Show MORE BRIBERY f INVESTIGATION G Grind nd Jury Summoned to Look Loek After fter Missouri Legislature r PlAN pAI r TALK BY Y THE JUDGE JUDGEr f f SHOULD lB TO m I I j N CITY Mo lo March arch a ZI aI ZIL ILi I L Pe Pap newspaper lJ and an Cote cole senate I wIo wets were w committed to Sal last lut contempt tempt of the house boua of rep ES in ba refusing to answer as to where and for what they u cams cerns Into T 1 so of le 1 each were released by the su au supreme I prom preme court nourt today on a writ of ol habeas corpus co The Tb investigation Int in the house grew out eMIt of oC charges of ot Bribery in con connection connect with the te enactment of certain legislation Page and nd who re to refused fused to answer an questions que put by tb the investigating committee were sent to t i Jail jd A writ rit of habeas babe corpus was w ap applied applied p plied piled for lor last week and today OdaY after II brief arguments argument Chief Justice Robin RobinSon Son lOa and lid Justice Gaunt ordered the re re I prisoners without retiring Judge JU Robinson bt D stated S ed that t t t te the Wa was some e conflict in authority regard regarding ing tn ng habeas corpus In this case but the thereat great reat weight of authority appeared to the court to protect the witness and left lef it to the witness to judge Judae for himself him ael self I as to what questions question he be should Id or should not answer In discharging the prisoners the court held beld that they could stand on their constitutional I rights and protect themselves Grand GraBel Jury in ia Session I Before the legislature I ture adjourned sine die at noon ft today Judge Hasell of ot the I Cole Co county circuit court convened the th I grand jury jur in special al session sean to levee investigate the charges er of ot which have hav b been openly ol made against t the leg legislature lc legIslature I ture I Judge Hn instructions to the th I grand Dd jury cover e r twenty typewritten pages e He said In part pr I You are ar summoned in la extraordinary I session sulon that tt you y may y investigate eec certain certin tate tain tin matters which have been b brought broucht to t the th attention of o the te public through tar recent rt developments la lathe the house bo of representatives of the tb state tte of ut Missouri It I has hal been charged upon the floor fr of ot the th house bu that tat there were being practiced ted dishonest methods in securing sur certain legislation pending before that body by and these th matters will wi be b taken take up by you and carefully investigated Duty Dut te to 1 Be e Performed hYo You will wi not n t be b deterred deter treat fram tm per performing p performing forming that tt duty because c there Utere is a threat hanging over the citizens of Jefferson Ien and Cole county in refer reter reference I ence ae to the tl removal of the th from your midst The T hones h t people ppl residing rd residing ing InK in la Missouri will not permit the i Mtr wi n pit cap capital i ii i hal ital to be b removed rem ved front from t our city and county simply because Mu you have hav done I I your duty in investigating the te charges I made ma mad against an legislators Ito or o bring b them tm to the bar l of public justice Ju if it you y I should wrong IU find I that tt they t are re guilty cUty of ot any Instructions were also a given Yen to lures investigate luV Sabbath breaking the Ute operation of bucket bu ket shops ao gambling lotteries etc Thus far tar the tM following lac witnesses I have hav been summoned for fo examination Representatives Luig LuiL Leon Leonard Ln LeonaM ard aM ar and nd Collins Coln ail I of St St Louis Leuia Ll Ste Stephens Ste Stephens Reynolds and ad Scott of Jefferson efen City Cit Clerk Cleric Clr fo Cole Coie anC Hickox of the t senate correspondent and t I L L Page P a newspaper tk Breaking rk The T legislature ur was w in session essl yester yesterday yeter yesterday day closing up its It It business preparatory to t adjourning sine ne die de In the course e of that tt part of a the charge c relating to flab Sab Sabbath bath cUa desecration the judge said a So 1 that you o will wi take tk Into consideration cide tion tl whether the legislature doing do its I last lt work ok on Sunday Y is I compelled 4 to too perform o such sch labor abor Ir as a work of ot necessity ne sKy sity tr or o charity tb and a it I t is I very essential ent as M we will wi emphasize emphasise ep In this charge ebarp to toI I the t grand jury j that tt the Sabbath In a aI Christian land like li this th should RI be he I ob oh observed o I served Ire and n that tnt bad b examples in high quarters are detrimental to good gov goc government lt and a beget t ideas If and ad notions I that Ut are a at t variance vr with wit our ear ideas ld of o liberty br and nd good government I |