Show ATTORNEY GENERAL mr miller makes bis annual report condition of the judicial department of conr country dec 5 attorney gen eral miller in his annual report saya vigilant efforts have been made to enforce the legislation excluding chinese immigration K the cooperation co operation ef the treasury department it is believed moat attempt fl to cross the border have been frustrated as have attempts to erinc chinese directly through to ports of the united states upon the pacific in regard to the reorganization of the judiciary it is earnestly hoped that the legislation now far advanced will not be permitted to fail in regard te the difficulty of enforcing the law the at torney central says the enforce ment of the internal revenue laws nd united states election laws is portical arly resisted several assassinations of officers with the of impeding the execution of the laws and orders of the United States occurred during the past year within the last tea days a deputy marshal attempting to serve a warrant for the arrest of a man for violating the postal law was shot and instantly killed by the man sought to be arrested and on the preliminary examination buforo a magistrate of the state the prisoner was promptly discharged if is certainly an anomaly in government that those who have committed murders fur the purpose of stopping prosecution in the federal courts should not only not be punished but not even be put upon trial in the state courts 80 ion as persons who kill officers witnesses or jurors for the purpose ef escaping the administration of justice cannot be tried and punished in a federal court as for minor ef lenses the administration of united states laws and the laws themselves in many districts will hay little respect the supreme coart recently decided there is a peace of the united states it is duty of the congress 10 provide by law for tho preservation of this deaca everywhere and at all times in prosecutions for violations of election laws in several districts conviction and pleas of guilty have been obtained in a large number of caca As an illustration however of the difficulties met in suck prosecutions the district attorney for one district reports that in a certain county a number of whose citizens were convicted of violations of the election laws the county court ordered all abo fines and coeta assessed against them in the united stales court to be paid out of the county treasury and in another county a number whose citizens in liae manner were convicted or plead guilty of such of lenses in a united states court 1300 was actually paid out of the county treasury upon each fines and costs in me clay these facts speak for themselves |