| Show BY lidy telle TELIE TELEGRAPH GRAPH erk eek rem ree myrn IMM t AMERICAN CAN oan washington 25 in ids annual report attorney pe general eral brewster s suggests u that all accounts of chief supervisors of elections election st be taxed in appen court under the inspection and examination of the district attorney and his sworn assistant and they must then be lor warded to the proper department for further examination and reduction if deemed advisable and necessary these election laws are of the highest importance to the general welfare and their proper execution Is i a prime necessity ces sity their abuse on the other hand Is a great public wrong to be guarard guarded against by appropriate legislation the attorney general directs the attention ot of 1 congress I to the yant want of ef proper le legislation for criminal cases in prep preparing arlig indictments he says for offenses against the united states it is found foun d necessary to follow the com coni mon law forms of the last century with witti all their technicalities verbosity descriptions repetitions and precise statements formerly required whereby that which should be a simple and concisely w written bitten accusation becomes a lengthy and painfully confused mass of descriptions and allegations wholly unintelligible to the defendant who Is called upon to answer or to the jury selected to try the case to reduce the pleadings to a plain lain iain and comprehensive statement of facts facts would serve equally to the advantage of the government and to defend ant and there is no reason wh why ya an n indictment ou ought ht not to be adjudged buoo sufficient lelent aniF and good in law which makes its iti its charges of crime substantially in the language of the act prohibiting the crime and prescribing or sp plainly that the nature of theof the 0 sense charged maybe easily understood by the jury when it if Is necessary sai saly y to describe rw or make ayer averment ment to any written or printed instrument as the law now stands such instrument must be copied into an indictment with a literal exactness equal to a photographic reproduction the omission of a word that appears almost hindls the lines and flourish flourishes ts created by the skill of the engraver or penman would be a fatal defect that might enable the guilty man to escape punishment the attorney general points out the evils of omissions and defects in the present law in eases of murder manslaughter larceny demur it motions to q and submits the dratt of a bill designated to anford arford a remedy in connection with the subject of jury duty he says it is the belief and common re lenort rt that the business of jury nixing fixing nourishes to an alarming extent in this district it Is ascertained that men live and support their families and even become rich in the practice of this nefarious profession As aa the jury system now exists that unscrupulous men should safely conduct a lucrative business in the debauching debau ching of juries in the district should occasion cosur no surprise with but twenty six jurors such as usually servie an active jarv fixer would become acquainted wit with at least two or three of them in a few hours and that would give him a strong beginning in his efforts to thwart justice with but twenty six jurors servi serving wis fis for three months it would not require one third of that time I 1 a jury fixers to aco acquaint faint the habits association characters and business of each juror and vat rbt wot fm 4 A 4 v the influences if any that could be used to reach him and bring himwich him within their power then awa aga again 1 in what I 1 is s there to prevent one or more well dressed and apparently respectable res looking rogues placing themselves in the way of the mars marshal marshai cr his de deputit deputies to bc brought into court as tal esmen and serving upon juries to acquit their friends or confederates the attorney general recommends that the jurisdiction of the U S cir culland cult tand mand district courts forthe judicial district of maryland be extended for the purpose of securing trial in such courts and before juries drawn from the entire state of maryland aryland Al of cases involving crimes commit committed in the district of columbia against the united states the national treasury he says is the great centre of allurement and temptation inroads are made upon it through all the avenues by which it it can be approached all plans to defraud the tho government no matter where contrived are mostly consummated in washington and when the guilty parties are arrested their trial must of necessity essit take place before a jury drawn in district the arrest ai rest of one set of defendants brings to them the sympathy and active aid of all others engaged in similar schemes if the defendants are wealthy as is often the case by the liberal expenditure of money they secure the acquaintance and friendship of prominent men who are of social disposition and whose open and public association and companionship panion ship with defendants is not without its helpful effect when the case is called for tor trial the gove government stands alone and opposed by many disadvantages while the defendants aided not only by their wealth and the encouragement and influence of their friends but by a certain feeliks of indifference which seems to prevail in washington concertin concerning such crimes are permitted to depart from the he court room triumphing in their acquittal escaping p punishment unish ment and scandalizing the administration of justice such has been the case before aad such will occur again so long as tile the national treasury is con confided tided solely to the protection of local juries the attorney general renews his recommendations that the system of paying payin U S marshals be changed from fees ito to salaries and that additional legislation be had to protect the executive and civil officers cers of the government in berf performing arming their duties and against outrages committed upon them because they have faithfully performed them attention Is called to the fact that the legislature of utah refuses to appropriate prop funds for forthe the execution of the territorial laws under congressional legislation it if this legislation is s to be maintained he says a special appropriation must be made madd annually to meet the demands of justice EXECUTIVE OFFICE WESTERN unos UNION TELEGRAPH co NEW YORK nov 25 1884 to the public now since the presidential election is settled and the excitement cit ement incident to a close political contest has abated it is proper to show most conclusively the utter groundlessness of all the charges char a against ast t the e western estern union telegraph ele eie graph com company an of parti partiality alit allt y in report reporting n g or with withholding 01 ing the election returns odthe of the state of new york I 1 deny in the most emphatic manner that the western union company delayed altered or withheld the election returns of this state or any other state or tampered with them in any way it had nothing whatever to do with the returns of the state ot of new york except to transmit them over its own lines as prepared by the associated