Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-10-21 | Page 3 | Question of Peonage up in Supreme Court

QUESTION OF PEONAGE UP JN SUPREME COURT WASHINGTON, Oct. L'O. Defend in jr the .south from tho charge of having reduced its great mass of laboring men to a condition con-dition but one step from peonage. Attorney At-torney General Oarbcr of Alabama today to-day In Iho supreme court of the United Slates made a spirited attack upon the federal department of justice. Attorney Attor-ney General Garber was defending the constitutionality of tho so-called labor eon I met law of Alabama. The validity of the law had arisen in an appeal of AI0117.0 nalloy, a. negro, from his conviction con-viction of a misdemeanor under that law. lie was charged with untieing a service contract with Intent to defraud his employers, em-ployers, receiving adanco money "and then breaking the contract. The department de-partment of justice had been permitted to Die a brief and to participate In tho argument of the case as a "friend of tho court." Mr. Garber expressed surprise that the "darts from the quiver of Attorney General Gen-eral Wlckcrsham and Assistant Attorney General 1 Iarrin" should have been drawn from without the enso rather than from facts within it Mr. Garber demanded what relevancy lo the caso at bar had a report taken from the tiles of tho department of jus-tire jus-tire on alleged practices In the state of Louisiana. Assistant Attorney General Ilarrin expressed ex-pressed a willingness to have the case tried on the facts in the record and then proceeded to make an argument to show how Bailey had been denied his rights under the federal constitution.