulated by their friends in the pcsloffice department The effect of Judge Coxs decision Is much discussed High officials assert that the effect is misunderstood misunder-stood that government is debarred from proceeding by fcdictment in the Walsh case but postoffice authorities deny this They say the fact that proceedings by information in-formation having been commenced satisfied the requirements of the statute pt limitation even through the prcce dings d-ings have been thrown out on technicalities technical-ities In addition it is alleered there are grounds for many indictments without touching the Walsh cases Public opinion here is however almost unanimous unani-mous that the failure of government is final as regards Brady He said the assassination as-sassination of t President occurred on the morning of the 2d of July Oa the Wednesday previous at the request of the President he had a conversation at the White House in regard to the star route cases After a full explanation the President expressed himself fully satisfied satis-fied with what had been done but urged that the cases be pushed as rapidly as possible It then bad been his Cooks intention to complete tho necesary preparations pre-parations and present the cases to the grand jury on its meeting in September On the Saturday followingthe nation and civilized world were shocked by the announcement an-nouncement that J amen A Garfield was assassinated All labor as a consequence had been suspended A week of anxiety followed The present President Arthur Ar-thur the attorneygeneral postmaster general in brief All the cabinet were overcome with grief almost paralyzed sorrow and trembling had been in all hearts The nation the world had wept feared hoped prayed the employees em-ployees engaged in the investigation of the records here and the procurement of witnesses had been able to do little effectual effec-tual l work With what propriety under the circumstances could it have been done by anyone It had only bean when the President and physicians gave strong hones of recovery that the I labor had been fully resumed The delay had been primarily and chiefly caused by the assassins bullet bul-let It had been unavoidably a human justifiable delay Resuming actively the investigation Messrs Brewster and Bliss had become connected with the case Several consultations had been held at Elberon at which he Cook was present He returned on the HHh of September so as to be here at the reassembling of the grand jury He had been immediately recalled to Elberon but on the 15th of September he hastened back to Washington Wash-ington to proceed with the case On the stops of the cars he was surprised with the statement that the grand jury had adjourned ad-journed The attorneygeneral was than at Elberon and could not hay known its purpose The adjournment had been without his concurrence knowledge or desire as it hud been without his Cooks notice from the distriet attorney nor from the grand jury nor from anybody alse had he Cook any notice of the proposed pro-posed recess directly nor indirectly It had been unwise and extraordinary The recess had been for a sufficient length of time to prevent an indictment of limitations limita-tions The emergency had existed and in order to prevent the positive failure of the case the prosecution determined to file an information Though in some cases an unusual proceeding it had been engaged as authorized and sanctioned by much approved practice Nothing else could have been done It had been said that on the slightest notice the grand jury could have been reassembled it bad been adjourned from the 14th of September until the 3rd of October only remaining in session two days without any arrangement arrange-ment for reassembling The recess had be < m absolute nor had he at nny time received an intimation that the grand jury could have been reassembled He hart first heard that in this court on Monday last The attorney general sad district attorney did not agree as to what pared between them He the attorney general was net in the habit or noticing statements state-ments made in reference to him or authorizing it to bu done He Cool wa as regards he tar route cases the immediate legal recognized representative tive of government and in no manner or by no person had he beer consulted as to the recess of the grand jury Its movements and intentions if not Concealed from him were unknown from the day of his unsolicited employ ment by the United States as a jurist on June 1st up to this hour he having devoted de-voted most of his time to star route casee The labors on his part and on the part of his associates were even far more than known to any one There has been no incidental delay There would be none sustained by the administration and its superior officers The case in whatever term the court might approve would be carried or on until the guilt or innocence of the accused parties should be proven to the jury governed by the rules of law which might be enunciated by the court The court then adjourned |