press alf all alf ait tile tiie compiling was done in its office by its own agents and all bulletins were prepared PYe pared by it and copies were simply delivered to mr nir somerville superintendent perin of the newspaper service for general distribution to the public bublic this company had nothing to do 0 with making up th the bulletins ncr npr did any officer or agent or other person connected with or dr interested in this company except the operators who transmitted the returns have access to or see sec any of them till the bulletins had been made up in the associated pre press Rs office and handed to us for public distribution and I 1 have no BO reason to believe that the agents of the associated press acted otherwise than in any other important matter ordinarily many of our officers are not kept open for business after 8 p in to assist in nie nit meeting eting the extraordinary expense of the extra employment of several thousand night operators ope we have had for many years arrangements with the press associations giving us the privilege le e of selling bulletins to political and social clubs and other subscribing customers we simply took the associated press bulletins as that tion had made them up and delivered them as heretofore to customers who had bad subscribed for tor them nothing more the charge that returns were purposely withheld or that there was unusual delay in reporting them is entirely tir 1 ly false instead of such delay there e was extraordinary promptness never before have reports from so many election districts been received with within io 0 short a time within 48 hours after the count of ballots begun returns were received from 98 percent of the election districts in the state although the tho night of the election was stormy and there was some trouble in working the wires no delay occurred in any reports handed to our offices outside the cit new vork mork and within phd city the telegraph service leq was s q ag nearly perfect as it was cwb 4 possible possible to make it and the only trou brou tie tle ble bie was with some of the short wires hastily erected for temporary use it Is here te tc be noted that thereafter the majorities reported from the most populous andia and therefore the most accessible counties have been no decisive that tile tiie popular mind had been set at rest est respecting the result of the election on the first night and there being n hope or fear ot of a change in the general result subsequent returns more or less tardy have straggled strangled in unheeded in two instances in this state I 1 have beba informed thattie that the county canvassers who met one week atter atten the election this year had to adjourn over because the county clerks had up to that time been unable to get the vote of their counties the only other returns complained of were those of indiana where at the request ot of the poetical pol committees and the press in tiie tile absence of rny ony agent of the associated press the reports coming through from any source were sent out by our superintendent mr J F who used every effort to obtain all the returns as speedily as possible I 1 consider consid erthe the demand for an investigation of that service made madd br by the indianapolis sentinel and aso also by mr fr himself reasonable and proper and I 1 have asked the chairman of the indiana democratic state committee to take part in the investigation or to name a representative to tb do so the management of this company in its business relation to the public is strictly nonpolitical non political and nonpartisan non partisan its employed emp loyes represent every shade of political opinion and are in the companas comp anys service solely y by virtue of their proficiency as telegraphers what their individual political opinions are has never never bee been n in any case called into question nor have their votes ever been canvassed or ascertained but of those with whom I 1 personally come in contact I 1 know that there are quite as many democrats as republicans it is therefore manifestly absurd to charge that the service of the company could be converted into a party machine or could in any wa way y distort or stifle the facts when such an tempted attempted ut conspiracy could only have been made by the aid of a large number of members of the political party which it was designed to injure GREEN greet president washington 25 the house rouse committee on appropriations met to today d dax day at the capitol to map out their wor work for next session chairman randall and ellis townsend follet and ryan were present and keifer hollman and forney were represented by others the estimates for the six annual bills b ills liis namely post postoffice office indian cons consular ulab ulai and diplomatic army navy and military academy were placed in the hands of subcommittees committees sub and it is expected that one or more of these measures will be in readiness for lon consideration by the whole committee when the session begins on monday the subdivision of the committee a as agreed today to day is as follows follow s legislative executive and judicial bill holman hancock and cannon sundry civil randall forney and ry ryan an army forney townsend and K kelfer keifer I 1 fe r navy hutchins randall and L long hong 0 ng townsend holman and horr indian ellis holman and ryan cons consular ularand and diplomatic burns townsend and washburne military academy kelfer keifer forney and ellis district of columbia randall burnes and long fortifications horr ellis and hancock randall will have a conference con terence with ele eie secretary of the navy tomorrow to morrow on the subject of navy appropriations for the final six months of the current fiscal year it is thought probable that last years appropriations will be con tinned for that period as was done last session for six months rom om july and that thus the question of making an appropriation for the proposed new cruisers on which the two houses cametra came to a deadlock last session will be left for the next con congress ress randall however would not ex express any opinion on that subject or as to any part of the policy of the committee remarking simply that he did not yet know what would be done I 1 I 1 lynchburg 25 the following is f from rom a well known preach preached eg in southwest virginia the latest advices advises concerning bernid the epidemic in wise lee libe dickson n and buchanan counties are i heartrending un on giesle river wise cou county rity lity within a radius of four miles are thirty cases of the disease in one instance the father mother and six children died many persons die for want of attention business is suspended all being concerned with the sick and dying six persons were burled buried in 0 one ne graveyard on onedas one day the disease Is assuming a milder form in some localities not less that of the best citizens of wise countr alone have died during the last few days the disease has made its appearance in lee county and several deaths have occurred A more lore worthy people never called more loudly f for or relief than these they need nurses medicines and a committee of intelligent physicians to diagnose the disease and stop its ter ble march |
