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Show WILL BE GIVEN FREEDOM. Two Hundred Men Confined in Fed- H cral Penitentiaries Will Be Be- Hj leased Under Decision of Court. 1 HJ St I.ouls, peb 10 pmnbllshel prrce- HJ denls of the United Rlnte army were M overtlrown an 1 the freedom nf nearly 200 men niw cnnllned In Pedenil pentlten- tlarl s wns nssiirrd by n der (Men rendered tH b) the United Males Circuit ( nurt ot p- iM peals In. U In Iho rake) of Peter C Drm- M lug. a former Cnptuln of volunteeis. IH ngnlnst RoIkti M MeCliughiy. warden of IH lhe 1 edcrjl penltcnllnr) at 1 ort I. cavern- M worth H Ileuilng wn imprisoned on the sentento !H nf 11 court martial eenipise.1 of nlno regu- 11 lir olllcers convenesl he den W It Shaf- tM ler on Mlirell ."1 !' Din opllll ill of tho HI (lirnll Minn wrltini tn Jinlg W ill r H Hi H mio 111. Is tluu thn court inartlil which (HI scale misl I). mine act d In violation nt article 77 nf lhe iirtlrlesnf wir which pro- fH vldrs that olllcers of the PK'.imr army H sbill not bo 1 nnp 1 ni ti rlt on courts- miirtliil for the trill of ofllerrs and sol- dins of nth. r furred HI Ihn essential etJestlnn. ns stnted In Julgi Siinbirns opinion Is whether thn Mluntur urmv Is the sime ns the regu- lar urmv nr whethi r It Is one nt the nth. HI ir'ioicis' 1111 iitinneel In nrttele 77 'lliu o Inliui estiihlliiheii the fiut that the vol. uiiicer nnn) la at all times distinct from the ie v 1I111 iirni) H Utmlng will he released from the Port I eavenwnrth penlirentlnry vvtthtn sixty H da s. and nil other former members nf H the v ilunteer army who nro routine! In Pederal prisons nn semen es lnilicie.1 tiy M coiiriH marMiel of refftihir nllleerH will also tn llberutcd ns thn usult of lolly s deel slon It Is stnted E A Hosier, fulled Hi rttntes District Altorue). estimates the H number nf sui Ii c is s at lift H Demtng was a I uplnln In tlie subsist. H encei department of the volunteer army lln wns coininltisloiicd under thn act of H IicjO provlillnk for he enlistment of sol- tlltrs for the I'hlllpilne war Thn churka agilnsl him re I lie I In hln ue counts The reiurt-inartul dismissed Demlng from tho service nnd sinliliinl I1I111 to thieo years In lhe iinltenii ir this sentence wns at- i llrmed b) the Keeretarj of ur and up. B pnivoil b) thoPrislelcnt H lu June 1V9S Jiidke Advncnto acuernl I Ii In di 1.1. 1 thit rig ilar nnny officer inlRht try volunteers under thn act nt B licis, provlillng for the enlUtmcnt nt sol. H tilers foi lhe e mlrh war Under this KJJ ruling many . is were tried and sen. tene s tint west 1 he Tieinlug ensn was the Inst In which an tippeAl w is taken 1 In uis onlnlun Juduu HuiiIm rne snys that Oen Shnftei wns prohlbllid by the luws i 1 f ihn United Hlutea from ronstltutlnie the Ucnilrn.- court mil. lul of r-Kutur army of. B Peers and thit the action of such u tfl. bunnl Is void M |